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Want to Lose Weight? Ask Your Gut

October 5, 2017 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Want to lose weight, particularly body fat?  Choose the right gut bacteria. They’ve already chosen you. But can you select them? A recent study in Copenhagen checked gut bacteria before starting  some overweight people on a half year diet.  Using a crude measure of different bacteria populations (high Prevotella to Bacteroides ratio,) the high ratio group who ate […]

Can Bacteria Make You Fat? (3/1/15)

March 1, 2015 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Bug-Brain-Waistline Forget the screaming headlines and the infomercials – dieting, weight gain and weight loss are not simple matters. Did the faecal transplant received from a daughter make a Rhode Island woman ravenous, rapidly fattening despite liquid diets, exercise and strict medical supervision? Are the supplements sold everywhere as probiotics the answer to irritable bowel […]

Your cell phone is a biological part of you (11/11/11)

November 11, 2011 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Your Hand, Your Cellphone  You’re an ecosystem – a complicated one.  Your  cell phone is just one component of it – and an inescapable part of your biology. Fortunately, it’s one you can control. A recent UK survey from 12 separate districts found bacteria on 92% of cell phones – and only 82% of human […]

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