{"id":774,"date":"2006-12-21T10:57:32","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T15:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=774"},"modified":"2020-01-03T14:55:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T19:55:13","slug":"mainstream-medicine-catching-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/mainstream-medicine-catching-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Mainstream medicine . . . catching up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kirstenmortensen.com\/wp-content\/bowl of dirt.jpg \" alt=\"bowl of dirt\" \/><br \/>\nI hate to be the one who says &#8220;I told you so&#8221; but when <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/long-live-bacteria\/\">the pointed commentary fits<\/a> ;-)<\/p>\n<p>The news wires are carrying, today, a story about research showing a correlation between obesity and gut flora.<\/p>\n<p>They aren&#8217;t sure what the relationship means, yet. Specifically, nobody knows if, say, inoculating the gut with certain strains of microbe could promote weight loss.<\/p>\n<p>But at least they&#8217;re finally acknowledging that gut microbes play a role in human health. Kind of like what the alt health crowd has been saying for, oh, thirty-odd years now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to be the one who says &#8220;I told you so&#8221; but when the pointed commentary fits ;-) The news wires are carrying, today, a story about research showing a correlation between obesity and gut flora. They aren&#8217;t sure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/mainstream-medicine-catching-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,28],"tags":[163,1563,1564,1390,1526,1593,1594,1391],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-science","tag-alternative-medicine","tag-bacteria","tag-bioflora","tag-gut-flora","tag-health","tag-mainstream-medicine","tag-obesity","tag-probiotics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6211,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/6211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}