A prized edible mushroom from Yunnan, China sends hundreds of people to the hospital each year with visions of tiny dancing figures. Researchers have now confirmed it contains none of the psychedelic compounds science has mapped so far.
Roughly 100 trillion microorganisms colonize the human gut, encoding more than 150 times as many genes as the human genome itself. A new review maps what science has learned, and how far it still has to go.
Swapping glucose for ketones as the brain's primary fuel source may do more than keep weight off. Early research suggests the ketogenic diet could actively slow the biological damage driving Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other neurodegenerative diseases.
Stimulating the vagus nerve could be an entirely new way to treat inflammatory skin diseases like psoriasis, eczema, and rosacea, and the biology behind the idea is more compelling than it first sounds.
A compound abundant in fermented foods may be doing more than flavoring your yogurt. Early mouse research suggests dietary lactic acid can reshape the immune response behind food allergies at a surprisingly fundamental level.
What if the fitness benefits of months of endurance training could be partially transferred through gut bacteria alone? A new mouse study suggests that is not entirely far-fetched.
Adding phosphatidylserine to a caffeine-taurine supplement cut sprint decline nearly in half during a professional football training session, and lifted passing accuracy to 84 percent. The findings are preliminary, but the effect sizes are hard to ignore.
Bacon and spinach both contain nitrates, yet one gets cancer warnings and the other a nutrition halo. A new mathematical model may finally explain why, and the answer could change how you time your vitamin C intake.
Unaffected parents with disrupted gut bacteria may still pass autism-linked epigenetic changes to their children, according to a striking new mouse study. The findings hint at a biological pathway that previous genetic models have struggled to explain.
Estimates suggest people ingest up to 52,000 microplastic particles every year, and preliminary research is starting to trace a path from those particles to gut dysbiosis, inflammatory bowel disease, and colorectal cancer.
