Protozoa
The commonest parasite in human stool — and in a 1,098-person study it tracked with BETTER glucose after meals, not worse.
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The commonest parasite in human stool — and in a 1,098-person study it tracked with BETTER glucose after meals, not worse.
This star is on the map because the show intends to take the question apart properly — the trials, how it is actually tested, whether the thing sold is the thing studied. That work is not done yet, and nothing here should be read as a conclusion. When the investigation is published it will appear on this page.
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Gathered for the investigation and not yet written up. Each note says what the paper does and does not show.
PREDICT 1. Deep metagenomics on 1,203 gut microbiomes against hundreds of cardiometabolic markers. Blastocystis spp. came out as an indicator of FAVOURABLE postprandial glucose metabolism, alongside Prevotella copri. A marker of a good diet is not the same as a cause — but it is the strongest single argument against treating every carrier, and it is the number to open the episode with.
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