And if we haven ’ t ruined cheese for you , other favorite fermented foods , like beer , sauerkraut and pickled cucumbers , might also benefit the microbes in your gut . |
rapid response system along the way — which could one day form the basis for new medical diagnostics and therapeutics .
With Pieter Dorrestein , Ph . D ., and Embriette Hyde , Ph . D ., Knight pioneered the method on craft
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Our microbiomes are increasingly recognized for their roles in everything from asthma to obesity . But microbiome analysis can take months or even years — |
brewers and other fermenters to see if people who regularly make and eat fermented foods share microbes in common with the foods they create . |
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too long for the information to be medically useful .
A team led by Rob Knight , Ph . D ., director of the UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation , was able to achieve microbiome
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The result : Thanks to their likely greater consumption of fermented foods , fermenters were found to have above-average species diversity in their gut microbiomes , often associated with better health . |
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analysis in an unprecedented 48 hours , creating a first-of-its-kind |
— HEATHER BUSCHMAN , PH . D . ’ 08 |
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BEER ( naturally fermented and unpasteurized ) |
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