A new paper from Ohio State University can be considered a giant endorsement for yogurt that makes you poop – but unfortunately for giddy food corporations hoping to gain some scientific credibility it is only in mice, and therefore EXPLORATORY.
Because mice are not little people.
You just wouldn’t know that from the school’s press release, which alleges pesticides are ruining your microbiome and probiotics may save us, a leap so far beyond the scope of the study we have to wonder if the academics involved are about to launch a new line of supplements.
Like epigenetics and fMRI, microbiome hype proceeded from a kernel of scientific truth, some bacteria are good and patients depleted absolutely benefit from transplants, but then became a catch-all for anything and everything companies wanted to link to ‘gut health.’
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Once a fad catches on a whole lot of university scholars will rush to endorse it.
