Is the Microbiome About to Change Medicine for Good?
Abigail Klein Leichman via Israel21c – Israeli microbiome research will help in predicting, diagnosing and treating a wide range of conditions and diseases. Your body is composed of about 10…
Scientists Find Timekeepers of Gut’s Immune System
Washington University in St. Louis via News Wise – An immune cell that helps set the daily rhythms of the digestive system has been identified by researchers at Washington University…
UTSW Researchers Identify Molecule Linking Weight Gain to Gut Bacteria
UT Southwestern Medical Center via EurekAkert – “Our results also suggest that disrupting the interactions between the microbiota and the body’s clock could make us more likely to become obese…”…
‘The Most Important Way to Prevent Disease, Including Cancer’: A Dose of Good Bacteria a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
Lorie Johnson via CBN Health News – The walls of a healthy gut are semi-permeable. They are made up of tiny holes like a fine mesh strainer. These tiny holes…
Prolonged Antibiotic Treatment May Alter Preterm Infants’ Microbiome
National Institutes of Health News Release – The researchers do not know the long-term effects of these genome changes, which they term “microbiota scars.” They note that previous studies linked…
Developing Therapeutic Strategies for Pregnant Women with Lupus
Virginia Tech via EurekAlert – “For patients with autoimmune lupus, diet and probiotics are the two relatively easy and acceptable approaches that can potentially improve disease management through modulating the…
How to Prevent Gut Inflammation
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM via Nutrition Facts – It’s important to note that we’re not referring to fiber supplements here, but whole plant foods. Fiber supplementation with something like Metamucil…
The Answer to a Colon Cancer Mystery
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM via Nutrition Facts – “[T]he method of cooking and eating the maize [corn] meal as a porridge results in an increase in resistant starch, which acts…
Bacteria and Your Broken Heart
Al Sears, MD, CNS – German researchers analyzed the gut bacteria in healthy people and patients with heart failure. They found that the heart failure patients were missing important groups…
Can Healthy Gut Bacteria Reduce the Risk of Dementia?
Dr. Don Colbert – This microbiome plays a huge role in human health. Recent research has correlated certain changes in gut bacteria with inflammatory and autoimmune conditions, hormone balance, bone…
