Shedding abdominal fat through diet and exercise leaves a lasting imprint on your metabolic health, even if the weight comes back. A decade-long study tracked what happens inside the body long after the diet ends.
A disrupted gut microbiome can reprogram bile acid chemistry and flood breast tissue with inflammatory immune cells, accelerating tumor spread to the lungs and lymph nodes in hormone receptor-positive breast cancer.
Decades of diet wars pitted low-carb against low-fat, but a sweeping new study tracked nearly 200,000 Americans for over 30 years and found the real driver of heart health is neither camp: it's the quality of what you eat.
The molecules your gut bacteria produce from fiber are not interchangeable: a new RNA-sequencing study finds that butyrate, propionate, valproate, acetate, and 3-hydroxybutyrate each flip different genetic switches inside colorectal cancer cells.
Your mouth and colon are in constant microbial conversation, and a new review suggests that conversation can turn deadly when oral bacteria like Peptostreptococcus hitch a ride to the gut.
Between 2016 and 2021, candida infections among diabetic patients at a Saudi hospital increased by a staggering 54-fold. New research pinpoints exactly which lab values predict who is most at risk.
Researchers found that patients with atrial fibrillation carry far less Lactobacillus in their guts, and that a bacterial toxin called LPS may be the missing link between gut dysbiosis and an irregular heartbeat.
Two spices already sitting in your kitchen cabinet may do more than add flavor: cinnamon and ginger appear to act as prebiotics, reshaping gut bacteria in ways that ripple out to cholesterol, blood sugar, and blood pressure.
Shift work, irregular meals, and disrupted sleep do more than make you tired: they may be quietly dismantling the gut defenses that keep Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis at bay.
Immune checkpoint drugs have transformed cancer care, but most patients still don't respond. A sweeping new review in Cell Metabolism argues the gut microbiome is a central reason why, and a potential lever to change that.