How the Fungi in Your Gut Can Affect Your Mental Health
Dr. Caroline Leaf – We know that our gut affects our mental health, but did you know that the fungi in our gut is especially important when it comes to our…
Gut Microbiota Could Predict Severity of COVID-19
Dr. Liji Thomas, MD via News-Medical Net – The COVID-19 pandemic is spreading to every corner of the world. But not everyone is falling sick at the same rate. A new…
Bacteria Form Biofilms Like Settlers form Cities
University of Pennsylvania via EurekAlert – Microbiologists have long adopted the language of human settlement to describe how bacteria live and grow: They “invade” and “colonize.” Relations dwelling in close…
Better Sleep? Prebiotics Could Help
University of Colorado Boulder via Newswise – They provide food for good gut bacteria and influence circulating metabolites, buffering stress, study shows. Newswise — Think dietary fiber is just for…
How to Boost the Fat Burning Hormone FIAF
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM via Nutrition Facts – Although recent increases in the availability of junk food and decreases “in institutionally driven physical activity” have created an obesity-permissive environment, several…
Gut Bacteria Can Penetrate Tumors and Aid Cancer Therapy, Study Suggests
The Rockefeller University Press via Newswise – Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and University of Chicago have discovered that bacteria that usually live in the gut can…
The Anti-Anxiety Diet, How to Balance Your Hormones and Heal from Adrenal Fatigue, Nature’s Prozac and More with RD Ali Miller
Dr. Caroline Leaf – There is so much to be anxious about these days, including what to eat. But did you know that there is a way of eating that…
Could Cancer Immunotherapy Success Depend on Gut Bacteria?
UT Southwestern Medical Center via EurekAlert- Could the response to cancer immunotherapy depend on bacteria that originate in the gut and travel to the tumor? DALLAS – March 6, 2020…
Mediterranean Diet Promotes Gut Bacteria Linked to ‘Healthy Ageing’ in Older People
BMJ via EurekAlert – It may help curb advance of frailty and cognitive decline, suggest researchers. Eating a Mediterranean diet for a year boosts the types of gut bacteria linked…
Gut Reaction: How Immunity Ramps Up Against Incoming Threats
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute via Science Daily – A new study has revealed how the gut’s protective mechanisms ramp up significantly with food intake, and at times of the…
Why Eating Yogurt May Help Lessen the Risk of Breast Cancer
Lancaster University via NewsWise – One of the causes of breast cancer may be inflammation triggered by harmful bacteria say researchers. Newswise — Scientists say their idea- as yet unproven…
Gut Bacteria May be One Culprit for Increase of Colorectal Cancer in Younger People
Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center via Newswise – A bacteria typically linked to periodontal disease, Fusobacterium nucleatum (F. nuc), could play an important role in the rising incidence of colorectal…
Gut Microbiome Linked to Behavioral Problems in Children
Angela Betsaida B. Laguipo, BSN via News-Medical Net – Children with behavioral problems may have different compositions in their gut microbiome, with parents playing a major role in how pronounced…
Scientists Examine How a Gut Infection May Produce Chronic Symptoms
Rockefeller University via EurekAlert – Sometimes the end of an intestinal infection is just the beginning of more misery. Of those who contract traveler’s diarrhea, for example, an unlucky few…
How Diet Affects Mental Health — What’s the Evidence?
European College of Neuropsychopharmacology via EurekAlert – A new expert review confirms that diet significantly influences mental health and wellbeing, but cautions that the evidence for many diets is comparatively…
