Comments on: Gut Microbes Contribute to Mysterious Malnutrition

By: vince

vince — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 03:39:52 +0000

right now the state of development of prebiotics is around the same as aspirin being administered as willow bark. Soon we wil have targeted probiotics – hopefully against obesity – as good as standard pharmaceuticals.

By: Camilo

Camilo — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 01:51:31 +0000

This shows how bad the nutrition is in the motherland of Africa. The Malawi have only two things to eat and they share it with rodents, and rodents have many bacteria and viruses within their teeth and that has high chance of killing us. Also, they dont have much of medical help and we need to lend our hand to them

By: Laura

Laura — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 02:00:15 +0000

Has anyone considered the simplest treatment of all? If fecal transplant works for infections, perhaps it could work for malnutrition. Like commenter ECS said – introduce the twin’s flora. See what happens.

By: tsb

tsb — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:55:27 +0000

Just curious. How did you find out the pre-story?

[I asked. -Ed]

By: ECS

ECS — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:42:40 +0000

Have they tried introducing the gut flora from the healthy twin into the gut of the sick twin?

By: Joris8pinter

Joris8pinter — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:12:54 +0000

Yes, I wondered about that too. What happened to the other two twins

By: Peter Hickey

Peter Hickey — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:34:24 +0000

“They eventually focused on 24 pairs of same-gender twins—9 of them stayed healthy, while in the other 13, one child developed kwashiorkor and the other did not.” – What about the other 2 pairs of twins? Did they both develop kwashiorkor?

By: JAD

JAD — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:24:20 +0000

My first thought upon reading this, sorry to say: I wonder how long until Hollywood socialites begin paying $100,000 a pop for injections of malnourishing microbiota?