Research
The evidence base.
Original papers, in-depth reviews of the literature, methods, and the field's landscape — the full evidence base of microbial metallomics.
The Research Library
In-depth reviews of the key published studies linking metals, the microbiome, and disease.
34 reviews & case studies The BlogThe Metal–Microbiome–Disease Axis
Long-form, evidence-anchored essays building the mechanistic case that metal exposure drives disease through the microbiome.
9 posts MethodsHow the Metallome Is Measured
ICP-MS, synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy, native mass spectrometry, and metalloproteomics.
LandscapeThe Research Landscape
Journals, societies, synchrotron facilities, funders, and a timeline of landmark discoveries.
Original Research
Papers from this group
Original preprints and articles developing the microbial-metallomics framework, published open-access on Zenodo.
Six Decades of Fertilizer Use Built a Legacy of Cadmium, Nickel, and Lead in Soils and Diets
A food metallomics review (1960–2025) showing how phosphate and urea fertilizers loaded soils, crops, and diets with cadmium, nickel, lead, and chromium.
Read →Heavy Metals and Microbial Metallomics: A New Framework for the US Obesity Epidemic
How dietary cadmium, arsenic, lead, and nickel may disrupt gut microbial metallomics—driving dysbiosis, inflammation, and insulin resistance behind obesity.
Read →Developmental Readiness Is Not Toxicokinetic Safety: Heavy Metals in Vegetable-Based Baby Foods
Developmental readiness for solids does not ensure toxicokinetic safety: leafy greens, brassicas and root crops concentrate lead, cadmium and arsenic in baby foods.
Read →Concentration-Based Heavy Metal Standards to Reduce Real Exposure in Infant and Child Foods
HMTc 2026 sets concentration-based, as-sold action levels for lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury, nickel and other heavy metals in infant and child foods.
Read →Nickel as a Catalytic Driver of Necrotizing Enterocolitis
Dietary nickel in infant formula may activate nickel-dependent microbial enzymes (urease, glyoxalase I) that drive necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants.
Read →A Unified Model for FIP-Associated Gingivitis in Cats: Disrupting Microbial Shielding and Restoring Nutritional Immunity
How itraconazole and lactoferrin may treat FIP-linked gingivitis in cats by disrupting polymicrobial biofilms and restoring metal-based nutritional immunity.
Read →Microbiome Medicine Journal: Restoring Causal Structure to Disease Through Microbial Metallomics
Microbiome Medicine Journal Vol. I sets out a mechanism-first framework linking microbial ecology, host metallome regulation, and metal dyshomeostasis to disease.
Read →From Dysbiosis to Dyshomeostasis: Reframing Parkinson's Through a Metallomic–Microbiome Lens
A metallomics framework reframes Parkinson's as metal dyshomeostasis: iron, manganese, copper, zinc and nickel dysregulation drives dysbiosis and neuron loss.
Read →The MC1R–Parkinson's Link May Be a Metallomic Story, Not a Cosmetic One
A hypothesis linking MC1R red-hair variants to Parkinson's risk via melanin-metal chemistry: how copper, zinc, and iron shape neuromelanin's redox buffering.
Read →Parkinson's Disease as a Disorder of Metal Dyshomeostasis Amplified by Microbial Ecology
A synthesis framework proposing Parkinson's disease begins with heavy-metal dyshomeostasis that drives ferroptosis, gut dysbiosis, and α-synuclein pathology.
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