We choose our food for a variety of reasons, including personal preference, availability, cost and healthiness. But we should also take our gut microbes’ preferences into account, a new study published in Cell suggests.
A study from the University of Minnesota has found that foods with similar nutritional characteristics can have very different effects on different people’s microbiome. So one person’s food really can be another person’s poison. The eminent Prof Tim Spector discusses this....
Here's a great podcast from one of the most exciting people working in this field, Tim Spector, a renowned Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and author of The Diet Myth.
In recent years, we’ve begun to learn that most everything we eat — from probiotic yogurt to a serving of asparagus to a fatty pork chop — has an effect on the microbes that live in our bodies, which, in turn, have an effect on us. And rapidly.
Probiotics are living micro-organisms that are taken by millions of people to boost their microbiome or to restore their gut ecosystem after a dose of antibiotics. Yet questions remain about whether they actually work.
We may think of ourselves as just human, but we’re really a mass of microorganisms housed in a human shell. Every person alive is host to about 100 trillion bacterial cells. They outnumber human cells 10 to one and account for 99.9...
Probiotics are having a moment. They're everywhere. Walk in your local mega-mart, and it's hard to miss the products offering you an extra dose of beneficial microbes. Though the good gut bugs are likely beneficial for some, companies are using the label to rip off...
Increasingly, scientists are beginning to regard the human body as “an elaborate vessel optimized for the growth and spread of our microbial inhabitants”.This humbling new way of thinking about the self has large implications for human and microbial health, which turn out...
Microbes in the gut may be a key to helping people lose weight, according to two tantalising new studies....
Breast-feeding boosts an infant’s immune system and promotes a healthy gut. Scientists are finally isolating the compounds responsible. The result could be a health breakthrough for all ages. ...
Researchers said Wednesday they have produced the first comprehensive genetic map of the microbes that live in or on a healthy human body, laying the groundwork for possible new advances in research and in the diagnosis and treatment of disease....