SIBO Testing and Gut Symptoms: The Latest 2026 Research Lit Review Friday I have been meaning to deep dive into the SIBO literature since I started this Learn Something Series. In preparation for the annual fall GastroANP conference, I...
Celiac, Fiber, and Why Gluten-Free Diets Fall Short Lit Review Friday Take gluten out of a standard American diet and you take out most of the diet. That single confound let one half of medicine dismiss real patients,...
What 105,000 People Over 30 Years Reveal About Aging Well 📌 A note on this update Learn Something with Thaena Episode 5 is from 2025, earlier in this series. We went back to it this month and wrote it up...
Can a Microbiome Test Predict Parkinson's Disease? A 2026 paper in Nature Medicine proposed that a stool sample might flag Parkinson's disease before the first tremor. The claim is more interesting, and considerably more fragile, than the...
Indole-3-Propionic Acid: The Metabolite Only Bacteria Make Your cells can build almost every molecule in the tryptophan family. There is one step they cannot take. A paper published this February shows what sits on the other side...
Live vs Pasteurized Akkermansia: What the Research Show In 2004 a Dutch team named a bacterium that eats the mucus lining of your gut. In 2017 somebody heated it until nothing was alive, gave it to mice anyway,...
