Really? My microbiome might influence how smart I am? Well, consider this- those of us who have Fusicatenibacter in our gut generally score higher on verbal and mathematical testing. And if we had Oxalobacter, we score lower. But, how definitive is that?
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Here’s a company you probably never heard about. LNC Therapeutics, founded in 2010. But, if they keep up their developments, you will.
A computational biologist, Arnau Vich Vila, presented his PhD research at the United European Gastroenterology conference in Barcelona (October 2019). His paper, coauthored with his PhD advisor, Rinse K Weersma at the University Medical Center at Groningen, along with co-authors from Groningen (Netherlands), as well as from the Maastricht University Medical Center (also from the Netherlands) , discussed the effects of various drug categories on the patency of our gut microbiome.
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Breastfeeding. A practice that has come back into vogue once again. After years of companies attempting to sell their version of nutrition for babies.
He was about the only scientist I knew that didn’t covet the Nobel Prize. Sure, he won every (ok, almost every) other honor (deservedly so) available- but still.
Continue reading Stanley Falkow, A”H