SUMMARY: Microbiome Awareness TMAO was summarized in the May 26th seminar, and I suggested condiment size portions for red meat regardless of meat quality (pastured or confined feed lot operations). Carnitine in red meat acts as an antioxidant and plays a crucial role in the mitochondria—the energy-producing structures in cells—notably in muscles, including heart muscle. But carnitine has a dark side — TMAO. This post shares TMAO follow-up so that all can benefit, even those unable to attend! A subsequent post will share more conversation from that evening, but TMAO is a lot of good information, and it deserves a post of its own.
Category Archives: Wellness Vendor (Microbiome focus)
Revised Date, Pittsburgh Microbiome Awareness Seminar
Summary: There has been such a great response to the Pittsburgh Microbiome Awareness Seminar posted earlier today, that we have changed the date and time for the presentation to accommodate a larger than originally anticipated audience. I guess this is a good thing!?!
The Revised Date, Pittsburgh Microbiome Awareness Seminar is:
Thursday, May 26, 7:00 -8:30 PM,
the address remains the same: Treesdale Community Center, One Treesdale Commons Drive, Gibsonia, PA 15044.
The original post, PITTSBURGH MICROBIOME AWARENESS SEMINAR, has been updated to reflect the new date and time, but I am posting this separately to make certain all of you, especially those that have RSVP’d and are attending, are aware of this change.
Pittsburgh Microbiome Awareness Seminar
SUMMARY: Don’t miss this FREE Pittsburgh Microbiome Awareness Seminar on cutting edge research! Finally… Pittsburgh is beginning to plan integration of the healing diet tenets of Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) into clinic for an autoimmune! UPDATE: There has been such a great response to this seminar that we have revised the date to Thursday, May 26, 7:00 -8:30 PM, in order to accommodate a larger than originally anticipated audience. The address remains the same: Treesdale Community Center, One Treesdale Commons Drive, Gibsonia, PA 15044. RSVP Today!! #biomeonboardawareness #microbiome #guthealth #tadafit
Ferment Consumer Profile Opportunity for American Gut Studies
Summary: Just sharing a fun educational event, that literally could change your health, wellness, and vitality, occurring this Sunday, February 28, 2016, in Pittsburgh should you be nearby. The FREE event is Pittsburgh’s Fermentation Festival; I’ll be attending and profiling ferment consumers and vendors for consideration in upcoming American Gut fermenting microbiome studies! Stop by and fill out the questionnaire!
Be a part of this unique FREE Ferment Consumer Profile Opportunity for American Gut fermenting microbiome studies and help further the understanding of the “How” and “Why” ferments modulate our immune system! For an added bonus… attend 5 workshops and learn how to ferment while you are at the festival. The workshops are led by an incredible battery of knowledge! I’ll be sharing how to make lactose-free grassfed yogurt that is part of the healing diet protocols (PALEO (some camps), SCD, GAPS, UMass IBD-AID). Learn why fermented and traditional foods is part of WHAT EATING REAL WHOLE FOODS LOOKS LIKE. For a start, read below for Cleveland Clinic’s 5 reasons why you should be consuming ferments.
Optimal Microbiome Diet From American Gut Data
SUMMARY (updated Aug 2018): Dr. Rob Knight’s talk, Saturday, October 18, 2014, listed eleven factors that optimize the gut microbiome based on the American Gut Data cautioning all is preliminary. These are listed below along with an interesting article titled: “Can We Eat Our Way To A Healthier Microbiome? It’s Complicated,” in which Dr. Knight and Jeff Leach (founders of crowd sourcing project “American Gut”) discuss the microbiome diet. A KEY finding was that the more vegs consumed (30 different each week is BEST), the more diverse the microbiome, and that is thought to be associated with health and improved immune status since MANY chronic diseases (see the below Table) have changes in microbiome diversity AND composition, [Cantinean et al 2018]. A 2018 update on the American Gut data just published, [McDonald et al 2018], and it still says to eat 30 different vegs each week! This post also provides insight into what the microbiome experts are saying about translation of microbiome research into clinical practice. And last, my synopsis of Dr. Knight’s talk is provided (see below the light bulb) along with my listing of fav microbiome researcher labs whose work is discussed in this post! Use them and PUBMED for your own disease prevention or mitigation research. Always. Stick with the evidence for answers as this blog does.