Food supplement found to alter gut in resolving effects of malnutrition Research into a food supplement for malnourished children is offering insights into how gut bacteria may affect growth as it appears to ‘repair’ disrupted microbiomes and effectively address the effects of malnutrition.
Writing in the
New England Journal of Medicine, a 3-month course of the supplement was enough to increase 21 types of beneficial bacteria numbers as well as a double the growth rate of the children.
Commenting on the proof-of-concept clinical trial, Senior Author Dr Jeffrey Gordon says,
“Malnutrition has proven extraordinarily difficult to treat.
“Standard calorie-dense therapeutic foods have been shown to prevent the deaths of malnourished children but have been ineffective in overcoming growth stunting and other damaging effects of malnutrition, including impaired brain development, bone growth and immune function.”
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Dr. Michael Mina On Morning Edition
The government s decision to pause distribution of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is a big reminder of how easily things can go wrong, and how lucky we have been in the vaccine effort until now. It s also raised a lot of questions about our reliance on vaccines with COVID and the effectiveness of our rollout plan. Dr. Michael Mina, assistant professor of epidemiology at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, joined GBH s Morning Edition to discuss the vaccines and the possibility of herd immunity. This transcript has been edited for length and clarity.
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