Jotham Suez (SuezLab@JHU) suez.bsky.social Profile picture
Assistant Professor of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology @JohnsHopkinsSPH | Microbiome | Metabolism | Precision medicine | @Elinav_Lab alum | 🏳️‍🌈 He/Him
Aug 19, 2022 8 tweets 7 min read
🚨Non-nutritive #sweeteners (saccharin, sucralose, stevia, aspartame) alter the human gut & oral #microbiome, leading to personalized detrimental impacts on glucose tolerance: our new RCT with @Yot_Coh @Elinav_Lab is out now in @CellCellPress! 1/🧵
authors.elsevier.com/c/1fcJDL7PXipT… Sugar consumption is strongly linked to cardiometabolic disease risk. Are non-nutritive sweeteners the answer? As we @acritschristoph @yerpal_mxval @lilyklau recently reviewed, the literature is highly conflicted. The microbiome may be the solution...🧵2/n ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… Image
May 7, 2019 9 tweets 3 min read
There is a considerable knowledge gap between what we think is "known" regarding probiotics and where the science actually stands. Our new review in @NatureMedicine attempts to bring order into a chaotic field (1/9)
@Elinav_Lab @EranElinav @segal_eran nature.com/articles/s4159… Clinical efficacy: existing, but not as robust as we think for some of the most common conditions associated with probiotics, including gastroenteritis and C. difficile associated diarrhea. Meta-analyses should not replace high quality bias-free RCTs (2/9)