Daniel Kraft, MD – Microbiome Medicine Summit 2017

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Last year, I wrote about the Microbiome Medicine Summit, which was not so much a summit/conference as it was a collection of interviews with “nutrition specialists” and “microbiome experts” – some real, some not so much – conducted by Raphael Kellman, who is trained as an MD but is eager to believe and report on non-scientific statements involving the human microbiome. Jonathan Eisen has given RK the “Overselling the Microbiome” Award.

Last year’s Microbiome Medicine Summit had very little research, a lot about “nurturing your microorganisms,” some weird stuff, and a lot of advertisements to buy costly probiotic drinks, minerals, and self-help books. What’s more, there were relatively few interviews with genuine microbiome specialists or scientists.

Some of these sessions were covered in previous blog posts: Microbiome Medicine Summit with Deepak Chopra and others, part 2 with Donna Gates, part 3 with Ann Louise Gittleman, part 4 with Joseph Mercola, and part 5 with Larry Dossey.

The Microbiome Medicine Summit returned in its second edition this year, with a slew of fresh interviews but essentially the same bizarre combination of quackery, snake oil, alternative facts, and, of course, connections to dodgy websites offering items claiming to treat ailments. The majority of these interviews, like those in last year’s collection, were with nutritionists and holistic physicians. And, once again, most interviews were done by Raphael Kellman, who occasionally talks more than the person being interviewed and never, ever appears to offer a challenging question. The schedule is available here.

I undertook the (at times agonizing) chore of sitting through numerous of these seminars so that I could tell you about them. Some of these speeches were good, with lots of “feed your microbiota by eating healthy” themes, while others were odd or even harmful. I reported on these talks on Twitter and aggregated the tweets and some comments on Storify.

Here are my Storify reports.

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