This is the most comprehensive article regarding current research on the gut that I have seen. This guy writes as an outsider, who vounteered to be used for some of the research he discusses. Very well written, and he pulls in a lot of different things that scientists are learning about the gut - specifically the colonization of the colon - and how it affects our health. As suspected / expected, what we eat has a complex impact on our bodily system.

I think the thing I like the most is that this gives some logical, western, scientific-method-researched backbone to some of the speculative recommendations a lot of people make about what we should eat and not eat.

There is also an interesting finding: they tested 14 over the counter probiotics and found only 1 had exactly the strains listed on the package. Hmmmm...

Also - instead of advocating probiotics, there is more and more emphasis on advocating prebiotics to feed and nourish the bacteria we should have filling our guts.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05...?pagewanted=all&_r=0

After reading this article, I want to do two things:
1. Make up a cheer for H. Pylori (it apparently should be seen as a hero rather than a villian)
2. Ask the author and researchers, "So what if we don't have a colon?"

Steve