{"id":4216,"date":"2011-08-30T20:26:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T02:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/qotd\/our-guts-are-like-coral-reefs-inhabited-by-many-diverse-creatures-interacting-with-each-other-and-with-us\/"},"modified":"2011-08-30T20:26:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T02:26:24","slug":"our-guts-are-like-coral-reefs-inhabited-by-many-diverse-creatures-interacting-with-each-other-and-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/qotd\/our-guts-are-like-coral-reefs-inhabited-by-many-diverse-creatures-interacting-with-each-other-and-with-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Our guts &ldquo;are like coral reefs inhabited by many diverse creatures interacting with each other and with us.&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve long used the Amazon jungle simile, but I like the coral reef reference. Keep this in mind when a doctor casually prescribes antibiotics \u2013 you may be killing an important part of you. Feed your gut; love your fauna; tend the world within.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/08\/110830193847.htm?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29\">Viruses in the human gut show dynamic response to diet<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2026 said Dr. Frederic Bushman of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, senior author of the study\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The digestive system is home to a myriad of viruses, but how they are involved in health and disease is poorly understood. In a study published online August 30 in <em>Genome Research<\/em>, researchers have investigated the dynamics of virus populations in the human gut, shedding new light on the gut &quot;<font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">virome<\/font>&quot; and how it differs between people and responds to changes in diet. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>The interactions between viruses, bacteria, and the human host likely have significant consequences for human health and disease, especially in the delicate ecosystem of the gut micro<font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">biome<\/font>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/08\/110830193847.htm?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29\">Viruses in the human gut show dynamic response to diet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve long used the Amazon jungle simile, but I like the coral reef reference. Keep this in mind when a doctor casually prescribes antibiotics \u2013 you may be killing an important part of you. Feed your gut; love your fauna; tend the world within. Viruses in the human gut show dynamic response to diet \u2026 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/qotd\/our-guts-are-like-coral-reefs-inhabited-by-many-diverse-creatures-interacting-with-each-other-and-with-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our guts &ldquo;are like coral reefs inhabited by many diverse creatures interacting with each other and with us.&quot;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qotd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}