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RE: Yeast, Hepatosis, And The Importance Of The Human Microbiome: New Research Into How Our Microbiome Composition Could Benefit Us
Awesome article, as usual. Thank you very much @justtryme90. Are there already any trials with humans going on to confirm those findings?
Not that I know of, based on the author's discussions expanding research in this area seems promising and hopefully others are interested/actually do so. As we should all be aware these days, the mouse model (or any model for human body biochemistry: rat, dog, monkey etc.) Is not always the best representation, and this is because the cellular expression of metabolic enzymes is surprisingly varied from species to species. This actually may even require study in an additonal model or two to illustrate it's effecacy/consistency before people would be willing to look into any sort of human trial.
In short science is fascinating, but application of research onto humans is painfully slow (and for good reason, we really don't want to harm people in the trials).
Also, thanks for the kindness, and thank you for reading. :)
I'm very aware of all of these issues and you are also very right. It's an absolute necessity to make sure no humans are being harmed. I just hope that we will have better models (i.e. in silico for example) in the future that allow us to test things much faster. Right now, animal studies are they way to go but it doesn't have to stay that way forever...
Couldn't have said it better myself.