Over 240 million people carry schistosomiasis, and millions more children in the same regions suffer from a poorly understood gut disorder called environmental enteric dysfunction. A new review asks whether the two conditions are quietly making each other worse.
Combining probiotics with vitamin D may do something neither can fully achieve alone: reshape the gut microbiome and amplify the body's ability to respond to the vitamin. Early research in obese rats is showing why that pairing deserves a closer look.
Eating more berries might help your liver, but only if your gut bacteria are along for the ride. Early research in mice suggests the anti-obesity benefits of flavonoid-rich foods depend almost entirely on gut microbial activity.
Five millennia after his death, Ötzi the Iceman is still hosting living microbes. Scientists have now cultured four cold-adapted yeasts from his mummy, some bearing signs of ancient DNA damage that trace them back to Copper Age colonizers.
Chronic stress floods the body with cortisol, but new research suggests the gut holds an unexpected buffer. Scientists found that commensal gut bacteria can dampen the brain-damaging effects of corticosterone and ease depressive-like behavior in an animal model.
Mice fed kefir-fermented soymilk for 30 days swam longer before exhaustion, carried more glycogen, and harbored a gut microbiome richer in butyrate producers. The findings point to fermentation as a lever for exercise recovery, not just digestion.
What if the treatment for inflammatory bowel disease lived inside you, activated only when and where it was needed? Researchers in China have built a gut bacterium that does exactly that.
A plant compound found in seeds, grains, and vegetables may fight depression by rebalancing the microbial communities that talk directly to the brain. New multi-omics research maps exactly how.
The gut may betray signs of Alzheimer's disease long before a clinical diagnosis arrives. New research finds that people with mild cognitive impairment already carry gut microbiome signatures strikingly similar to those in full Alzheimer's.
A natural compound found in everyday foods like lentils, nuts, and whole grains may do far more than sit quietly in your diet. New research shows it can activate a key epigenetic enzyme that keeps the gut barrier intact.
