Just as many emotions—fear, anxiety, love—are felt in the gut, your microbes can also influence your brain and emotions. Taking care of your gut may help prevent some mental illnesses.
As individuals' genetics, the microbiome has its own signature in each person, which makes it unique. This uniqueness could be the key to healthy aging.
Gut microbiota disturbance following antibiotic use at an early age is associated with behavioral disorders in infants
3 Mar 2021by Manon Oliero
While there is a lack of studies aiming to understand how the gut microbiota evolves during infancy to cause neuronal disorders, Amy Loughman’s recently published an article considering this subject.
This post takes you on a journey from the mouth to the gut microbiota and into the colon, so you can see that how you feel after a meal depends on a range of factors, including appetite, food smells and even your eating habits.
Consistent associations between human genetic variation and the gut microbiome identified in 3 independent European cohorts
17 Aug 2020by Manon Oliero
Researchers have created a new analytical pipeline that disentangles associations between human host genotype and gut microbiome variation in 3 distinct cohorts, paving the way for causal inference analyses in the field.
How does the brain regulate appetite and energy intake? Using examples of eating disorders, the authors of this article explain how the gut experiences stimuli related to food intake.
Paul Cotter and his team at the University of Cork (Ireland) are studying athletes for the impact of sports activities of varying intensity on the gut microbiota and the derived and human metabolites composition.
A new mechanism identifies a gut-brain axis in cerebral cavernous malformation
9 Jan 2020by Manon Oliero
A new publication from Alan T. Tang of the University of Pennsylvania focuses on explaining the relationship between gut microbiota and cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM), which is a neurological disease that leads to hemorrhagic stroke and seizure.
A study led by Dan Knights at the University of Minnesota concludes that a varied diet helps maintain a stable microbiome, while also giving your body all the nutrients it needs to stay healthy.
Did you know that there are different types of probiotics? Do you know how beneficial they are for health? This new infographic by ISAPP explains the different types of probiotics and their contribution to the way the immune system functions.
