This is what a team of scientists from the University of Geneva in Switzerland have just shown, at least in mice. According to the conclusions of a new study, recently published in Cell, being exposed to low temperatures could contribute to a subject getting leaner, partly due to gut microbes.
Learn more about diabetes and gut microbiota on diabetes-focused World Health Day
6 Apr 2016by Kristina Campbell
Dr. Etienne Krug, World Health Organization’s Director of Non Communicable Disease Prevention and Control, announced that this year's World Health Day on April 7th is dedicated to diabetes.
Could the study of gut microbiota lead to a non-surgical treatment for morbid obesity?
23 Mar 2016by Kristina Campbell
Bariatric surgery, though invasive, is a very, some says the most, effective known treatment to solve the problems caused by morbid obesity.
Researchers from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden have discovered that as a bear’s lifestyle changes dramatically from season to season, so too does the cocktail of bacteria in its gut.
Interview with Patrice D. Cani: “Probiotics and prebiotics can improve or prevent the development of some diseases”
4 Nov 2015by GMFH Editing Team
Patrice D. Cani is a researcher and Professor from the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS) and team leader in the Metabolism and Nutrition research group at the Université catholique de Louvain's Brussels-based Louvain Drug Research Institute.
Interview with Karine Clément: “Gut microbiota richness is likely a key factor in the development of metabolic diseases”
9 Sep 2015by GMFH Editing Team
Professor of Nutrition, Director of the Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition (ICAN) linked to the University of Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris and head of a research group at INSERM.
Spanish researchers identify and classify for the very first time the effects of certain conditions on the microbiota
11 Jun 2015by GMFH Editing Team
Two studies led by Spanish scientists from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and published in the Nature group journals Scientific Report and ISME Journal, respectively, have, for the first time, quantified and classified the effects of some disorders on our gut microbiota based on studies of the substances produced by bacteria when decomposing food molecules, the metabolites.
Scientists have recently become more aware of the important role the hundreds of trillions of gut microbes play in keeping us healthy.
Changes in the microbiota due to prolonged antibiotic treatment may lead to weight gain
20 Aug 2013by GMFH Editing Team
As we explained in a previous post, many studies have shown that antibiotic treatment alters our gut microbiota. A study led by Spanish scientists now shows that the changes in the composition of bacterial communities found in our intestine caused
“You are not human, you are a walking bacterial colony,” says the Belgian researcher Jeroen Raes, from the Flanders Institute of Biology, in this video from TEDxBrussels. Raes discusses issues that go from the gut microbiota’s size to its functions,
