Modern life has brought great progress. But it has also shrunk our rainbow of microbes. Many experts think this reduction in diversity may contribute to autoimmune disorders including asthma and allergies. Communities of people who live close to the earth through hunter-gatherer lifestyles may resemble each other in microbiome makeup more than their urban neighbors […]
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Gestational Diabetes: A Role for Probiotics?
Do you know your BMI? Your body mass index is a number perhaps more predictive for individual health than the one on your birthday cake. It is easy to figure: weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters (kg/m2). Use this online calculator compliments of National Institutes of Health in the United […]
Pumping the Well with Probiotics
Cheap petrol at the pump makes most people happy, but oil workers may be less joyous. Researchers at Iranian medical facilities set up an experiment to see if probiotics would affect mental status in some of these workers. Fossil fuel prices were not a variable. Ali Akbar Mohammadi and colleagues published “The effects of probiotics […]
Stars of Inner Space
Symposium sɪmˈpəʊzɪəm : a conference or meeting to discuss a particular subject. a collection of essays or papers on a particular subject by a number of contributors. a drinking party or convivial discussion, especially as held in ancient Greece after a banquet (and notable as the title of a work by Plato). Before Twitter, LinkedIn, […]
Fermented Foods Lost to New Generations in South Africa
Fermented foods are not new. Staples of our diets since prehistory, fermented foods reduced spoilage, added a flavorful zest to dishes and were suspected of enhancing health. All true, it turns out, thanks to the growth of microbes. Yet countries emerging from poverty often forget about traditional foods in their rush to adopt a western diet. […]
5 Surefire Ways to Repel People from Your Expo Booth
After wandering among thousands of stalls spread out over convention halls larger than football stadiums, hunting down thirty (mostly probiotic products) and drifting into countless others through either simple attraction or plain exhaustion, one notices trends. Paleo, probiotics and protein are uber-popular in 2015. Gluten-free too. Organic mostly, non-GMO many and geared to the educated […]