Whole Grains Benefit Gut Microbiota

Two New Studies Uncover More Health Benefits of Whole Grains by AFP Relax NewsYahoo News.  February 9, 2017. 

Your Microbiome And You: What Clinicians Need to Know

Your Microbiome And You:  What Clinicians Need To Know by Scott Peterson, PhD.   Medscape.  December 20, 2013.

An excellent and brief presentation of the microbiome.

(1)  What is meant by referring to humans as a metaorgnism?

(2)  What are the aims and limitations of the Human Microbiome Project?

(3)  What are some of the direct effects of disruptions of the homeostasis between humans and their microbiotal counterparts?  Indirect effects?

(4)  What are two key practical questions raised by research on the microbiome?

(5)  What are some of the harmful gut impacts of fructose?

(6)  The link between the microbiome, obesity, and diabetes is thought to be related to ____________________.

(7)  The interplay between _____________________ opens a wholly new avenue of research into oncogenesis.

(8)  What is TMAO and how can it promote heart disease?

(9)  Infectious disease can be conceived of as an extreme___________________ between microbe and human.

(10)  Pharmacomicrobiomics examines how ______________________ affect _______________.

(11)  How can imbalance in microbiota lead to skin disorders?

(12)  How is a link between genetics and alterations in the microbiome perhaps related to ankylosing spondylitis?

(13)  How does gut microbial species perhaps lead to imparied memory and increased anxiety-like behaviors?

(14)  What are three needed areas of future research?

Clearest Evidence To Date That Gut Bacteria Can Help Cause Obesity

Gut Bacteria From Thin Humans Can Slim Mice Down by Gina Kolata.  The New York Times.  September 5, 2013.

(1)  The most surprising part of the study was an experiment indicating that, with the right diet, it is possible _______________________________________.  In this experiment it was also found that bacteria from a fat mouse does not ________________________.

(2)  What happened in the "Battle of the Microbiota?"

(3)  What happened when the fat mice got food pellets that were rich in fruits and vegetables and low in fat?

(4)  Discuss the pro's and con's of fecal transplants for weight loss.

Stool Donation: A Personal Story

Why I Donated My Stool by Marie Myung-0k Lee.  The New York Times.  July 6, 2013.

(1)  F.M.T. is explored in this article as an alternative to treatments such as ______________ durgs and total ____________.

(2)  F.M.T is _____________________.

(3)  Bacteria in the gut can serve many functions including ____________________________.

(4)  Bacteria in a healthy human bowel are involved in ____________________

(5)  True or False:  Many adverse reactions to F.M.T have been recorded worldwide.

(6)  How has an FDA regulation impacted the use of F.M.T?

(7)  True or False:  F.M.T. must be performed in a hospital.

(8)  In an ideal future, a screening procedure may allow healthy people to donate their _________-

(9)

Gut Microorganisms Seems To Be A Constant; Early Gut Colonizers May Produce Lifelong Effects

Those Gut Germs May Shape Your Life From Birth by Maggie Fox.  NBC News Health.  July 4, 2013.

(1)  The study recounted here found little change in the bacteria living within with the exception of ______________________.

(2)  The microorganisms within fulfill several tasks including ___________________________.

(3)  Some studies that the microorganisms affect our weight by ________________________.

(4)  Closely related people often ___________________.

(5)  The changes the gut bacteria brought on my loss of weight seems to be related to the __________________ not the _________________________.