Tag: British Gut Project

If there was a Nobel silver medal, I’d award it to Jeffrey Gordon and our gut microbes

Posted on: October 4, 2016

So says Tim Spector, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at King’s College London in this post that first appeared on The Conversation website on 4 October 2016, as gut microbes are being used, and actively explored, as exciting treatments for many common diseases.. ………….

Your gut bacteria don’t like junk food – even if you do

Posted on: May 10, 2015

Channel: Science and Environment

We humans are ecosystems. 100 trillion microbes live in our bodies, most of them essential to our health. And the microbes in our guts don’t like junk food even if we do, as Professor Tim Spector and his son, Tom, discovered………