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The difference is well within the variation you'd expect from multiple samples, extraction, PCR, sequencing, day-to-day. Also, you're probably better off tryin
by sciencerobot 13y ago
The difference is well within the variation you'd expect from multiple samples, extraction, PCR, sequencing, day-to-day.
Also, you're probably better off trying to alter your gut microbiome through ingestion of probiotics.
Source: I am a PhD student research the human gut microbiome in connection with autoimmunity and have processed thousands of these samples using the exact same methodology as uBiome.
- JoeAltmaier 13y agoI'm curious: I've always suspected 'probiotics' are ineffective, like scattering a few daffodil seeds into a field of weeds. Either not a significant quantity to compete, or just 'food for bugs' which feeds everything indiscriminately.
- dsugarman 13y agoas someone with plenty of gastrointestinal issues, probiotics are a godsend
- stevewilhelm 13y agocurious to know if you have ever done a double blind test to determine if it's just a placebo effect?
- dsugarman 13y agoI haven't but I also am always in a lot less pain when I take them. Invariably I start to have problems when I forget to keep taking them. It got to a point when every time I complain about stomach pain, a co-worker asks if I am taking my probiotics and the answer is always no.
- jp555 13y agoDo we know specific pro-biotic species that have been found to be significantly more beneficial than the rest? How do we know? Does "pro-biotic" refer only to beneficial prokaryotic organisms or are there known beneficial "pro-biotic" foreign eukaryotes?
- sciencerobot 13y agoLots of correlations and associations but no Koch's Postulate as far as I know.
- blacksmith_tb 13y agoThere are some eukaryotes, yes, e.g. Saccharomyces boulardii.
- jp555 13y agoAh the yeasts! I recently heard that middle-eastern ancients regularly rubbed old-bread on wounds to speed recovery. Probably more for penicillin mold, but maybe the yeasts were at play as well?
- sakai 13y agoAside: would be very interested in connecting about a metagenomics project I've been working on. My email is in my profile if you want to reach out.