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Casey Finnerty

Probiotic Logic vs. Gut Feelings - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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shared by Casey Finnerty on 23 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Still, he added, taking them doesn’t seem harmful. “It’s a relatively low-cost treatment worth trying if you have a condition like Crohn’s disease,” he said. “But for most conditions, the potential benefit is uncertain.”
  • There is growing evidence for the role of the appendix in restoring a healthful balance of microbes in the body.
  • The challenge in taking probiotics is to get the microbes past the stomach, where most are killed by gastric acid, said Robert Dunn, a biologist at North Carolina State University. Once in the intestines, they must compete effectively with the microbes already present.
  • Nate Scheibe on 10 Aug 14
     
    I always wondered how the probiotics we get from yogurt etc. were supposed to make it past the stomach. If the stomach does indeed neutralize probiotics, does eating yogurt to prevent antibiotic associated diarrhea (for instance) really help?
Elijah Velasquez

Poultry probiotic cuts its coat to beat bad bacteria - 0 views

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shared by Elijah Velasquez on 30 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Elijah Velasquez on 30 Mar 13
     
    The probioitc L. johnsonii has the ability to alter its coat. The alteration protects the bacteria from stomach acids and helps them come together to form biofilms. This increases colonization within the gut and could prevent C. perfringens from colonising the gut. This is a very interesting approach and is comparable to the actions of natural flora within humans.
Whitney Hopfauf

Eczema in infants linked to gut bacteria - 0 views

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shared by Whitney Hopfauf on 30 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Eczema is a chronic inflammation of the epidermis
    • Whitney Hopfauf
      Whitney Hopfauf on 30 Apr 13
       
      The flora of the gut is being implicated in so many more diseases than ever before. I remember when the probiotic craze first started and now it has become common knowledge. Maybe we could someday treat eczema by repopulating the gut with bacteroidetes (at least in children)
  • The number of bifidobacteria naturally falls with age and in total we found 21 groups of bacteria which changed in this time period.
    • Whitney Hopfauf
      Whitney Hopfauf on 30 Apr 13
       
      I remember when I was growing up, my pediatrician put me on a special kind of milk that had extra probiotics in it to combat my constant ear infections. Maybe there was more validity to that than I realized.
  • early change towards adult-type bacteria which seems to be a risk factor for eczema
    • Whitney Hopfauf
      Whitney Hopfauf on 30 Apr 13
       
      I wonder what would happen in the reverse (if childhood bacterial flora was present in adults). I wonder if there is a pathology associated with that.
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  • gut bacteria
  • with or without eczema was examined when they were six and 18 months ol
  • normally
  • six months all the infants had the same types of bacteria but by 18 months old the children with eczema had more of a type of bacteria normally associated with adult
  • while the healthy children had a greater amount of Bacteroidetes.
Casey Finnerty

Bugs As Drugs - Phenomena: The Loom - 1 views

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microbiology microbiome

shared by Casey Finnerty on 10 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • “In 15 years, we will all be drinking specific, personalized probiotic cocktails. I suggest that every healthy person freezes a fecal sample now so they will be able to treat themselves in the future.”
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