for our bacterial partners, a human lifetime is deep time.
for - microbiome - one human lifetime is deep time - relativity
for our bacterial partners, a human lifetime is deep time.
for - microbiome - one human lifetime is deep time - relativity
For many if not all members of the human microbial fauna, generation times are measured in hours or even minutes. These short generation times, coupled with the large population sizes of many bacteria, effectively elide the boundary between ecological and evolutionary time
for - microbiome - blurs ecological and evolutionary time - due to short generation time of microfauna
In contrast to the traditional focus on the individual organism as the target of selection and the unit of evolution, the genetic information embodied by each of our microbiomes may itself be the target for and the product of the evolutionary process.
for - unpack - microbiome as the target for / product of evolution
The collective microbial genome in our gut may include 100-fold more genetic information than what can be found in our own eukaryotic cells.
for - trivia - microbiome - 100x more genetic information here than our other body cells -meme - most of the genetic information inside you is not really you
efficient removal of potentially toxic by-products of metabolism, and provides a homeostatic environment for bacterial growth
for - microbiome - functions - efficient removal of toxic byproducts of metabolism - homestatic environment for(beneficial) bacterial growth
Marked differences between one human microbiome and the next suggest that no single bacterial species must always be present in the gut—or in any other body environment—to ensure a working microbiome.
for - microbiome - keystone ROLES - no keystone species - can vary from person to person
keystone roles
for - keystone roles vs keystone species - microbiome
keystone species
for - definition - keystone microbiome species - critical species that, if removed, can engender collapse of the entire microbiome system
microbiome is clearly linked to the maturation and regulation of the human immune system,
for - adjacency - human microbiome - immune system
the passage through the birth canal seeds the newborn’s microbiome. Infants delivered by cesarean section, in contrast, exhibit a distinct microbiome that more closely resembles the composition of the mother’s skin
for - trivia - birth - microbiome - natural childbirth vs cesarean - birth canal seeds newborn's microbiome. Cesarean section alters it - microbiome more like mother's skin!
nstead, such perturbed ecosystems may settle on a new composition that includes different species, many of them resistant to antibiotic treatment.
for - progress trap - long term antibiotic use - can create new composition of microbiome with species resistant to antibiotic treatment
the Human Microbiome Project
for - The Human Microbiome Project - progress trap - antibiotics - severely disrupts the microbiome (Human Microbiome Project)
Interesting note to read on pseudocont value and how it should be set to be consistent across tools
Have you felt those moments of oneness withanother? Do we ALL need to be in that state of profound being-in-love-within order to attain the kind of internal communication that my body’s cellsand microbiome have with one another?
for - body cells and microbiome communication - the interesting thing is that when there is good communication between the microworld individuals within our body, we might not feel anything in particular - It is when we start feeling pain and discomfort that this is a signal that something is wrong between cells and/or microbiota
organisms formour microbiome. The host organism together with its microbiome constitutes
for - definition - holobioint - host-microbiome relationship
there's a microbe in the mouth called fusobacterium nucleotide it over proliferates it's okay to have normally but it over proliferates when 01:28:39 you have bleeding gums gingivitis or periodontitis where it then enters the bloodstream this is called translocation and colonize the colon and the evidence is very good it is a principal cause of 01:28:52 colon cancer colon cancer starts in the mouth incredibly and doesn't get there by swallowing gets her through the bloodstream translocation
for:holistic medicine - example - oral microbiome and colon cancer, oral microbiome - colon cancer, bleeding gums - colon cancer, gingivitus - colon cancer, periodontitis - colon cancer, bloodstream translocation, complexity - example - human body - colon cancer - oral microbiome
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references
Oral-Intestinal Microbiota in Colorectal Cancer: Inflammation and Immunosuppression (2022)
Insights into oral microbiome and colorectal cancer – on the way of searching new perspectives (2023)
typically between 1010 and 1011 microbial cells per wet-weight gram of faeces7,8,9.
One hundred trillion cells, one and 14 zeros, that's the approximate number of microorganisms in your body, ten times greater than the number of your own cells. Your microbial baggage occupies almost 2% of your body weight, that's about one and a half kilograms, approximately the weight of your liver. Or your brain.
