Bring it on! It should be an app on everyone’s phone!
Let me guess: it ends up looking like a BuzzFeed or Facebook quiz: When I go to a party, I:
Sit in a corner and talk to the dog
Snork down all of the chips
Steal the chip and dip bowls and hide in a bedroom
Steal the chip and dip bowls and hide in a bedroom with my best friend and watch TV
Steal the chip and dip bowls and then throw up later
I’m hanging with the dog myself.
Makes sense to me. I think if most of us pay attention we can probably learn a lot of this on our own based on how we feel after eating certain foods, but I’m sure there are unusual combinations that may have benefit (or be less detrimental) that we are unlikely to stumble onto without a guide.
I’ve often wondered why Google doesn’t hire 10,000 interns from around the world for 1 summer. Have each of them interview 1,000 people. Find out what they typically eat, how they live (walk a lot? exercise? what type?), ask them some basic health questions, swab their cheek and record their weight and age.
At the end of the summer feed it all into a computer and I bet we’d know more about diet, exercise and longevity than we’ve learned in 500 years.
That’s the inside of their cheeks, obviously!
I am underwhelmed.
The volunteers were ‘normal’ (not otherwise defined in the article, unless I missed it in a quick read; were hemoglobin A1c’s done on them?), and there is no known meaningful benefit of having a two-hour PP blood glucose of 150 vs 170 vs 120. Eat the same carb, same amount two different days, get two different spike results. Changing gut bugs? What to do?
A higher spike may mean latent or occult diabetes: in a formal glucose tolerance test, 2hr PP glucose of >180 is abnormal. The gold standard.
Strikes me as pop science, the generation of lots of data which is actually just noise-yielding scattergrams. The glycemic index has been known for about 20 years but has not been put to meaningful use…maybe because it is of limited utility. From Wiki: “The American Diabetes Association supports [sic] glycemic index but warns that the total amount of carbohydrate in the food is still the strongest and most important indicator, and that everyone should make their own custom method that works best for them.”
Makes the people feel like Wow! Lotsa good stuff going on, though. Fund them, fund them! More “research”!
The best research begins with asking good and rigorous and clear question(s). A disappearing art.
Rufus: can’t learn much about longevity in a 5 year clinical trial!
The next step is to find which intestinal bacteria are most helpful overall and to raise them along with their symbiotic cousins in a culture which people can take as a nutritional supplement. The oral approach needs more research but someday it will happen. There are probiotics for sale at health food stores already but they need to be improved.
Unstable blood glucose is the only disease caused or exacerbated by harmful bacteria in the gut. Clostridium difficile colitis can be life threatening, is often difficult to treat, and is usually cured by a stool transplant via the rectum during colonoscopy repeated as necessary. Some patients with chronic ulcerative colitis also achieve remission through repeated stool transplants although there is no way to predict which patients will benefit.
Sorry for the typo, I meant to say unstable glucose is not the only disease caused or exacerbated by harmful bacteria the gut.
Concerning what Dennis wrote.
This is that “micro bacteria” I was talking about in the guts several years ago, when doctors here said their professions knew more about how the human body worked than the usual un credentialed crowd.
They, the credentialed academics and doctors talking about stuff outside their field even, don’t know much of anything outside their specialties, as it turns out. And what they do know, is wrong, or will soon be wrong.
Bring it on! It should be an app on everyone’s phone!
Let me guess: it ends up looking like a BuzzFeed or Facebook quiz: When I go to a party, I:
Sit in a corner and talk to the dog
Snork down all of the chips
Steal the chip and dip bowls and hide in a bedroom
Steal the chip and dip bowls and hide in a bedroom with my best friend and watch TV
Steal the chip and dip bowls and then throw up later
I’m hanging with the dog myself.
Makes sense to me. I think if most of us pay attention we can probably learn a lot of this on our own based on how we feel after eating certain foods, but I’m sure there are unusual combinations that may have benefit (or be less detrimental) that we are unlikely to stumble onto without a guide.
I’ve often wondered why Google doesn’t hire 10,000 interns from around the world for 1 summer. Have each of them interview 1,000 people. Find out what they typically eat, how they live (walk a lot? exercise? what type?), ask them some basic health questions, swab their cheek and record their weight and age.
At the end of the summer feed it all into a computer and I bet we’d know more about diet, exercise and longevity than we’ve learned in 500 years.
That’s the inside of their cheeks, obviously!
I am underwhelmed.
The volunteers were ‘normal’ (not otherwise defined in the article, unless I missed it in a quick read; were hemoglobin A1c’s done on them?), and there is no known meaningful benefit of having a two-hour PP blood glucose of 150 vs 170 vs 120. Eat the same carb, same amount two different days, get two different spike results. Changing gut bugs? What to do?
A higher spike may mean latent or occult diabetes: in a formal glucose tolerance test, 2hr PP glucose of >180 is abnormal. The gold standard.
Strikes me as pop science, the generation of lots of data which is actually just noise-yielding scattergrams. The glycemic index has been known for about 20 years but has not been put to meaningful use…maybe because it is of limited utility. From Wiki: “The American Diabetes Association supports [sic] glycemic index but warns that the total amount of carbohydrate in the food is still the strongest and most important indicator, and that everyone should make their own custom method that works best for them.”
Makes the people feel like Wow! Lotsa good stuff going on, though. Fund them, fund them! More “research”!
The best research begins with asking good and rigorous and clear question(s). A disappearing art.
Rufus: can’t learn much about longevity in a 5 year clinical trial!
The next step is to find which intestinal bacteria are most helpful overall and to raise them along with their symbiotic cousins in a culture which people can take as a nutritional supplement. The oral approach needs more research but someday it will happen. There are probiotics for sale at health food stores already but they need to be improved.
Unstable blood glucose is the only disease caused or exacerbated by harmful bacteria in the gut. Clostridium difficile colitis can be life threatening, is often difficult to treat, and is usually cured by a stool transplant via the rectum during colonoscopy repeated as necessary. Some patients with chronic ulcerative colitis also achieve remission through repeated stool transplants although there is no way to predict which patients will benefit.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/824930#vp_2
Sorry for the typo, I meant to say unstable glucose is not the only disease caused or exacerbated by harmful bacteria the gut.
Concerning what Dennis wrote.
This is that “micro bacteria” I was talking about in the guts several years ago, when doctors here said their professions knew more about how the human body worked than the usual un credentialed crowd.
They, the credentialed academics and doctors talking about stuff outside their field even, don’t know much of anything outside their specialties, as it turns out. And what they do know, is wrong, or will soon be wrong.
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