400: Considering Consumables' Community Correlations

This episode: Figuring out how gut communities change with
changes in diet!


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Show notes:
Microbe of the episode: Hepacivirus A

News item

Takeaways
Diet can play a big role in our health. It's not a magic pill
that can cure or prevent anything, but a good diet can
significantly reduce many health risks for the average person,
compared with a bad diet.

Diet also has a big effect on the community of microbes in our
gut, and this may play a role in the health effects we see from
diet, so understanding how food and microbes interact is
important. This study looked at the diet quality of participants
in several food categories, and correlated this with various
kinds of microbes found inside them.

Journal Paper:
Liu Y, Ajami NJ, El-Serag HB, Hair C, Graham DY, White DL, Chen
L, Wang Z, Plew S, Kramer J, Cole R, Hernaez R, Hou J, Husain N,
Jarbrink-Sehgal ME, Kanwal F, Ketwaroo G, Natarajan Y, Shah R,
Velez M, Mallepally N, Petrosino JF, Jiao L. 2019. Dietary
quality and the colonic mucosa–associated gut microbiome in
humans. Am J Clin Nutr 110:701–712.


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