The Future of Medicine is in Your Gut
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Evidence is mounting that the gut microbiome influences just about every major human disease. These trillions of microbes use our food to generate substances called metabolites that can protect or harm our health, with consequences reaching far beyond our gastrointestinal tracts.
Research has linked microbial metabolites to diabetes, cardiovascular disease, liver disease, obesity, high blood pressure, neurological disorders, depression, cancer, and more. Gastroenterologist Christopher Damman, MD, a clinical associate professor at the University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, calls it a "growing theme" in microbiome science.
Now scientists are developing treatments targeting gut microbial pathways, designed to eliminate the bad metabolites and boost the good metabolites.
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Evidence is mounting that the gut microbiome influences just about every major human disease. These trillions of microbes use our food to generate substances called metabolites that can protect or harm our health, with consequences reaching far beyond our gastrointestinal tracts.
Research has linked microbial metabolites to diabetes, cardiovascular disease, liver disease, obesity, high blood pressure, neurological disorders, depression, cancer, and more. Gastroenterologist Christopher Damman, MD, a clinical associate professor at the University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, calls it a "growing theme" in microbiome science.
Now scientists are developing treatments targeting gut microbial pathways, designed to eliminate the bad metabolites and boost the good metabolites.
@George-K said in The Future of Medicine is in Your Gut:
Evidence is mounting that the gut microbiome influences just about every major human disease.
I think there has also been studies how this relates to fatness. The stuff in your guts when you are born has an impact on how fact you could be. If I remember right, there was an example of an asian adoptee who grew up in a US family that was all fat, and he never was, even though he had the same lifestyle.
(Of course, one data point does not prove anything, and there was more to the study than this)
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@George-K said in The Future of Medicine is in Your Gut:
Evidence is mounting that the gut microbiome influences just about every major human disease.
I think there has also been studies how this relates to fatness. The stuff in your guts when you are born has an impact on how fact you could be. If I remember right, there was an example of an asian adoptee who grew up in a US family that was all fat, and he never was, even though he had the same lifestyle.
(Of course, one data point does not prove anything, and there was more to the study than this)
@taiwan_girl said in The Future of Medicine is in Your Gut:
I think there has also been studies how this relates to fatness.
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@taiwan_girl said in The Future of Medicine is in Your Gut:
I think there has also been studies how this relates to fatness.
@George-K Interesting story. Thanks!!
