You probably recall from high school that creatures are classified using the taxonomy of Kingdom-Phylum-Class-Order-Family-Genus-Species. My teacher taught me to remember this with the phrase…
Can we eat to selectively grow specific bacteria?
Recently, I was reading that different types of bacteria thrive on different types of prebiotic. Thus, in theory, one could selectively feed (and therefore increase)…
What food do your microbes eat? Where do they like to dine?
In the post, we discuss what kind of nutrients feed the bacteria of our microbiome.