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What Does a Three-day Dietary Cleanse Do to Your Gut Microbiome?

  • February 29
  • Embriette Hyde
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*Note: this study was performed in 2014 when the Knight Lab was still located at CU Boulder in Boulder, CO and therefore references the city

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Proton Pump Inhibitors and the Gut Microbiome

  • February 17
  • Jeff Leach
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The following blog post was written by Matthew Jackson, a PhD Student in the Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology at King’s College London. TwinsUK and the Department

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Lots of Changes!

  • February 17
  • Jeff Leach
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The New Year is here, and the Knight lab recently celebrated the one year anniversary of its move from CU Boulder to the University of

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What is American Gut?

You’ve probably heard by now that the trillions of microbes living on and in our bodies are changing both the way we think about health and disease and even how we define Self. Ever wonder what’s in your gut? Ever wonder how your diet might shift your gut microbes (for better or worse), or how simple lifestyle decisions may have a dramatic impact on your gut and overall health? Ever wonder which microbes on your husband sometimes make him smell funny?

The gut is our main focus, but it is also interesting to look at oral, skin and even vaginal communities for several reasons. It might be possible to develop biomarkers–canaries in our corporeal coal mines that let us predict aspects of your gut health based on a spit sample or a reading (swabbing) of your palm. We know, for example, that arterial plaque shares microbes with the mouth but not with the gut. Could we use plaque samples to predict features of our hearts? Maybe.

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