by GMFH Editing Team
Important scientific progress has been made in 2019 in our understanding of the contribution of gut microbiome in health and disease. Have a look at this “2019 Year at a glance” report and discover the year’s breakthroughs in the field.
While initial studies focused on characterizing the gut microbiome, there has been a shift in the field towards mechanistic research focusing on microbiome influence on host phenotype. Here, science and medical writer Andreu Prados updates major breakthroughs in the field in 2019.
by GMFH Editing Team
The current management of functional abdominal pain in children is inconsistent. Summary evidence from three Cochrane systematic reviews of randomized clinical trials concludes that probiotics, cognitive behavioral therapy and hypnotherapy may be effective in this regard.
by GMFH Editing Team
Gibson and Roberfroid were the first to anticipate that probiotics and prebiotics could be combined as synbiotics back in 1995. Mary Ellen Sanders and Andreu Prados introduce our new selection of human research on the health benefits of synbiotics.
by Andreu Prados
Nutrients alone cannot explain the way people’s gut microbiomes are so different to each other. New findings in mice and humans reveal for the first time that cooking can affect the gut microbiome and it should thus be considered as a new covariable in gut microbiome research.
by GMFH Editing Team
Gut health has emerged as a potential target in people suffering from metabolic syndrome. A new randomized controlled trial has found that yogurt may help ameliorate insulin resistance in obese women with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and metabolic syndrome by involving the gut microbiota.
by GMFH Editing Team
Nowadays it’s difficult to keep abreast of everything that’s going on in probiotics and prebiotics research. Five of the world’s leading scientists in the field summarizes the clinical application and use in humans of prebiotics and probiotics.
by GMFH Editing Team
How genetics versus environmental factors drive gut microbiome variation in related primates remains unknown. New findings show that diet may outweigh phylogenetic evolution in shaping gut microbial communities across primate species and human hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists.
Identifying high quality probiotics available in the marketplace isn’t an easy task. A recent panel of experts suggest some recommendations to companies producing probiotics for assuring probiotics’ quality, from their manufacture to their selling.
The last 8th Gut Microbiota for Health World Summit hold in Miami in March updated the science behind gut microbiota and diet, probiotics, functional gastrointestinal disorders and metabolic and liver conditions. Check out here the Summit’s official report.
