Christopher X J. Jensen
Associate Professor, Pratt Institute

Additional evidence that obesity may be due to environment, not just habits

Posted 09 Sep 2013 / 0

NPR Shots “Gut Bacteria We Pick Up As Kids Stick With Us For Decades” NPR Shots “Staying Healthy May Mean Learning To Love Our Microbiomes” NPR Shots “Diverse Gut Microbes, A Trim Waistline And Health Go Together” NPR Shots “How A Change In Gut Microbes Can Affect Weight” What I find interesting here is the Read More

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A tour of your diverse microbiome, and the things that might deplete that diversity

Posted 09 Sep 2013 / 0

NPR Morning Edition “From Birth, Our Microbes Become As Personal As A Fingerprint” It’s a bit corny, but this is a great tour of our diverse microbiome. It is critical that people start to recognize how potentially-damaging overuse of antibiotics and fear of bacteria could be to our health. It will be exciting to see Read More

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