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Are you carrying the obesity pathogen?
I can remember where I was and what I was doing when it happened. I was sitting in my usual spot at Sound Café in the Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans sipping coffee on a Sunday morning. It was...
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American (Gut) Gothic: 5 things you can do for a healthier microbiome in 2013
In the summer of 2008, a 26-year-old man from Shanxi Province walked into a lab at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and 23 weeks later walked out 113 pounds lighter. He had not participated in a clinical...
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Why Every Registered Dietitian Should Sign up for American Gut
If your job is to provide science-based nutrition – and sometimes lifestyle – advice to individuals, patients, schools, sport teams, health agencies, grocery stores, food manufacturers, or a myriad of...
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Can parasites prevent autoimmune diabetes?
A guest post by Moises Velasquez-Manoff. Coronado Biosciences, a company seeking FDA approval for a type of medicalized parasite, recently announced the beginning of a very interesting trial on Type...
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Slumdog Microbiome More Diverse
I was recently invited to put together a series of slides – or webinar – for a national supermarket chain on things their customers could do to improve the health of their gut microbiome. Once I got...
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A Fecal Transplant from a Healthy Chimpanzee or Average Joe – which would you...
Play along for a moment. The year is 2015 and all hell has broken loose. You’re part of a small band of people wondering the post-apocalyptic streets of downtown Atlanta – staying one step ahead of the...
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From Meat to Microbes to Main street: is it time to trade in your George...
If scientists keep publishing the results of their work in journals, we’re going to run out of stuff to eat. The latest nutritional no-no literally has meat-eaters on the ropes following a startling...
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Swapping microbes with your dog
We hug them, kiss them, sleep with them, and share our food with them – they are, of course, the family dog. In return, they share with us some of the microbes they pick up as they saunter about the...
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Breaking A Plate for Human Health
It’s difficult to overstate how our growing understanding of the trillions of microbes that live on and in the human body is radically changing the way we think about health and the prevention and...
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Sorry low carbers, your microbiome is just not that into you
I recently posted a scatter plot (below) on Facebook/Twitter of preliminary metadata that we are accumulating as part of the American Gut project – which includes, among other things, a questionnaire...
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Please Pass the Microbes
A few days ago I accompanied two Hadza hunters to a series of seeps or springs where they had set up hunting blinds of tall grass to ambush thirsty animals. It’s late dry season in Tanzania and...
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Going Feral: my one-year journey to acquire the healthiest gut microbiome in...
Unless you’ve been holed up in a cabin in the Siberian outback, it’s been hard to miss the avalanche of research and associated press coverage ballyhooing the connection between microbes and human...
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(Re)Becoming Human
AS THE SUN set over Lake Eyasi in Tanzania, nearly thirty minutes had passed since I had inserted a turkey baster into my bum and injected the feces of a Hadza man – a member of one of the last...
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Microbial Diversity: sometimes you have it, sometimes you don’t
This past January I wanted to see what would happen to my gut flora if I adopted a hunter-gatherer diet for a week – eating the plants, animals and drinking the same water as the Hadza hunter-gatherers...
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