Solid Foods and the Gut: Why the Second Six Months May Define a Baby’s Microbiome for Life
New research and commentary in Pediatric Research highlight the transition to solid foods as a critical, under-studied window in infant ...
Tag: gut microbiota
How Plant Polyphenols May Slow the Arterial Damage Behind Heart Attacks and Stroke
A new review in Molecular Biology Reports maps how dietary polyphenols such as resveratrol, quercetin, catechins, curcumin and anthocyanins target ...
Onion Extract and Diabetes Drug Show Promise Against Common Gut Parasite in Lab Study
Egyptian researchers found that metronidazole, metformin, and onion extract all suppress Blastocystis growth in lab cultures by disrupting the parasite's ...
Gut Microbiome Study Finds Household, Not Rare Eye Disease Gene, Shapes Microbial Communities
A whole-metagenome study of a large Spanish family carrying a CACD-causing PRPH2 mutation found that shared household environment, not disease ...
Gut Microbe and Its Fatty Acid Break the Inflammatory Loop That Drives Obesity
A cross-species study shows that the gut bacterium Clostridium butyricum and its metabolite butyrate alleviate obesity by disrupting an LPS-EGR1 ...
Rare Sugar D-Allulose Eases Fatty Liver Damage in Diabetic Mice by Reshaping Gut Microbes and Tryptophan Signaling
A new mouse study shows the rare sugar D-allulose reduces fatty liver and inflammatory injury in type 2 diabetes while ...
Fermented Tamarind Pulp Eases Constipation by Rewiring Gut Chemistry in Mice
A heat-inactivated, probiotic-fermented tamarind pulp relieved constipation in mice by reshaping gut microbiota, boosting short-chain fatty acids and indole metabolites, ...
Housekeeping Gene cpn60 Emerges as a Powerful Marker for Profiling Living Microbial Communities
Researchers at Harvard and the Broad Institute show that the housekeeping gene cpn60 can simultaneously profile microbial community composition and ...
Simulated Infant Digestion Reveals How Goat and Cow Milk Diverge in Nutrition and Function
A simulated infant digestion study finds goat milk is more digestible and less abundant in predicted allergenic peptides than cow ...
New Drug Candidates Starve Cryptosporidium Parasites by Blocking Their Energy Supply
Researchers engineered 1,440 derivatives of an anti-Cryptosporidium compound and identified two potent lactate dehydrogenase inhibitors that clear the parasite in ...
Gut-on-a-Chip Technology Moves Food Science Toward Personalized Nutrition
Microfluidic intestinal-chips that replicate human gut physiology are emerging as powerful tools for food safety testing, functional food development and ...
Fungi and Gut Microbes Reshape the Tea Compound EGCG in Surprisingly Different Ways
New metabolomics research shows that the fungi behind dark tea fermentation and rat gut microbiota transform the tea catechin EGCG ...
How the Microbiome Shapes HPV Infection and Gynecological Cancer Risk
A new review synthesizes evidence that gut and vaginal microbiota dysbiosis promotes persistent HPV infection and the development of cervical, ...
Grape Waste May Shield the Young Gut, but Not All Grape Products Work the Same Way
A Cornell study in a chicken embryo model shows that whole grape pomace, grape seed extract, and grape skin and ...
Four Plant Flavonoids Show Distinct Powers Against Gut-Driven Brain Fog in Mouse Colitis
A new mouse study shows that four structurally similar dietary flavonoids protect the brain from colitis-related cognitive deficits through distinct ...
Coffee Compound Trigonelline Eases Parkinson’s Symptoms in Mice by Calming Brain Inflammation and Reshaping Gut Microbes
A new preclinical study shows that trigonelline, a coffee-derived alkaloid, reduces alpha-synuclein pathology and neuroinflammation in Parkinson's model mice while ...
Eating Within a Window: How Time-Restricted Feeding Keeps Aging Arteries Young
A new study in Aging Cell shows that time-restricted feeding delays vascular aging in mice by remodeling the gut microbiota ...
Gut microbes and T cells drive chronic liver disease through a two-way immune dialogue
A new review maps how gut microbes and their metabolites bidirectionally shape T cell immunity to drive autoimmune, alcohol-associated, metabolic ...
Microbes, Not Just the Plant, Decide How Your Tea Tastes and Works
A new review argues that microbes in soil, leaves, factories, and the human gut, rather than the tea plant alone, ...
Mushroom Polysaccharide Repairs the Gut Barrier Through a Microbe-Made Fatty Acid
A purified polysaccharide from Ganoderma applanatum heals the intestinal barrier by feeding Phocaeicola vulgatus, which produces the fatty acid tridecylic ...
