microbiome

Any person with even a minimal understanding of our gut microbiome would never argue for a relatively sterile gut.

Also, if this is true, you're getting closer to being able to 'hack' your own microbiome.

Not hard to find reasons for behavior or mood changes there even without addressing the microbiome.

Some labs utilize germ-free mice to investigate the causative role of the microbiome on the host.

Examples might be isolating novel enzymes for biocatalysis from the vast microbiome that remains to be explored, novelty decorative plants, etc...

To start with, what's the variation in microbiome from 10 samples taken throughout the same day, or even the same hour?

What is known is that the microbiome does have a larger role to play then we currently understand/realize.

This is probably because those people were already eating a very low-fiber (unhealthy) diet; the gut microbiome would adjust given more time.

Maybe in the long run it'll have bad effect on the microbiome, intestinal mucosa or on million other things in the human body.

Hmmm, They don't cover an important fact: Our intestinal microbiome of bugs that live inside our stomach, affecting our moods and behaviour [1].

Also, the other thing everyone underestimates is the microbiome as an entity.

Attempting to 'improve' your microbiome would likely be a mistake.

For me, the interesting thing is how much of a person's "scent" is derived from their microbiome?

"...is offering talented researchers with big ideas a grant of up to $100,000 of microbiome sampling kits" This is not a $100k grant, this is a grant of $100k worth of microbiome kits.

> “Right now, it’s a little bit of a Wild West as far as microbiome data management goes,” says Curtis Huttenhower, a computational biologist at the Harvard T.

Google brought up a few studies related to microbiomes but there doesn't seem to be any real answer on what a "good" microbiome is, or how deviations from normal are linked to other diseases, how much is dependent on diet (a lot i would think).