Oo, look what I found. I first heard of the micro biome from Chinese traditional medicine martial artists, maybe in 2012 or a little before then.

I got a lot of sources.

“For both groups of volunteers, “the differences were dramatic,” says Segal. “On the bad diets, blood glucose really reached abnormal level, but on the good diets, they normalized to healthy ranges.” And even though each participant ate different personalized meals, their gut microbes changed in consistent and perhaps beneficial ways. For example, several bacterial groups that had been associated with type 2 diabetes went down.”

http://www.businessinsider.com/researchers-built-an-algorithm-that-will-create-diets-that-work-for-you-2015-11

Didn’t matter. Got stuck doing the full course of antibiotics.

If I had been categorized correctly by my risk, it would never have happened. First, my employer’s idiot risk management department. (If I had the same job at John Hopkins, or UCSF, or UCLA, or Mayo, or Cornell Weill, or NYU, or… I’d have been adjudged “negative” on the initisl Mantoux test.) And if the CDC understood that there are people who work in hospitals that have no patient contact and art low risk…

The long-term one was that I lost weight (about twenty pounds all told), and kept well under the military limits for my height — without trying, or changing my diet or exercise routine particularly for nearly three or four years afterwards. It wasn’t permanent, alas — but I have always wondered if taking Voltarin seriously readjusted my metabolism for some years.

I know – anecdote, not data. But I have fought the weight thing for decades, and that was the only time in my life after my mid-twenties that all the usual weight-control advice actually worked.

Yes, I take research with a grain of salt. But I’ve been reading a lot about this bacteria and weight thing for a long time, and as far as I can tell it has value.

you may forget that i work with those researchers and write programs for their work and watch them do politics not research.

its to the point they dont give us raises, they are working people like me to death, its policy not accident, and they are so political they skew research to match political whim of their party.

wish i was dead rather than working with these people till i do drop dead…

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[a lot of research isnt worth the paper they print it on now, given how they dont really do research… ESPECIALLY the women who dont go in to do real research but to prove ideology more than anything else.. with academia of medicine loaded with them, they are loading up on really really bad work]

As a result, I’ve started taking probiotics and will be fermenting my own saurerkraut. I truly believe our gut has significant influences beyond what we currently imagine. Google “mark’s daily apple microbiome” to see a variety of fact based articles. Yes, they lean paleo, but focus on veggies, bacteria, etc. and on weight issues as well.

I also just finished reading “The Coming Plague” which is a look back at the various microbe pandemics/epidemics since the 1950s. There’s a lot of discussion about mutations, DNA and RNA swapping, etc. And of course, antibiotic use not just in people but in animals and soil as well.

As a result, I will try not to take antibiotics, and when I must be on them, I will try to keep away from exposure to other sick people. Bad bacteria will try to establish a stronghold so why possibly expose myself to some types I don’t already have.