Fermented foods contain bacteria that will help build the gut microbiome. There are several foods and food supplements that contain probiotic bacteria. These include dietary supplements, pharmaceutical products, medical foods, and infant formula; fermented foods like...
The Human Microbiome Project – http://hmpdacc.org/- (HMP) was launched in 2008. It extends another ambitious global project- the Human Genome Project. HMP seeks to understand the metagenome (the combined genomes of all the microbes) of 300 healthy people. Five...
According to Robert Hutkins, professor of food science at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, our gut microbiota contains tens of trillions of microorganisms from more than 1,000 different species having a cumulative genetic base of more than 3 million genes. He also...
