This is an amazing article from CNN and written by John Bonifield and Elizabeth Cohen or CNN Health. People take antibiotics all the time without thinking they sometimes fail to work. This article shows how health bacteria or microbes can be transplanted to help fight out the bad bacteria. Medford, MA (CNN)It’s the middle of…
Right after birth, trillions of microbes rush into a baby’s gut and start to grow. Most of these critters come from the mom’s skin, birth canal and gut. But exactly which types of bacteria take up residence in an infant’s gut can depend on the mother’s DNA, scientists reported Thursday. The study, published in the…
The Microbes in Your Gut May Be Making You Fat or Keeping You Thin By Marlene Cimons, Published: December 9 / The Washington Post In 2008, Rob Knight fell ill while vacationing in Peru. Camping along the Inca Trail, he found himself with the usual traveler’s symptoms, scrambling for the latrine in the middle of…