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Probiotics, the good microbes, have upended every facet of health.
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New blogs from ProbioticsNow
Smoky Meats? Trying to Quit
Summertime-- and the grilling is easy. Too easy perhaps. The ubiquitous hot dogs and burgers are the go-to toss on the barbecue grill. Searing animal flesh spills smoky flavors into the air, sending siren calls to all but the most nutrition-vigilant guest. But remind yourself of the downsides of grilled meats: High flames make these saturated fat, high cholesterol picnic foods even more lethal: heterocyclic amines and polycyclic [...]
Embrace Your Resistome
The next time you start a course of antibiotics, you may want to consider your resistome. While it sounds like a French labor movement, your resistome is much more flexible. A resistome is a personal set of antibiotic-resistant genes in bacteria which can be modified. "Antibiotic treatment leads to long-term enrichment of antibiotic resistance genes and promotes transfer to pathogens,” according to a reviewers Molly K Gibson and colleagues [...]
Kombucha: Alcoholic Drink or Not?
Kombucha, a fermented drink made by mixing tea and sugar with bacteria and yeast packs a punch in health benefits. The punch may also contain alcohol. According to the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB): “Under federal law, if the alcohol content of kombucha is 0.5% or more alcohol by volume, at any time during production, when bottled, or at any time after bottling, the kombucha is [...]