LIFESCI 2N03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 80: 16S Ribosomal Rna, Random Forest, Bifidobacterium
18 Apr 2016
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People have discovered that people who have more fat, carbs, protein in their food have different gut compositions. Bad gut flora"s can actually cause disease. Messing with the flora early in life can cause problems. Baby born with c section have different for a to normal. Some people never recover from affecting their gut flora. Think of modulating and resetting your flora. Experiments in mouse are showing that explorative behaviour in mice is determined by what flora they have. Gut bacteria that prevent growth impairments transmitted by microbiota from malnourished children. Most of the bacteria in our environment we haven"t figured out how to grow it very well understand the figures and experiments of this before the xam. Malnutrition estimated to contribute to > 1/3 of al child deaths. Multiple factors contribute to malnutriotn: poor feeding practice. Persistant diarrhea, pneumonia, measals, malaria etc anything going on with our gut.
