[DUMBGRUNT]

Fat Man's Prayer

Lord, My soul is ripped with riot incited by my wicked diet. "We Are What We Eat," said a wise old man! and, Lord, if that's true, I'm a garbage can. http://wbenton.tripod.com/humor/Jokeindex673.html

[logi_cal869]

Though there are some great premises in the article, the underlying ignorance of the author and the study is rather incredible.

To-wit:

“By breaking down nutrients and helping them pass through the walls of the bowel, these microbes serve as a sort of gatekeeper between what is eaten and what actually makes it into the body.”

They still have much to learn.

[greatvikingone]

Weight is an individual character flaw when you stay at the table three courses longer than you should, drown your sorrows in alcohol, and distress with a gallon of ice cream.

[aspasia]

If all this uncertainty makes nutrition guidelines and nutrition even more inscrutable, it also stands to do some good by undermining the moralizing and simplistic character judgments often associated with body weight. Seeing obesity as a manifestation of the interplay between many systems—genetic, microbial, environmental—invites the understanding that human physiology has changed along with our relationship to the species in and around us. As these new scientific models unfold, they impugn the idea of weight as an individual character flaw, revealing it for the self-destructive myth it has always been.

An example of a bloated and obese paragraph.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Whole body vibration shakes up microbiome, reduces inflammation in diabetes

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3769316/posts

[Redwood71]

““Whether this applies in humans, we don’t know,” Hooper says, “but this is a tantalizing clue.””

A clue to what? In your own words here from the article you can’t find a use for it even though you invented the theory. And if it doesn’t apply to humans, are we on a save the mice kick to feed the save the spotted owls? Great solution. Ask Hawaii how changing the environment with the protection of animals came out. And why they are over run with chickens.

rwoodf

[fireman15]

It is an interesting article... The premise is not new to me. When my appendix ruptured several years ago and I did not go in for treatment for over a week I had developed a bad infection. The surgical team not only had to thoroughly wash off all my intestines, (what a fun job that must have been) they also packed me full of antibiotics. Afterward I started having problems with poor bowel movements.

I took probiotics for years but interestingly enough the most improvement that I have had is when I started eating “organic” salad mix from Costco regularly with a lot of vegetables added from our own garden that we started as a hobby this year. I think that I am getting more diverse and useful organisms introduced into my intestines from that than I got from the pills. If I don't eat the salad for a few days things start getting wonky again. I have never been a believer in “organic” foods having always believed it was just a marketing gimmick.

[AdmSmith]

Here is the original article
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6451/eaat9351

This give a background:

Immunoglobulin A (IgA) promotes health by regulating the composition and function of gut microbiota, but the molecular requirements for such homeostatic IgA function remain unknown. We found that a heavily glycosylated monoclonal IgA recognizing ovalbumin coats Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron (B. theta), a prominent gut symbiont of the phylum Bacteroidetes. In vivo, IgA alters the expression of polysaccharide utilization loci (PUL), including a functionally uncharacterized molecular family provisionally named Mucus-Associated Functional Factor (MAFF). In both mice and humans, MAFF is detected predominantly in mucus-resident bacteria, and its expression requires the presence of complex microbiota. Expression of the MAFF system facilitates symbiosis with other members of the phylum Firmicutes and promotes protection from a chemically induced model of colitis. Our data reveal a novel mechanism by which IgA promotes symbiosis and colonic homeostasis.
http://jem.rupress.org/content/215/8/2019

It is good to have the right bugs in the intestines