The Future is Bright for Probiotics
Posted 2nd December 2019 by Joshua Sewell
I am extremely sceptical of all claims about probiotics. For the last 10 years of running Probiotics.org, companies have been sending me questionable products with extraordinarily impossible to believe claims.
But, after Global Engage’s 4th Probiotic & Prebiotics Congress, here’s what I strongly believe:
5 Ways Sleep And Microbiome Are Interrelated With Immunity And Cognition
Posted 8th November 2019 by Joshua Sewell
The effect of sleep on the microbiome of the host has been a topic of interest among researchers for the past several years. Studies have yielded opposing results in how short sleep affects the microbiome. While some showed a significant change in Firmicutes to Bacteroidetes ratio, others found no microbial change following short-term sleep restriction.
Probiotics Congress: Europe Presentation Slides
Posted 1st July 2019 by Joshua Sewell
Following the Probiotics Congress: Europe, we have made the following presentation slides from Jean-Francois Brugère, Grégory Lambert, Bruno Pot and Koen Venema available.
Microbiome linked to depression in a groundbreaking Benelux study
Posted 19th February 2019 by Joshua Sewell
This article is republished with kind permission from Biovox. The original article can be found here.
The microbiome had been at the forefront of a lot of research and news in the past few years. Now, a new study published in Nature Microbiology has linked specific microbiome changes with depression and quality of life. The largest of its kind to-date, the research was made possible by over 2000 participants from the Flemish Gut Flora Project and the Dutch LifeLines DEEP project. The results may lead to novel therapies for people suffering from this debilitating mental illness.
Harnessing the power of RNA for a healthy gut microbiome
Posted 13th February 2019 by Joshua Sewell
I was a scientist at Los Alamos National Lab in the US when I identified a science-based personalized diet that completely cured my early onset arthritis. I realized that the gut microbiome would play a central role in personalized nutrition and redirected all my science projects towards it. We desperately needed better technology for analysing the gut microbiome and metatranscriptomics offers the best value. It is better than 16S or metagenomic sequencing in two important aspects:
Looking beyond the bacterial gut microbiome
Posted 5th April 2018 by Jane Williams
Most microbiome research to date has focused on the bacterial gut microbiome, and yet microbiomes are comprised of a wide array of microbes – from viruses and archaea to protozoa and yeasts – and colonize nearly every human body site – from the skin and lungs to the urogenital system and breast milk.