by Joël Doré, Andreu Prados
The gut microbiome has been involved in reducing adiposity in patients with obesity after gastric bypass. New research suggests that food intake, tryptophan metabolism, and gut microbiota composition can explain the glycemic improvement observed in patients after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.
by Andreu Prados, Joël Doré
The 11th Gut Microbiota for Health World Summit focused on emerging gut microbiome-targeted treatments in digestive, immune and cardiometabolic health. This post highlights the major take-aways from the conference and explores how they might impact clinical practice in the foreseeable future.
by Joël Doré, Andreu Prados
The 10th Gut Microbiota for Health World Summit took place on March 12th and 13th 2022, focusing on the role of gut microbiome-related interventions as part of individualized nutrition and medicine. This post highlights the major learnings from the conference and how they might impact clinical practice in the foreseeable future.
by Joël Doré
Little is known about the relationship between diet, the composition and function of the gut microbiota and clinical symptoms of IBS. New findings identify how IBS symptom severity is related to a higher intake of foods with poor nutritional quality and gut microbiome features at both subspecies level and metabolic pathways involved in carbohydrate metabolism.
by Joël Doré
A current ongoing debate is whether gut colonization starts during pregnancy or at birth. Here, Joël Doré covers how host-microbe symbiosis is established in early life and its impact on later health outcomes of neonates.
by Joël Doré
In a recent study in PLOS Genetics, investigators wanted to know the impact of prophage carriage in the gastrointestinal tract of monoxenic mice. They studied Escherichia coli bacteria paired with phage λ (both wild-type and mutant strains).
