A gut bacterium as a fountain of youth? Well, let’s start with reversing insulin resistance

www.orlandosentinel.com ^ | 11/15/2018 | Melissa Healy

[wintertime]

Good news! Thanks for posting.

[Texan5]

Thanks!

[meatloaf]

They have absolutely no Alermansia in their gut.

[Long Jon No Silver]

Margerines are disgusting. I remember my dear old mum buying a fridge back in the 1960’s. It came loaded with some food as part of the deal. One of the foods was a 2 foot long extrusion of margerine wrapped in red plastic. I hated it then and loathe it to this day. Any vegetable based muck that is solid at room temp is lethal. The big grain multinationals started the anti dairy hysteria. They turned the food pyramid upside down. I eat some grains (oats mostly for breakfast), but don’t make them a big part of my diet like we have been told for decades. If a person just ditched solid at room temp oils in their diet and over consumption of fruit juices they could make a big difference in health. Living a rustic life in a big urban environment is not that hard. Nor should a hectic life preclude it. Mind you, I wouldn’t want to be in a city when the SHTF. Don’t fancy being eaten. Or ending up as a resource to make food ( Soylent Green and Logan’s Run). But the rise of neo Commies might just bring that about.

[Texan5]

Packaged fruit juices are mostly sugar-not real juice-fresh, whole fruit only for me. You’re right about the oils at room temp-
olive oil is not solid at room temp-neither is avocado, coconut or any other edible oil that isn’t processed-additives make the processed crap stay solid...

I’ve lived as far away from cities as possible-commuting to work there when necessary, until I was finally able to set myself up to work for myself-now I only go there when it is my turn to visit my guy’s house-and it creeps me out-too much noise 24/7, traffic and exhaust smells, lights on all night-he lives in a gated enclave I could not afford, but there are bars on everyone’s windows and doors-so it isn’t very safe for the high price, is it? When/if the SHTF, if he isn’t with me out here in well-armed rural redneck land he will be trapped in that fancy enclave with the neighbors when the hungry mob comes to steal all their stuff, and worse...

[dragonblustar]

I love kombucha and use that to make my starter for sour dough bread. I like Kefir but very time I bought it, it would mold up pretty fast.

[MomwithHope]

Interesting. We like sour dough bread but never wanted to get a sourdough starter started. Did not think of kombucha - clever! If you bought your kefir ready bottled at the store we found Lifeway Kefir to be a very good brand.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger. Bravo to Akkermansia muciniphila.

[AdmSmith]

There is an explosion of studies related to the guts in the intestines. This bug is just one. Here is a good article:

The gut microbiota and host health: a new clinical frontier

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4752653/

and this is about the present bug:
Next-Generation Beneficial Microbes: The Case of Akkermansia muciniphila

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5614963/

There are two clinical trials:
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/record/NCT02637115?term=Akkermansia+muciniphila&rank=1

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03547440?term=Akkermansia+muciniphila&rank=2