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How Modern Life Depletes Your Gut Microbes
Optimize your gut health by eating fermented foods, taking probiotic supplements, boosting your soluble and insoluble fiber intake, and more.
Why Are Your Gut Microbes Different From Mine?
To find out, scientists collected poop from thousands of people—but they ended up with more questions than answers.
'The Mind-Gut Connection': Could Your Gut Microbes Be Affecting How You Feel?
An expert on the brain-gut axis says your trillions of gut microbes are in constant cross-talk with your brain, and there’s mounting evidence that they may affect how you feel — not just physically but emotionally.
Gut Microbes Can Evolve From Foe to Friend—And Do It Fast
There aren’t “good” and “bad” bacteria, but our microbes can help or hurt us depending on the challenges they face.
How to feed your gut microbes
There is emerging research showing that prebiotics can support a healthy gut and digestion. Prebiotics are fibres that aren't digested by our bodies, but feed the microbes in our gut.
This edible sensor could reveal what our gut microbes are up to
Electronic capsule tracks changes in fermentation after different diets
Our Gut Microbes Influence How We Respond To Fear
Fear, for the most part, is controlled by your brain’s amygdalae, the two almond-shaped segments of your neurological cartography that sound quite a lot li
How Gut Microbes Shape the Brain
Evidence of the association between the gut microbiome (the microorganisms living in the intestines, including bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa) and the brain, keeps getting stronger. Several studies have shown […]
How Gut Microbes Affect Our Brain
Think about the last time you gave a presentation. The feeling of having “butterflies in your stomach”. Or when you meet someone for the first time, that “gut feeling” of whether you two will get along. In our day-to-day lives, we often associate what happens in the gut with what goes on in our brai
How altered gut microbes cause obesity
Obesity is linked to changes in our gut microbes -- the trillions of tiny organisms that inhabit our intestines. But the mechanism has not been clear to date. In a new study, a team of researchers has identified how an altered gut microbiota causes obesity.
Why Your Gut Microbes Love Intermittent Fasting
Did you know that most of the cells that make up your body aren’t human at all? Some of them are microbial… and when you fast with the LIFE…
Gut microbes may predict whether exercising will prevent diabetes
Exercising helps some people avoid developing diabetes but not others, and we may now know why: it could be down to features of the human gut microbiome
What Does Space Travel Do to Your Gut Microbes? (Video)
Right now, there are trillions of microscopic, living organisms like bacteria, known as microbes, living in and on your body — but how are these microbes affected by spaceflight?
How gut microbes may trigger type 1 diabetes
Research on the tiny microbes that live in our gut has yielded clues to understanding a growing number of medical conditions. A new Yale-led study explores the link between gut microbes and type 1 diabetes.
How the gut microbes you're born with affect your lifelong health
Your lifelong health may have been decided the day you were born, says microbiome researcher Henna-Maria Uusitupa. In this fascinating talk, she shows how the gut microbes you acquire during birth and as an infant impact your health into adulthood -- and discusses new microbiome research that could help tackle problems like obesity and diabetes.
Scientists reveal how gut microbes 'recover' after antibiotic treatment
New insight on how antibiotics affect the gut microbiome—the community of microbes that live inside us—has been published in the journal eLife.
How helpful gut microbes send signals that they are friends, not foes
Some beneficial gut bacteria use unique form of communication to let immune cells know that they’re friendly.
How To Make Better Health Predictions From Our Gut Microbes
We all know people who act very differently depending on the company they find themselves in. They can be delightful in some circles, and obnoxious in others. The same principles apply to the micro…
UCLA-led study could clarify how gut microbes can exacerbate cognitive decline
The research, conducted in mice, could elucidate how and why the phenomenon occurs.
