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Can Prebiotics Help Brain Health in Aging Adults?
The gut-brain axis communicates through metabolic, neural, immune, and endocrine pathways, which are influenced by the gut microbiota. Prebiotics are foods used by the gut ...
The Gut–Lung Axis in Respiratory Disease: Mechanisms and New Interventions
Managing chronic pulmonary diseases can be challenging, with factors such as air pollution and COVID-19 compounding the issue. Microbial imbalances in the gut microbiome also ...
Postbiotics – Capturing Microbial Benefits Without Live Microbes
The Leap to Postbiotics – Born of Necessity and Insight Early 2020. COVID-19 brought the world to a standstill, and with it, our fledgling FMT ...
From Probiotics to Fecal Transplant – A Paradigm Shift (Part 1)
Early Days of Probiotics: Promise and Marketing Hype Modern microbiome science emerged in the 2000s with the realization that trillions of gut microbes form a ...
Probiotics Reduce Fever Duration in Children with Upper Respiratory Tract Infection
This is the first trial showing the efficacy of this probiotic mixture in reducing fever duration in children with URTIs. Fever management can be intimidating ...
Alcohol and Gut Health: Clinical Insights Using the 5R Approach for Supporting Patients’ Digestive Well-Being
As a medical education specialist at a functional medicine laboratory, I speak with clinicians daily about their patient’s stool test results. Alcohol use as a ...
Probiotic Improves Health of Kidney Cancer Patients
The gut microbiome—the trillions of bacteria and other microorganisms that live in our intestines—plays an extensive role in human health and disease. An imbalance between ...
Can a Father’s Gut Health Affect His Offspring?
Our gut microbiota is made up of the millions of microscopic creatures that inhabit our gastrointestinal tract. It is responsible for producing enzymes, metabolites, and ...
Probiotic Metabolite May Help Treat IBS
Science is only beginning to understand the role that the gut microbiome—the collection of bacteria and other microbes that live in our intestines—plays in our ...
Supplement Combo Helps Treat Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is one of the most common severe mental illnesses, affecting some 24 million people—about one in every 300—worldwide. Symptoms range from listlessness and apathy ...
