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Postbiotics – Capturing Microbial Benefits Without Live Microbes

The Leap to Postbiotics – Born of Necessity and Insight Early 2020. COVID-19 brought the world to a standstill, and with it, our fledgling FMT program. Overnight, the idea of transplanting raw stool seemed fraught with new risk – could SARS-CoV-2 be lurking in feces? We lacked reliable tests initially,Read

From Probiotics to Fecal Transplant – A Paradigm Shift (Part 1)

Early Days of Probiotics: Promise and Marketing Hype Modern microbiome science emerged in the 2000s with the realization that trillions of gut microbes form a virtual “organ” influencing health. Early on, probiotics – live bacteria administered for health benefits – were embraced as a simple way to modulate this gutRead

Are Cannabinoids the Key to a Comfortable, Healthy GI Tract?

The statements mentioned in this content have not been evaluated by the FDA, and are not intended to prevent, diagnose, or treat any disease. Always work with your personal healthcare provider.   Gastrointestinal problems like inflammatory bowel disease, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), abdominal pain caused by stress, constipation, and diarrheaRead

Microbiota & Seasonal Allergies

First introduced in 1989, the “hygiene hypothesis” proposed that exposure to specific microbes, perhaps during crucial windows of development, educates the immune system in a way that modifies the risk for allergic, inflammatory, and autoimmune diseases. Initially, this was proposed in response to the observation that the position of a child inRead

Probiotic Improves Health of Kidney Cancer Patients

The gut microbiome—the trillions of bacteria and other microorganisms that live in our intestines—plays an extensive role in human health and disease. An imbalance between healthy and unhealthy gut bacteria has been linked to a wide variety of adverse health conditions, including irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, obesity, andRead

Can a Father’s Gut Health Affect His Offspring?

Our gut microbiota is made up of the millions of microscopic creatures that inhabit our gastrointestinal tract. It is responsible for producing enzymes, metabolites, and other molecules crucial for optimum health, helping regulate our metabolism, immunity, and other processes throughout the body. Previous research has also shown that a mother’sRead

Probiotic Metabolite May Help Treat IBS

Science is only beginning to understand the role that the gut microbiome—the collection of bacteria and other microbes that live in our intestines—plays in our overall health. For one thing, these tiny tenants of our digestive system metabolize various components of our diets to produce beneficial fatty acids (FAs) thatRead

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