If I was in charge of a funding agency like the NIH, I would look into funding projects which explore the idea products which have the main purpose of killing 99.9% of bacteria. After learning about how there are many bacteria who are actually good, but end up getting washed away due to different product …
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writing exercise #14
My list: Heart diseases, cancers, diabetes, obesity, IBS, other GI diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, oral disease which leads to other issues, Crohn’s disease, some mental illnesses. I was able to list more diseases than in the first week of the course. I never realized how much the gut microbiome community can affect one’s overall health. For …
writing exercise #13
Can experiments detect differences that matter? Finding differences matters because if one variable changes or if anything slightly changes then results may be altered. These changes can determine whether a study is valid or not. Does the study show causation or correlation? Causation is shown by one directly affects the other. Shows that there’s a …
writing exercise #12
I always get nervous when there’s a peer review because I want to do a good job, but I get a little afraid that I might not do that. Some times I can get a little too critical and sometimes I’m really tired so I could’ve missed something. I felt good about reading someone else’s …
writing exercise #11
The process of peer review is quite simple. The purpose of a peer review is to determine whether the paper is up to standards before it is published. The paper is read by multiple people in the field and multiple factors will be looked at. Often times fact checking, originality, and the purpose are taken …
writing exercise #10
Microbial communities are capable of influencing the brain and mental states. One thing is stress on the body. Stress has been proven to lead to depression or anxiety. Scientists have discovered that this stress might actually alter the gut microbial community. Not only can external factors cause this, but also within the body such as …
writing exercise #9
There are multiple ways you could decrease exposure such as eating less food that have microbial communities in them. For instance, reduce your intake of yogurt or kimchee since these are fermented foods which contain a healthy amount of microbes. Washing your hands properly will reduces this for obvious reasons. Also, depending on how you …
writing exercise #8
Since it relates to my future career, I am interested in learning more about microbes and oral health as well as how that can spread to affect the body. We touched on this a bit this term and in high school I wrote a paper explaining why oral health was important and the microbial composition …
writing exercise #7
I would take antibiotics when there’s an infection that I’m battling. When I was younger, I would get ear infections quite frequently and I was prescribed amoxicillin. I think that’s the one that also takes like bubble gum… Anyways, most recently I had to experience swollen tonsils and lymph nodes, and that’s a sign of …
writing exercise #6
I know that kombucha is good for gut health, but I never really looked too deep into it and why it’s “so healthy” for you. I try to drink it often, but it’s only whenever I feel like I haven’t been eating very healthy recently and this will help me feel better. This probably doesn’t …