{"id":15574,"date":"2026-01-30T15:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15574"},"modified":"2026-01-31T12:34:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:34:49","slug":"probiotic-clothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15574","title":{"rendered":"Probiotic clothing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rosie Broadhead has an idea &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/normalphenomena.life\/editorial\/the-future-of-fashion-is-skincare-exploring-next-to-skin-technology-with-rosie-broadhead\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/normalphenomena.life\/editorial\/the-future-of-fashion-is-skincare-exploring-next-to-skin-technology-with-rosie-broadhead\/\">what if fashion could become skincare<\/a>. She has experimented on obvious ideas like controlling odors, but she has gone further by working with a microbiologist with embedding bacteria into clothing to create probiotic textiles &#8211; despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org\/hometown-health\/speaking-of-health\/whats-the-deal-with-probiotics\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org\/hometown-health\/speaking-of-health\/whats-the-deal-with-probiotics\">scientifically dubious efficacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s an interesting idea &#8211; if they can work the actual science and practicalities out. The <a href=\"https:\/\/normalphenomena.life\/journal\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/normalphenomena.life\/journal\/\">news website has several other articles on bio-enabled technologies<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"895\" data-attachment-id=\"15575\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?attachment_id=15575\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/11\/Image-Credit_-Carla-Rossi-1463x2048-1.jpeg?fit=1463%2C2048&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1463,2048\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Image-Credit_-Carla-Rossi&amp;#8211;1463&amp;#215;2048\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/11\/Image-Credit_-Carla-Rossi-1463x2048-1.jpeg?fit=640%2C895&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/11\/Image-Credit_-Carla-Rossi-1463x2048-1.jpeg?resize=640%2C895&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15575\" style=\"width:466px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/11\/Image-Credit_-Carla-Rossi-1463x2048-1.jpeg?resize=732%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 732w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/11\/Image-Credit_-Carla-Rossi-1463x2048-1.jpeg?resize=214%2C300&amp;ssl=1 214w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/11\/Image-Credit_-Carla-Rossi-1463x2048-1.jpeg?resize=768%2C1075&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/11\/Image-Credit_-Carla-Rossi-1463x2048-1.jpeg?resize=1097%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1097w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/11\/Image-Credit_-Carla-Rossi-1463x2048-1.jpeg?resize=193%2C270&amp;ssl=1 193w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/11\/Image-Credit_-Carla-Rossi-1463x2048-1.jpeg?w=1463&amp;ssl=1 1463w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/11\/Image-Credit_-Carla-Rossi-1463x2048-1.jpeg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosie Broadhead has an idea &#8211; what if fashion could become skincare. She has experimented on obvious ideas like controlling odors, but she has gone further by working with a microbiologist with embedding bacteria into clothing to create probiotic textiles &#8211; despite the scientifically dubious efficacy. It&#8217;s an interesting idea &#8211; if they can work the actual science and practicalities out. The news website has several other articles on bio-enabled technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-43c","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15574"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15973,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15574\/revisions\/15973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}