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Microbes, Mycotoxins, Milk Fats, and the Na:K Ratio - What's the Latest in Nutrition Science in February 2019?

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If you want to keep up with the very latest nutrition researc, be sure to follow the SuppVersity on Facebook ! Nutrition sciences are all about the microbiome, these days. Against that background you probably won't be surprised that my brief overview of studies from the latest edition of  Molecular Nutrition & Food Research  features 3+1 studies that deal with the food <> microbiome <> health interaction or could at least be related to it... before we get to the details, I want to warn you, though: The way people ascribe everything to gut bugs and try to sell random probiotics to customers is not science. That's quackery ! Review older articles about the gut - health  axis.at the SuppVersity Bugs Dictate What You Crave Sweeteners & Your Gut Foods, Not Ma- cros for the Gut Lactulose For Gut & Health Probiotics Don't Cut Body Fat Microbiome <> Bread's H. Effects Harnessing the microbiome to battle the ill-effects ...
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Whole vs. Skim Milk -- Increased HDL and no Effect on LDL, Glucose and Insulin in 3-Wk Crossover Study... But WAIT!

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"Whole" or "skim" - eventually it may make much less of a difference than either low-fat or high-fat proponents may still believe.... that is if you're young and healthy and not doing the "1 gallon o' milk"-routine, bro ;-) Now that more and more people begin to get that eggs are not toxic cholesterol bombs, it's about time that scientists re-address the myth that putting the "whole" in the "milk" would have serious health consequences... oh, wait: Eventually, Sara Engel and colleagues from the  University of Copenhagen  found statistically sign. health consequences - allegedly heart-healty ones! More specifically, the authors observed that only 3-weeks on whole vs. skim milk will significantly elevate the HDL levels of 18 healthy adults who were randomly assigned to a sequence of treatments consisting of 0.5 L/d of whole milk and skimmed milk as part of their habitual diet. You can learn more about dairy at the Su...
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Dairy and (Pre-)Diabetes - Re-Evaluated: It's Complicated -- Generally Protective Effects, Though (Risk Reduction ~40%)

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If you lump all forms of dairy together into the "total dairy" category, US citizens have a ~40% reduced risk of prediabetes when they consume more than 14 servings of dairy per week. And that's by no means the only novel insight from a recent study by USDA researchers... When women tell you "it's complicated" that's usually a sign you're in trouble. When scientists tell you "it's complicated", it's usually a smart version of telling you: "We don't know nothing, bro..." With that being said, I didn't find the line "it's complicated" in the latest paper by scientists from the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University  (Hruby 2017) and still I cannot shake the feeling that... you guessed it: "It's complicated" ;-) Yet even though it is obviously "complicated", the US dietary guidelines have consistently recommended 2–3 servings dairy/d for...
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Protein Supps + Synthesis After 'Cardio': Milk (Natural 2:8 Whey:Casein) Protein is Best! Plus: 40g May Be Ideal Dose

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Even though the study at hand has been conducted in an endurance training scenario, there's no reason to believe that the superiority of milk protein, the natural mix of whey and casein would be a "cardio-specific" thing. In fact, evidence to the contrary has been discussed previously, here  and  here . Whey, casein, soy or the rarely used alternative, milk protein, what's best to kickstart the protein synthetic machinery even after endurance workouts? The absorption kinetics of the different proteins, the effects of which a group of scientists from Japan recently re-assessed would suggest that the answer is clear: whey protein, it's the fastest of the four proteins, contains the highest amount of BCAAs (esp. the mTOR- and MPS promoter leucine) content and has been repeatedly shown to rapidly cause significant hyperamonoacidemia (=extremely elevated amino acid levels in the blood | Boirie. 1997; Dangin. 2001; Norton. 2009). In spite of the fact that whey is ...
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