Today’s fermentation subject: gherkins! #fermentation #pickle #Salzgurke #dill #kovászosUborka #Lactobacillus

For all their bullshit the right does pick up on some weirdo cultural trend that I think they are correct about every now and then.

I think the idea of consuming human breast milk later in life is going to be the cure to a lot of the #microbiome issues that our society is having now. It obviously needs to be tested for pathogens because those can be transferred but what is considered a healthy microbiome largely consists of that which is transplanted during birth and via breast milk.

We know that specific strains which are plentiful in youth such as #Bifidobacterium decline to make up only about 10% of the microbiome in late 20s and nearly die off completely by 30s. We also know that specific #Lactobacillus strains such as lactobacillus reuteri have declined on the whole since the 90s in US populations both of which are found in breast milk.

We are likely going to find that colonization of the gut requires an entire ecostystem and this is likely why #probiotics on the whole are not useful for altering the micrbiome long term. Breast milk which includes a diverse ecosystem of microbes as well as Oligosaccharides and Lactoferrin being required by the process. Thus far the long term efficacy of Fecal matter transplants ie #FMT being questionable at best is a possible alternative to this.

#Health #PersonalHealth #Dsybosis

This is work I've been waiting to see come out for at least a year (two!?). Congrats all on a very cool study!

Acetobacter and Lactobacillus interact in the gut through Lactobacillus' effect in shaping the gut morphology to reshape in-pockets such that more (and varied) Acetobacter can colonize the niche.

#microbiome #HostMicrobe #Drosophila #DrosophilaGut #Acetobacter #Lactobacillus #Symbiosis

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36942-x

Oh neat! A print-out of a spreadsheet my mom made (or maybe the hospital prepared it for us? I dunno) when administering a slew of antibiotics through my central line back in 2004. I had broken my left arm (compound, open fracture of radius and ulna) from falling off a roof (after trying to jump onto it from a fence; what can I say, 14-year-old me was dumb). I developed a bone infection necessitating #Meropenum and #Vancomycin through the central line along with #Lactobacillus and #Nystatin orally via... tablets? I think? Also not sure if Lactobacillus is a medication, or the type of bacteria the med was combating... I also got some #Vicodin at some point it looks like, for pain.

In any event. I was a sick kid that kept his parents busy. This was right as high school was starting too.

I can also see/remember that I had to take #Benadryl to counter-act Red Man Syndrome from the Vancomycin. Yeah. It was tough staying awake in class for a while. To say nothing of the wound care I had to go to multiple times a week right before school.

Gut #microbiota as an antioxidant system in centenarians associated with high antioxidant activities of gut-resident #Lactobacillus

#Our findings underscore the existence of age-related trajectories in the human gut microbiota, and that distinct gut microbiota and gut-resident as antioxidant systems may contribute to health and longevity."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41522-022-00366-0