• 316: Food Addiction and the Gut Microbiome

  • Aug 23 2024
  • Length: 56 mins
  • Podcast

316: Food Addiction and the Gut Microbiome

  • Summary

  • TWiM describes experiments to explore gut microbiota signatures of vulnerability to food addiction in mice and humans, and how a phage tail-like protein suppresses competitors in populations of bacteria of plants.

    Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Petra Levin and Michele Swanson.

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    • Gut microbiota and food addiction (Probiotics)
    • Blautia may have probiotic properties (Gut Microbes)
    • Blautia wexlerae ameliorates obesity and type 2 diabetes (Nat Commun)
    • Phage tail–like bacteriocin suppresses competitors (Science)
    • What is a bacteriocin? (Front Micro)
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