i Thursday September 06, 2018 @11:30PM (BeauHD)\r
i from the contrary-to-popular-belief dept.\r
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-i An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The gut\r
-i microbiome is the sum total of all the micro-organisms living\r
-i in a person's gut, and has been shown to play a huge role in\r
-i human health. New research has found probiotics -- usually\r
-i taken as supplements or in foods such as yoghurt, kimchi or\r
-i kefir -- can hinder a patient's gut microbiome from returning\r
-i to normal after a course of antibiotics, and that different\r
-i people respond to probiotics in dramatically different ways.\r
-i In the first of two papers published in the journal Cell,\r
-i researchers performed endoscopies and colonoscopies to sample\r
-i and study the gut microbiomes of people who took antibiotics\r
-i before and after probiotic consumption. Another group were\r
-i given samples of their own gut microbiomes collected before\r
-i consuming antibiotics. The researchers found the microbiomes\r
-i of those who had taken the probiotics had suffered a "very\r
-i severe disturbance." "Once the probiotics had colonized the\r
-i gut, they completely inhibited the return of the indigenous\r
-i microbiome which was disrupted during antibiotic treatment,"\r
-i said Eran Elinav, an immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of\r
-i Science in Israel and lead author on the studies. The\r
-i scientists also compared the gut microbiomes of the gut\r
+i An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian:\r
+i \r
+i > The gut microbiome is the sum total of all the\r
+i micro-organisms living in a person's gut, and has been shown\r
+i to play a huge role in human health. New research has found\r
+i probiotics -- usually taken as supplements or in foods such as\r
+i yoghurt, kimchi or kefir -- [1]can hinder a patient's gut\r
+i microbiome from returning to normal after a course of\r
+i antibiotics , and that different people respond to probiotics\r
+i in dramatically different ways. In the [2]first of two papers\r
+i published in the journal Cell, researchers performed\r
+i endoscopies and colonoscopies to sample and study the gut\r
+i microbiomes of people who took antibiotics before and after\r
+i probiotic consumption. Another group were given samples of\r
+i their own gut microbiomes collected before consuming\r
+i antibiotics. The researchers found the microbiomes of those\r
+i who had taken the probiotics had suffered a "very severe\r
+i disturbance." "Once the probiotics had colonized the gut, they\r
+i completely inhibited the return of the indigenous microbiome\r
+i which was disrupted during antibiotic treatment," said Eran\r
+i Elinav, an immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science\r
+i in Israel and lead author on the studies.\r
+i \r
+i >\r
+i \r
+i > The scientists also compared the gut microbiomes of the gut\r
i intestinal tract of 25 volunteers with that of their stools.\r
i They found that stool bacteria only partially correlated with\r
i the microbiomes functioning inside their bodies. "So the fact\r
i that we all almost exclusively rely on stool in our microbiome\r
i research may not be a reliable way of studying gut microbiome\r
-i health," said Elinav. In the second paper, the researchers\r
+i health," said Elinav. In the [3]second paper , the researchers\r
i examined the colonization and impact of probiotics on 15\r
i people by sampling within their gastrointestinal tract. They\r
i divided the individuals into two groups: one were given a\r
i colonisation of the probiotics, and one in which the\r
i probiotics colonized the gut and modified the composition of\r
i the gut microbiome and the genes of the host individual."\r
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+i \r
+i [1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/06/probiotics-\r
+i not-as-beneficial-for-gut-health-as-previously-thought\r
+i \r
+i [2] https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(18)31102-4\r
+i \r
+i [3] https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(18)31108-5\r
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