Optibiotix Health Share Discussion Threads

[manc10] 18/7/2020 13:48

more revenue for the h2 weighted opi wonderful

[manc10] 18/7/2020 13:42

what a bitter troll you are a laughing stock old man

[rayrac] 18/7/2020 13:32

Evolution_18...more expensive bs. Not for diabetics either!

Try a decent diet, ie fruit and veg and low carb...save a fortune, lose you weight and lower your diabetes numbers. 👉🏾👍

[kreature] 18/7/2020 09:36

Good article, thank you, have to zoom

[kreature] 18/7/2020 09:34

Not a bad idea actually. Will pop over to emirates on bike

[kreature] 18/7/2020 09:29

How was the wellbum discovered ?

[manc10] 18/7/2020 09:26

kreature did did you get a diploma in being a boring t££t now sorry but too boring for me .filtered kreature the puppet laters

[manc10] 18/7/2020 09:22

kreature with a short at 26p 100% down you must be desperate you bore now get out on your bike and be careful out there

[kreature] 18/7/2020 09:18

interviewer looks desperate to try to be interested. Another good vid though

[kreature] 18/7/2020 08:56

Inside info ?

[manc10] 18/7/2020 00:07

better than rats

[rayrac] 17/7/2020 23:50

So Opti are looking to get into bed with bugs now?

[manc10] 17/7/2020 22:47

Homes infested by bed bugs appear to have different bacterial communities -- often referred to as microbiomes -- than homes without bed bugs, according to a first-of-its-kind study from North Carolina State University. In addition, once bed bug infestations were eradicated, home microbiomes became more similar to those in homes that never had bed bugs. The findings could be an important step in lifting the veil on the factors involved in indoor environmental quality and how to improve it.

Microbes can affect indoor air quality. So NC State entomologists Coby Schal and Madhavi Kakumanu wanted to learn more about the microbiomes of bed bugs, whether bed bugs can shape the microbial community in homes they infest, and whether eliminating bed bugs changes the microbiome of homes that were once infested.

The study, held in an apartment complex in Raleigh, compared the microbiomes of bed bugs with the microbiomes in the household dust of infested homes as well as the microbiomes in apartments that had no bed bugs. Nineteen infested homes were studied over the course of four months; seven were treated with heat to eliminate bed bugs after the initial sample was taken, while 12 infested homes were treated after one month. These homes were compared with 11 homes that had no bed bugs.

The results showed similarities between the microbiomes of bed bugs and the dust-associated microbiomes of infested homes, mostly through the presence of Wolbachia, a symbiotic bacterium that comprises the majority of the bacterial abundance in bed bugs. Bed bug and infested home microbiomes differed significantly from the microbial communities of uninfested homes.

"There is a link between the microbiome of bed bugs and the microbiome of household dust in bed bug infested homes," said Schal, the Blanton J. Whitmire Distinguished Professor of Entomology at NC State and co-corresponding author of the paper. "No previous study has reported the impact of chronic pest infestations on indoor microbial diversity."

The study also showed that, after bed bugs were eliminated, infested home microbiomes gradually became more like those in homes without bed bugs.

"The elimination of the bed bugs resulted in gradual shifts in the home microbial communities toward those of uninfested homes," Kakumanu, an NC State research scholar in Schal's lab and co-corresponding author of the study, said. "This paper is the first experimental demonstration that eliminating an indoor pest alters the indoor microbiome toward that of uninfested homes."

"Bed bug infestations are problematic in many homes in both developed and developing countries," Schal said. "There is a critical need to investigate infestations from the perspective of indoor environmental quality, and this paper represents a first step toward this end."