- An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The gut\r
- microbiome is the sum total of all the micro-organisms living\r
- in a person's gut, and has been shown to play a huge role in\r
- human health. New research has found probiotics -- usually\r
- taken as supplements or in foods such as yoghurt, kimchi or\r
- kefir -- can hinder a patient's gut microbiome from returning\r
- to normal after a course of antibiotics, and that different\r
- people respond to probiotics in dramatically different ways.\r
- In the first of two papers published in the journal Cell,\r
- researchers performed endoscopies and colonoscopies to sample\r
- and study the gut microbiomes of people who took antibiotics\r
- before and after probiotic consumption. Another group were\r
- given samples of their own gut microbiomes collected before\r
- consuming antibiotics. The researchers found the microbiomes\r
- of those who had taken the probiotics had suffered a "very\r
- severe disturbance." "Once the probiotics had colonized the\r
- gut, they completely inhibited the return of the indigenous\r
- microbiome which was disrupted during antibiotic treatment,"\r
- said Eran Elinav, an immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of\r
- Science in Israel and lead author on the studies. The\r
- scientists also compared the gut microbiomes of the gut\r
+ An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian:\r
+ \r
+ > The gut microbiome is the sum total of all the\r
+ micro-organisms living in a person's gut, and has been shown\r
+ to play a huge role in human health. New research has found\r
+ probiotics -- usually taken as supplements or in foods such as\r
+ yoghurt, kimchi or kefir -- [1]can hinder a patient's gut\r
+ microbiome from returning to normal after a course of\r
+ antibiotics , and that different people respond to probiotics\r
+ in dramatically different ways. In the [2]first of two papers\r
+ published in the journal Cell, researchers performed\r
+ endoscopies and colonoscopies to sample and study the gut\r
+ microbiomes of people who took antibiotics before and after\r
+ probiotic consumption. Another group were given samples of\r
+ their own gut microbiomes collected before consuming\r
+ antibiotics. The researchers found the microbiomes of those\r
+ who had taken the probiotics had suffered a "very severe\r
+ disturbance." "Once the probiotics had colonized the gut, they\r
+ completely inhibited the return of the indigenous microbiome\r
+ which was disrupted during antibiotic treatment," said Eran\r
+ Elinav, an immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science\r
+ in Israel and lead author on the studies.\r
+ \r
+ >\r
+ \r
+ > The scientists also compared the gut microbiomes of the gut\r