Christian Diener

Feb 6, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Christian Diener |Sean Gibbons

AbstractDietary intake is tightly coupled to gut microbiota composition, human metabolism, and to the incidence of virtually all major chronic diseases. Dietary and nutrient intake are usually quantified using dietary questionnaires, which tend to focus on broad food categories, suffer from self-reporting biases, and require strong compliance from study participants.

Sep 14, 2023 | nature.com | Joe Lim |Christian Diener |James WIlson |James Wilson

AbstractLongitudinal sampling of the stool has yielded important insights into the ecological dynamics of the human gut microbiome. However, human stool samples are available approximately once per day, while commensal population doubling times are likely on the order of minutes-to-hours.