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Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 3:27
Potential to reverse neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s
Now, given the millions of different varieties of bacteria that colonize the human gut, it's been a challenge to figure out which ones are responsible for neurodegeneration and which ones could potentially thwart the neurodegeneration. So this research that has just been published from the University of Florida has found the types of bacteria that cause the neuro degeneration and have then found other types of bacteria that can potential potential potential potential to reverse neurodegenerative diseases, such particular brain. Now the research has been done on a particular type of worm
But until now, we've always sort of associated it with head trauma, because that's obviously where you go when you think of boxers, you think of CTE and concussions. And my dad was a champion and rarely got hit. So I wanted to think, as his son that it wasn't because he was hit that much
Tim Ereneta
@Tim · 1:05
Suda, the microbiome is just fascinating. And I'm so glad you shared this. This is really hopeful. I think what I'm wondering is how quickly the medicine will be able to further this research and come in up with treatments. I'm thinking about from the discovery of the double Helix structure of DNA to the first recombinant DNA manufactured for insulin. That was almost 30 years. But I wonder with AI now there'll be because human microbiome is so complex
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 1:36
Kim, you bring up a very valid point, and I wish I could answer. Unfortunately, medicine and articles such as this are a hobby of mine and not my field of study. Although I think a few decades younger, perhaps this is the area of study I would have picked up because I just find that microbiome and research happening in that field very fascinating