Do we know which bacteria/microbiota is causing this? Any benefits from taking probiotics?
Do you but I dunno if asking HN for advice on Alzheimer's prevention is the move
Scientists discover links between Alzheimer's disease and gut microbiota
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Re: Scientists discover links between Alzheimer's disease and gut microbiota
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been on a journey of hyper-optimisation of my nutrition for various goals (sport performance, health, intellectual performance, etc). Mediterranean diet seem to be the GOAT in most cases
Unless you are Asian, or an Inuit. Genetics matter. Eat like your great grandmother.
what if your great grandmother had Alzheimer's
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#123Does anyone know if there is correlative data showing lower incidents of Alzheimer's among people who've had a GI reboot with antibiotics?
or how to find it?
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#124... in rats.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fecal transplants are used to repopulate the gut of someone when necessary - for example after strong antibiotics! You can use flora of someone living in your household, as you probably share a lot of flora by being in the same environement and sharing food. Edit0: Not "you can use" as in "do this at home" but in the sense of "it's an option your healthcare provider might offer. I worded it odd.
C Diff was in a recent Southpark Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENEBRFOVuXI
The spice must flow.
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#126If you look at the scatter graphs, it's not terribly impressive. Lots of overlap, and most of the results show no difference. The one that does show a large difference still has a lot of overlap in the scatter graph, and it seems to be some outliers that bring down the mean value. It's kind of an extraordinary claim, which requires extraordinary evidence. This isn't that. What interests me more is why HN users keep p…
almost everyone on HN is interested in biology and especially biohacking but does not actually realise they have none of the necessary expertise to judge claims coming from that field; the level of discourse on these topics is sometimes worse than what I spot on reddit
Pish Posh! My understanding of C pointers makes me one of the smartest people in the world! Why else would I have cleared the hurdle at $COMPANY during a tremendous bull market!
Clearly I can learn any discipline by mucking about for a few afternoons. What is a billion years of natural selection to my towering intellect?
Re: Scientists discover links between Alzheimer's disease and gut microbiota
#127It seems like they killed the gut bacteria with antibiotics, then transferred the bacteria from alzheimer's patients, causing symptoms. I wonder if a second gut transplant from non-alzheimer's patients would reverse it?
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#128I wonder if simply taking antibiotics at some point, clearing everything out and repopulating the flora could help? My guess is no - that something in the system is triggered by the fecal transplant but that gut flora isn't the main source, but it would be an interesting thing to look at. I'm not in this field and do not know how to mine this data or properly posit the question, but maybe something along the lines of…
N=1. I had various digestion problems, probably due to gut flora imbalances. After several years of trying to fix the problem with diet changes suggested by my doctor (more fiber), I traveled abroad and came home with a very nasty food borne illness. After one Z-pack and several days of being "backed up", my gut was suddenly back to normal and has been fine since.
Can you explain Z pack and backed up?
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#129Are shady fecal transplant clinics a thing yet? Take these antibiotics for a week, then we’ll hose fecal matter from healthy, young, thin people into your intestines like a reverse enema. Move over sperm banks and blood banks, the poop bank is much easier. Only sorta joking.
This was an entire episode of South Park last year.
Re: Scientists discover links between Alzheimer's disease and gut microbiota
#130As someone who used to research neurogenesis in rats - there isn't great evidence that adult mammalian neurogenesis occurs in humans, so don't assume that this will translate to humans.