How Gut Bacteria Tell Their Hosts What to Eat according to : Scientific American

"One of the big evolutionary mysteries is why we lost the ability to produce essential amino acids," he says. Another group got a mix that had some of the amino acids needed to make protein but lacked essential amino acids that the host cannot synthesize by itself. "This shows that the gut microbiome has evolved to titrate only the normal essential amino acid intake," Ribeiro explains. First, they fed one group of flies a sucrose solution containing all the necessary amino acids. The researchers found the flies' amino acid levels were still low, indicating the bacteria were not simply replacing nutrients missing from the flies' diet by producing the amino acids themselves.




Would You Drink a Probiotic With the Gut Bacteria of Elite Athletes? What if we could tap the gut bacteria of elite athletes to produce customized probiotics—and what if those probiotics could give recipients access to some of the biological advantages that make those athletes elite? I think professional and elite athletes are certainly one form of elite phenotypes. C. difficile affects around 500,000 people a year, usually when antibiotics they take for surgery wipe out their gut microbiome. But how about an elite athlete's biology?

Are Gut Bacteria Linked to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?

To explore a potential association between chronic fatigue syndrome and an imbalance in the gut environment, researchers recruited 50 patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and 50 healthy peers from four U.S. cities. What the investigation found is that people with chronic fatigue syndrome "have different bacteria in their intestines than healthier people," Lipkin said. Whether these differences are merely a sign of chronic fatigue syndrome or an underlying cause isn't clear, said study lead author Dr. W. Ian Lipkin. By Alan MozesHealthDay ReporterTHURSDAY, April 27, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists have found differences in the gut bacteria of people with chronic fatigue syndrome versus their healthy peers. The finding is among the first to link abnormalities in the makeup of gut bacteria -- the "microbiome" -- and chronic fatigue, a mysterious and debilitating malady.


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