Jon Jon is a health, fitness, and wellness professional working in the Washington DC metro area. His latest project is the Microbiome Bulletin, a site dedicated to chronicling the other half of our health and fitness. The non-human, microbial half.
The Prebiotic Case Test Results: The Pitfalls of Prebiotic Supplements! So, what happens when you spend nearly two months supplementing with 24 grams of prebiotic fiber a day? Well, for one thing, you get a little gassy. And for another, your microbial diversity, a generally desirable attribute, can actually get worse! See here for...
Recovery and Reset, Week 1 April 15, 2019 through April 21, 2019 What a week. The tail end of the prior week, Saturday, I flew to Key West on a long-planned trip with some old college buddies. I knew what this trip was going to be about, and so took it as an opportunity...
How the Overuse of Antibiotics is Fueling Our Modern Plagues By Martin J. Blaser MD (Please see our Affiliate Disclosure for linking policies.) Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Stars This is an impressively well documented book, in part because much of it is based on author Martin J. Blaser’s own research and experiences. In fact,...
Week Three of the Base Case 2 Testing Period April 8, 2019 through April 14, 2019 The third and final week of my “Base Case 2” testing period, in which I followed my regular diet and general lifestyle, having ceased all additional probiotic and prebiotic supplementation. I took a sample Friday and sent it...
Week Two of the Base Case 2 Testing Period April 1, 2019 through April 7, 2019 The second of what I anticipate will be three weeks total of another “Base Case” testing period, in which I will follow my regular diet, and general lifestyle, totally absent any extra probiotic or prebiotic supplementation at the...
What Happens When You Supplement With A Lot of Prebiotics and A Lot of Probiotics? As It Turns Out, Quite A Lot! The results of the Prebiotic-Probiotic Case are in. What was it all about? A personal experiment in intensive supplementation with both prebiotics and probiotics to see if it was truly possible to...
Week One of the Base Case 2 Testing Period March 25, 2019 through March 31, 2019 New to the MicrobioME Project? New to Microbiome Bulletin? If so, you might want to check out, The MicroboME Project, the About “Us” page, the Microbiome Glossary, and Microbiome Hype. And you can check all the MicrobioME Project...
The Latest in Microbiome Research Involving Prebiotic Fiber Your grandmother may have called it “roughage.” When you think of fiber, an image of the “sticks and twigs”-like cereal and dry bran muffins you were forced to choke down as a kid might spring to mind. But there is a lot more to fiber than...
Week Four of the Prebiotic Case Testing Period March 18, 2019 through March 24, 2019 New to the MicrobioME Project? New to Microbiome Bulletin? If so, you might want to check out, The MicroboME Project, the About “Us” page, the Microbiome Glossary, and Microbiome Hype. And you can check all the MicrobioME Project posts...
When Good Microorganisms Turn Bad We are constantly bombarded with advertisements extolling the many virtues of consuming probiotics, whether in pill form, as a component of traditional fermented foods, and more recently in unlikely places as an additive to protein shakes, coffee, and, yes,.. Coffee protein shakes. And while there is evidence suggesting there...