Healthcare for Professionals
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In the book Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues, Dr. Martin Blaser of New York University challenges the assumption that antibiotics are without harm.
The gut microbiota - the community of hundreds of trillions of microorganisms living in our digestive system that perform a range of essential functions for our health - is a constant source of new and interesting content.
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The video also provides information about the latest research into the benefits of microbiota transplants for some conditions that affect the bacteria in our gut.
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Professor Magnus Simrén, researcher at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), is the Chairman of the United European Gastroenterology (UEG) Scientific Committee. He attended the 4th Gut Microbiota for Health World Summit, where we had a chance to interview him about IBS.
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Now, a team of researchers may have discovered a new, potentially non-invasive screening tool based on individuals’ gut microbiota, which could be used as a complement to colonoscopies and other screening tests.
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TED Ed Lessons Worth Sharing presents “You are your microbes”, an animated movie where the researchers Jessica Green and Karen Guillemin show, in an easy way, that the human body harbors a huge quantity of bacteria organized in communities.
As this enlightening video published by Huffington Post journalist Jacqueline Howard shows, we are walking ecosystems, as our bodies are colonised from top to bottom by microbes that, not happy with behaving like guests, are actually integrated into our biology.
Do you want to know where the microbes that live in your digestive system come from? What is their relationship with metabolic conditions like diabetes or certain neurological disorders?
Dr. Karen Scott, of the Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health at the University of Aberdeen (UK), tells us about probiotics and prebiotics and discusses what they are, how they differ from each other, how they alter our microbiota and
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Today, we would like to share with you an excellent animation published by NPR and created by Benjamin Arthur. Entitled “Exploring The Invisible Universe That Lives On Us — And In Us”, it explains the universe of bacterial life moving around inside us in
