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Studying How to Improve Health by Reshaping the Gut Microbiome
Researchers at McMaster University’s Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute are investigating how changes in the gut resident bacteria can lead to disease and developing strategies for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
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Are Your Drugs Right for Your Gut?
The Figeys Lab at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Medicine tailors nutrition and drugs to each person’s unique microbiome.
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Understanding the Microbiome: Discerning Fact From Fiction
Probiotic supplements to improve health. Medical treatments involving fecal exposure. Restrictive fad diets. The pros and cons of antibiotics. Risks associated with water-borne bacteria.
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What is the Microbiome, Why Do We Care, and What’s the Importance of Microbiome Research?
What exactly is the microbiota, how is that different from microbiome and why do we need to learn more about it through research?
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The Connection between the Microbiome and Crohn’s Disease
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affects so many people from young to all stages in life, 1/250 people have IBD. When someone asks what causes it, we say “we think you have a genetic predisposition and that somehow alters the way your immune system responds to the environment including the microbes that are in your gut”. Having said that we do not really understand what that means, we cannot tell you what triggers the disease or what changes in the gut microbiome cause the disease, we know some genes are associated with increased risk but we are not even sure how those genes or defects in those genes lead to the disease. There are a lot of unknowns.
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Sentinel North Spans Complexity Scales to Probe the Arctic Microbiome
Université Laval supports the deployment of novel technologies to shed light on the Arctic environmental microbiome and its impact on human health.
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The Microbiome as a Sentinel of the Changing Arctic
Sentinel North researchers are racing against climate change to uncover clues from the northern environment that could benefit the whole world.
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How Two Bodily Systems You May Not Have Heard of Are Affecting Your Health
Université Laval researchers are studying how the endocannabinoidome and gut microbiome influence your health.
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What is the Canadian Microbiome Initiative, what has it accomplished and what potential does it hold for the future?
Microbiome research has increased dramatically in recent years, unlocking a wealth of data that has yielded tremendous insight into the nature of the bacterial communities and their role in human health and disease.
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Your Unique Microbiome – Your Very Own Ecosystem of Health
While some bacteria cause illness, most of the bacteria that live in and on our bodies actually help keep us healthy.
