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Do Probiotics Actually Do Anything?
Do Probiotics Actually Do Anything?

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Jun 28, 2020... There is an invisible universe hidden inside your body, it’s called the gut microbiome - a vast array of trillions of intestinal bacteria, hundreds of different species. They help digest your food in exchange for a warm, safe place to live. And we are only now starting to discover the gut microbiome plays a much larger role in our lives than we ever imagined.
Some of those bacteria found inside us are replicated in commercially manufactured mixtures called “probiotics.” You see them on grocery and pharmacy shelves, and they're recommended by your friends and often, by doctors like me.

TAGS: Biochemistry, Nutrition, Metabolism, Enzymes

Plant Power: Nourishing and Healing the World
Plant Power: Nourishing and Healing the World

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Dec 17, 2020... In this video discussion, renowned plant scientist Prof. Asaph Aharoni takes us on a tour of his lab before sitting down to talk about his research. He particularly focuses on using plants to improve health and tackle major problems such as hunger and malnutrition.

TAGS: Plants, Nutrition, World hunger

How Weizmann is Using Science to Provide Food Security
How Weizmann is Using Science to Provide Food Security

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Mar 17, 2021... Food insecurity – lack of consistent access to sufficient, nutritious food – was a major public-health concern before the pandemic. Climate change’s extended droughts, destructive fires and storms, and rising waters are wiping out resources in many areas, notably India and Africa. Poverty is another contributing factor, particularly in cities with “food deserts” where it is hard to find fresh fruit and vegetables and other healthy options. (Interestingly, the World Bank reports that “children who are properly nourished during the first 1,000 days of their lives are 33% more likely to escape poverty as adults.”)

TAGS: Plants, Nutrition, World hunger, Children

New Immune Players Involved in Metabolic Liver Disease
New Immune Players Involved in Metabolic Liver Disease

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May 19, 2021... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—May 19, 2021—Our livers work hard to perform a significant range of activities: helping us digest food, maintaining body temperature, and serving as an important checkpoint of the immune system for everything that we eat. It is inside the liver that the unique, rich, and complex network of immune cells and pathways is set up to decide whether a food particle is harmless or a dangerous pathogen that should be neutralized and removed. The liver is, therefore, very sensitive to the food we consume, and sometimes a poor diet can induce a serious dysregulation of the immune activities within it.

TAGS: Immune system, Nutrition, Metabolism, Organs

Growing Food with Air and Solar Power: More Efficient Than Planting Crops
Growing Food with Air and Solar Power: More Efficient Than Planting Crops

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Jun 22, 2021... A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, the University of Naples Federico II, the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences has found that making food from air would be far more efficient than growing crops. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their analysis and comparison of the efficiency of growing crops (soybeans) and using a food-from-air technique.

TAGS: Earth, Nutrition

Sweetness That Comes at a Price: Sugar Substitutes May Affect the Human Body in Unanticipated Ways
Sweetness That Comes at a Price: Sugar Substitutes May Affect the Human Body in Unanticipated Ways

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Aug 19, 2022... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—August 19, 2022—Non-nutritive sweeteners – also known as sugar substitutes or artificial sweeteners – are supposed to deliver all the sweetness of sugar without the calories. But a controlled trial conducted by Weizmann Institute of Science researchers, published today in Cell, suggests that contrary to previous belief, such sweeteners are not inert: They do have an effect on the human body. In fact, some can alter human consumers’ microbiomes – the trillions of microbes that live in our gut – in a way that can change a person’s blood sugar levels. And the effects these sweeteners produce vary greatly among different people.

TAGS: Medicine, Biology, Bacteria, Nutrition, Metabolism, Blood, Immunology

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