Baby’s gut bacteria and breast feeding duration predict future obesity
A higher per cent of Bifidobacteria and a lower per cent of Prevotella in baby’s microbiota are associated with a lower BMI and lower...
How Akkermansia muciniphila controls your health
This one bacterium appears to help control your body fat levels, type-2 diabetes, insulin resistance, inflammation, atherosclerosis and increase your longevity, while restoring your...
Depression linked to the gut microbiome
Depression has been repeatedly linked to changes in the gut microbiome, with specific bacteria and bacteriophages found; yet more than a third of people...
Fecal Transplants more effective with C. difficile
NICE have confirmed that Clostridium difficile infections, the result of antibiotic use in hospitals, are more effectively treated by Fecal Microbiome Transplants than more...
How ‘experts’ get SIBO wrong
Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) is far more common than people think and often confused with IBS and gut lining damage when its prime...
The Truth about Lectins
Lectins are proteins present in all plants and many animal products (e.g. dairy); they are erroneously dubbed ‘anti-nutrients’ and frequently blamed for health damage...
Sleep problems are linked to your gut health
Your gut microbiome is a major player in sleep regulation according to Dr David Gozal and his team from the University of Missouri School...
Butyrate significantly improves your health
Butyrate is a Short Chain Fatty Acid made by certain gut bacteria from fermentable fibre; it is essential both for good gut health and...
Your microbiome controls your immune response
Our antibodies are built and strengthened and their responsive abilities determined by our gut microbiomes long before we are attacked by an infection. If...
Salt causes hypertension via gut microbiome
Restricting salt consumption below 2.3 gm per day, increased short-chain fatty acid levels in the blood stream and lowered hypertension, blood pressure and improved...
A parasite infection can change and control your microbiome
Researchers have now shown that a parasitic infection is linked to a completely different microbiome profile, so much so that a microbiome profile can...
Brain haemorrhage and strokes linked to gut bacteria
Patients with Haemorrhagic brain disorders have very distinct and specific gut microbiomes with larger levels of gram-negative bacteria; this has implication for diet and...