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There's Microplastics in Our Poop! Wait! Do We Even Care? An Evidence-Based Estimate of our Microplastic Exposure and its Putative Effects on Gut-Health & Beyond

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It's impossible you haven't read or heard about this study! I guess by now, all of you will have heard that an internationally covered pilot study by Austrian researchers (Schwabl et al. 2018) that was presented earlier this week at the  UEG Week in Vienna  claims to have initial prove that "Microplastics Find Their Way Into [Our] Gut" ( NYTimes ). The results of the studies are all over the place and the (fearmongering) press coverage seems to convey only one message: "Uh oh, now we're doomed!" But, are we? I mean, we're talking about a study with N=8 subjects?! Moreover, no one questions our exposure to the sub-millimeter sized particles and the fact that we actually seem to poop them out would, after all, suggest that they do not accumulate in our bodies - that's good news, isn't it!? If MPs have ill health effects they are probably mediated via their effects on our gut-health Bugs Dictate What You Crave Sweeteners & You...
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SIBO & Probiotic Brain Fog in Long-Term Users of Common Probiotic Supplements (Mechanism: D-Lactic Acidosis)

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Feeling like your brain veiled in clouds? Could be the D-lactate from the gut bugs overpopulating your small intestine... and you know what: your fancy probiotic may have triggered it or made it worse. If you remember my article about SIBO , i.e. Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth from March 2017, you will remember that I listed probiotics as "anti-SIBO" tools. Back in the day when I wrote the article that was also the state of the art... pardon, research, which showed a significantly lower SIBO risk in people who consume a probiotic. Now, with the publication of the latest study from the Digestive Health Clinical Research Center at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University  ( Rao 2018 ) I will probably have to revise this article, as using a probiotic to prevent or even treat SIBO could very well backfire and make the classic symptoms like brain fog and bloating worse, not better. Learn more about probiotics and the microbiome a the SuppVersity Mi...
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Spore-Forming Probiotics - The Better Probiotics? Review

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Sauerkraut is one of the best known probiotic foods, but there's more: Kefir & yogurt, kimchi, kombucha, miso, pickles, apple cidar vinegar, and - as discussed recently - raw cheese. I found out rather accidentally that there is a potentially relevant difference between "probiotics" and "spore-forming probiotics". Relevant enough for me to believe that you should learn about this difference, as well. After all, it seems as if the spores, you will probably only know from anthrax, provide a solution to the #1 major obstacle of efficient probiotic therapies: the destruction and digestion of the life bacteria before they even reach their destination in the colon. If we go by the WHO definition probiotics are "live microorganisms which, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit on the host" (FAO/WHO. 2002) - spore-forming or not, stable or unstable freeze dried or encapsulated. You can learn more about the gut & your h...
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Health & Weight Loss Start in the Gut: Probiotics Trigger Fat Loss Without Dieting | Casein Improves Lipid Metabolism

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Gut health is "all the rage", lately. So even if it's true that this may be one of the most culpably neglected areas of research in the past century, we should still be careful not to hype the effect of the gut on your physique and health too much. Well, probiotics and the human microbiome (the one in the gut and  elsewhere) are all the rage, these days. Against that background, it's not really surprising that a probiotic supplement and thus a human microbiome modulator made it into the SuppVersity  news ( again ). What may be surprising, though, is the fact that casein didn't just do the same, but that its appearance here in the news is not  due to its muscle building prowess. Rather than that, casein made the cut, because a recent study by Francois Mariotti, et al. shows that - even in comparison to whey protein - casein attenuates the potentially unhealthy postprandial triglyceride response to a mixed high-fat meal in healthy, overweight men. You can lea...
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