Reddit reviews Microbial Burden: A Major Cause Of Aging And Age-Related Disease
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Michael Lustgarten is the author of 'Microbial Burden'.
Profile on Leafscience.org: https://www.leafscience.org/dr-michael-lustgarten-using-an-evidence-based-approach-for-optimal-health-and-longevity/
In the video he goes over some of his educational background, experience with researching associations between gut bacteria and health. Currently the field is immature and we don't know, maybe in the future there will be individual recommendations for ways to alter the microbiome for better health - currently there is a gap. He thinks a high fibre diet (>65g of fibre) is likely beneficial for improving gut barrier function and keeping things out of the blood that should only be in the gut.
He says he does regular blood testing while making changes to his diet to self experiment around biomarkers of aging, based on CBC blood panel which costs him $30 a pop. He inputs the results of this standard blood test into the aging.ai website, a deep-learned predictor of your age made with a deep neural network trained on hundreds of thousands anonymized human blood tests, built by insilico medicine. He suggests anyone can do this too.
Epigenetic age, he thinks may be more reliable (predictive of health), but is currently cost prohibitive ($300 per test) for regular testing based on his income.
Concluding stuff: he hopes that all the bright minds will converge on figuring out aging as he'd like to live healthy for a long time.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the main reason aging happens
and it is already relatively easy to fix: Identify the microbes in question and kill them.
The author has also written a book:
https://www.amazon.com/Microbial-Burden-Major-Age-Related-Disease-ebook/dp/B01G48A88A/ref=sr_1_8?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1526332350&sr=1-8&keywords=lustgarten