1. YOU AND YOUR MICROBIOME.
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Hooper, Rowan, Wilson, Clare, George, Alison, Wade, Grace, Klein, Alice, and Le Page, Michael
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GUT microbiome , *SEROTONIN , *TRANSGENIC organisms , *PLANT-based diet , *INFLAMMATORY bowel diseases , *CLOSTRIDIUM diseases , *WEIGHT gain - Abstract
But evidence for the latter comes from experiments in mice showing that they start to gain weight and develop gut inflammation after receiving transplants of gut microbes from people with obesity and inflammatory bowel disease respectively. "Despite the growing science linking the gut microbiome and the chemicals it produces with dozens of health outcomes, what defines an optimum or "healthy" gut microbiome is still not absolutely clear", says Tim Spector at King's College London, who is a co-founder of personalised nutrition company ZOE. He and his team have also shown that, in mice susceptible to Alzheimer's-like disease, those without a gut microbiome have fewer of the disease's characteristic protein clumps and tangles in their brains than those with gut microbes. A 2018 study found that, in vaginally born babies, bacteria from the mother's vagina are found in the baby's gut for only a few days, while the mother's gut bacteria continued colonising the baby's gut for months after the birth. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023