So. Proud.
You know when you’ve been working on something for such a long time, and then it just starts to FINALLY HAPPEN?
That’s what it’s feeling like here at CG right now. Our Lead Scientific Advisor, Dr. Amrita Vijay, Research Associate in Gut Microbiome and Metabolic Health at University of Nottingham, did a very cool thing.
Here’s Amrita:
(Talk about aspirational – as well as being brilliant and gorgeous, Amrita is so genuinely lovely that one can’t even work up a good resentment! Sigh…)
Anyhow, back in January Amrita was asked to present at the London Microbiome Meeting 2025 at St. Thomas Hospital in London. It was hosted by the Department of Twins Research and the Department of Nutritional Sciences at King’s College London, and attended by loads of scientists, researchers, healthcare professionals, professors, lecturers, policymakers and regulators. Veeeeery science-y. Here’s Amrita in action:
Her talk was called “Modulating Systemic Inflammation and the Gut-Brain Axis Through Dietary Interventions,” and it gave the results of a scientific trial that she and Dr. Ana Valdes have just completed at Nottingham University.
What was the study? Oooo here’s the part that makes me jump up and down: 80 healthy participants took dietary interventions for 6 weeks (20 of them got our Chuckling Goat Kefir and Complete Prebiotic) and then had their bloods taken, microbiomes tested and their metabolic markers measured.
What did they find?
The big news here (spoiler alert) is that the combination of our kefir + prebiotic reduces inflammation more effectively than either inulin or omega 3.
Put it into an infographic, and it looks like this:
Crazy, right? There are loads more exciting details to this story, and we’ll be pulling it apart for you as Amrita’s article goes through the review and publication.
But for the moment – I’m basking in the glow of working with a real-life, proper scientist who is DOING THE THING. Clinical trials, real results – who knew it could be so much FUN???!!!
(Rich thinks I’m weird. But hey – each to her own, right? Girl’s gotta have a hobby!)
Hugs,
Shann.x
Shann Jones MBE
Director/Founder Chuckling Goat
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