Mayer says time-restricted eating — a form of intermittent fasting that requires you to squeeze all your daily calories into a compressed feeding window — may be helpful. “The migrating motor complex is rarely mentioned in these articles on intermittent fasting, which is surprising because it’s so well-studied,” he says.To ensure the MMC has enough time to perform its duties, aiming for 14 hours without caloric foods or drinks is a good target, he says. For example, you could avoid all calories between 8 p.m. and 10 a.m. “The 14 hours without food intake would allow the MMC to kick in and not only cleanse your gut of any undigestible, unabsorbable food components, but also to reestablish the normal proximal-to-distal gradient of gut microbial density,” he says.
!- For : microbiome health - fasting for 14 hours helps the migrating motor complex (MMC) maintain gut health
It has long since been demonstrated that Parkinson's patients have a different microbiome in the intestines than healthy people
Question:
in most conceivable cases, we study a particular microbiome in order to understand, predict, and potentially control its functioning, with no particular regard for species content.
this is profound
16S sequencing showed that nicotine perturbed bacterial diversity and community composition of gut microbiota more pronouncedly in HFD mice.
Note that nicotine by itself had minimal impact on the microbiome. Nicotine speeds up transit through the intestine. Thus, the reason nicotine plus a high fat diet was detrimental is likely that nicotine is increasing the throughput of harmful prebiotics (e.g. protein in particular). When lots of fiber and resistant starch is present (will need to see if they provide this info for their diets), then nicotine mostly just carries it to the small intestine faster (and possibly reduces fermentation time).
Given that opioids have a negative effect on the microbiome, I was expecting nicotine to have a positive effect. Perhaps it would have a positive effect were there more resistant starch in the diet.
Results reveal a significant shift in the gut microbiome and metabolome within one day following morphine treatment compared to that observed after placebo. Morphine-induced gut microbial dysbiosis exhibited distinct characteristic signatures, including significant increase in communities associated with pathogenic function, decrease in communities associated with stress tolerance and significant impairment in bile acids and morphine-3-glucuronide/morphine biotransformation in the gut.
Unsurprisingly, various substances appear to disrupt the microbiome; artificial sweeteners are not unique. Given that I don't worry about opioids, I probably shouldn't worry about sweeteners.
However, opioids are known for causing constipation. That is to say, they have a clear effect on digestion. Perhaps I should worry about opioids rather than not worry about sweeteners.
But, if you take a supplement containing 1,250 milligrams, your body seems to realize that’s too much—and so, clamps down on absorption at the intestinal lining level, and you end up absorbing less than half.
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This could be very handy for lowering the pH of the gut (increasing the acidity). As explained in other Greger videos, an acidic gut is desirable because good gut bacteria produce acids and thus are the bacteria that thrive in an acidic environment.
Currently, I'm taking magnesium citrate. My concern is that the unabsorbed magnesium is alkalinizing my gut. Vitamic C should be able to counteract this (assuming it is indeed an issue). That does make the assumption, however, that the hydrogen ion makes it to the large intestine. That is to say, that the ascorbate does not become a conjugate base.
key challenge is to quantify the functional roles of bacterial taxa in nature to understand how the properties of ecosystems change over time or under different environmental conditions
Hemicellulase activity was elevated in pairwise mixtures of communities that placed interacting phylotypes together (interactions, n = 9 mixtures) but not in communities that did not place interacting phylotypes together (no interactions, n = 56 mixtures)
Very interesting way to validate correlative phenotypes in communities
Our analysis demonstrates that its structure is shaped more by stochasticity than selection.
More than half of your body is not human, say scientists.
Gut Germs Appear to Play Role in Multiple Sclerosis
I have had IBS essentially all my life. At least as far back as I can remember. This is a very interesting experiement. Hopefully scientists can use this as a springboard for either further research, or ideally, to find a solution. IBS negatively impacts quality of life for many sufferers.
Isn't the flipped experiment a clear indication that FTT (fecal transplant therapy) can help alleviating IBS? If the reverse is true, there might be great value in getting your microbiome fixed/infused by healthy microbiota from donors.
“Disinfectants have no place in a normal household
This is such a substantial mindshift and companies have spent years and billions persuading us otherwise. We urgently need to understand how to be clean but not sterile