Rob Knight > Quotes

“But farmers noticed as far back as the 1950s that livestock on low doses of antibiotics gained weight a lot more rapidly, even at doses lower than the therapeutic dose. Livestock in the United States is commonly treated with low doses of antibiotics solely to increase the size, and thus the value, of the animals.”
― Rob Knight, Follow Your Gut: The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes

“Lactobacillus helveticus can decrease anxiety in mice,10 and Lactobacillus reuteri can reduce the likelihood that mice will develop infections when they’re stressed.11 Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG has been reported to reduce obsessive-compulsive behaviors, such as marble burying, in mice,12 and as we mentioned in the section on autism, probiotic strains of Bacteroides fragilis can rescue mice from some autistic-like traits, including cognitive deficits and repetitive behavior.”
― Rob Knight, Follow Your Gut: The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes

“Mycobacterium vaccae, a soil bacterium, has reduced anxiety. Intriguingly, in a social stress situation (essentially, smaller mice are put in a cage with a much larger, dominant mouse, which beats them up), M. vaccae treatment makes the mice much more resilient against the effects of stress, possibly providing a model for treating stress disorders in humans.22”
― Rob Knight, Follow Your Gut: The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes

“commercially available probiotics VSL#3 and LCR35 for irritable bowel syndrome14,15 and Bifidobacterium infantis natren for early-life celiac disease.”
― Rob Knight, Follow Your Gut: The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes