Show 1321: Rebalancing Our Microbiome Through Personalized Nutrition and Viruses

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This week on our nationally syndicated radio show, we consider how to maintain a healthy balance in our gut microbiome. Each of us carries a vast collection of microbes in our digestive tracts. Although we usually think first of bacteria, there’s also an enormous number of viruses that feed on the bacteria. Could these bacteriophages, […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at people's pharmacy.com.
0:15.0	What happens when the bacteria in our digestive tracks gets out of balance?
0:19.0	Could viruses that eat them come to the rescue?
0:22.0	This is the people's pharmacy with... viruses that eat them come to the rescue?
0:23.0	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grayden. Dr. Aaron Eleanor has been studying the microbiome for decades. His latest research involves
0:40.4	bacteriophages. These viruses live on specific bacteria. Could we harness them to
0:46.4	our advantage? Diet soft drinks are extremely popular. How do the artificial sweeteners they contain affect our
0:55.1	microbiome? Not everyone reacts to these sugar substitutes in the same way.
0:59.5	Differences in our microbiota help explain why personalized nutrition is so important.
1:05.4	Coming up on the people's pharmacy, we learn how we can rebalance our microbiome with nutrients and viruses.
1:17.0	In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, Australian researchers have found that the impact of COVID-19 infection on the brain
1:22.0	could mean trouble in the future.
1:24.0	Using laboratory techniques, the scientists grew microglia brain cells
1:29.0	and infected them with SARS-Covi too.
1:32.0	In response, the microglia became inflamed, just as they would
1:36.9	in a brain developing Parkinson or Alzheimer disease. Such neurodegenerative conditions take years to show themselves with the
1:45.2	inflammation slowly but inexorably killing neurons. The spike protein from the
1:51.2	virus was enough to trigger inflammation, but the process was more rapid when the cells were already primed to develop Parkinson disease.
2:00.0	One Bright Spot is a drug currently under development at the University of
2:03.6	Queensland to treat Parkinson's disease. It was effective against this brain
2:08.5	inflammation. Testing it in mice as well as in microgli cultures,
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