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Dietitian, Research Fellow @MonashDiabetes @CCSMonash. Diet, microbiome, diabetes, kidney disease. Dad x2. Pun lover. Views = my own. RT ≠ endorsement.
Feb 9, 2021 5 tweets 3 min read
Latest paper is up! We fed mice high protein diets for 24 weeks and measured the #microbiome 🦠, #kidney function and #gut leakiness. Here's what we found: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100… @sihmin_tan @MelindaCoughlan @MonashDiabetes 1) high protein diets alter the microbiome...but what's interesting is when we looked at the predicted metagenomes (using picrust2) we saw⬇️BCAA synthesis and⬆️urea cycle pathway.