Bifidobacterium longum

So how does Bifidobacterium manage to adapt so quickly without waiting for millions of years for point mutations to accumulate so that that DNA can actually impact on the fitness of the microbe and us ultimately as the host? Now, today's paper starts with a fundamental conundrum in human gut ecology.

Bifidobacterium species, like the one they're gonna work on, Bifidobacterium pseudocatalanum and Bifidobacterium longum and breve, are all absolute workhorses in our dig- digestive tract, especially when we're newborns, infants, and that's effectively where all the data come from.

These are stool samples that they collected from 12 inf- infants longitudinally.

So when we eat a meal rich in complex plant polysaccharides, oligosaccharides, or even human milk as these infants do, um, these are the bacteria responsible for fermenting those non-digestible carbohydrates into short-chain fatty acids like acetate and lactate, which then serve to nur- nourish our colonocytes.

So it- in any case, when you're looking for a probiotic, find the one where there's research for that specific strain that's showing the efficacy that you're interested in.

But specifically for pets, um, and their stress response or anxious behavior, we were targeting a pathway which we could tap into with this, uh, Bifidobacterium longum BL999.

Uh, we set up a really holistic approach again, where we were doing, uh, behavioral measures and physiological measures-

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But the, the, the most incredible thing about Akkermansia is the fact that it literally helps us to produce more of our own cells, right? Like, I mean, it's literally rejuvenates, rejuvenating some of our intestinal cells.

Now, the other two that we haven't mentioned completely yet would be Bifidobacterium longum.

Lots of research on mental health, as you know.

And then Bifidobacterium adolescentis.