Low fibre eaters gain weight more quickly and may be more susceptible to certain illnesses.
- Professor of Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London
Food poisoning or allergies – which to go for.
Gordon has made humble gut microbes one of the most talked about health topics of the last decade.
Pourquoi moi ? Et pas lui ? Tous celles et ceux qui se font dévorer par les moustiques se posent la question. Professeur de génétique, Tim Spector se pique d’avoir la réponse.
Poo-analysis tests conducted by the Soviet leader may not have been as crazy as they sound.
The secret to longevity – take a look at your poo to find out.
Vitamin D is often seen as a harmless supplement to take – the more the better. But the evidence suggests a different picture.
PPI drugs are widely used to suppress gastric acid, but they could come with some risk to our 100 trillion gut microbes.
Science suggests that diets tailored to your own gut work better than those based on the glycaemic index.
Et si, au lieu d’avaler des antibiotiques, on recevait une transfusion de microbes intestinaux par le biais d’une gélule remplie de matières fécales ? Une voie d'avenir pour restaurer son microbiote.
Would you freeze your poo for a rainy day of ill health?
Même si on n’en fait pas son petit-déjeuner, l’huile d’olive extra-vierge est source de bienfaits. Les dernières découvertes scientifiques sur le microbiote intestinal le prouvent une fois encore.
Drinking olive oil might not sound appetising but there is strong evidence it has greater health benefits than low-fat diets.
Severe allergies are on the rise – could our diet be to blame?
Scientists seem to have cracked the code behind the heritability of obesity.
Our bodies are more adapted to modern living than some diets make out.
Supersize me too: how junk food decimates thousands of friendly microbe species.
Being bitten by mosquitoes may not be pleasant but they’re after your unique microbial fingerprint.
Study finds identical twins more likely to vote the same way – unless they back the Lib Dems.
Why does a “gay gene” paper still cause a stir? A similar paper on any other topic would probably have passed unnoticed. But this is sex research – where public interest is huge but real funds and real…
If your great-grandparents lived through a famine, their experience could well have altered their genetic code. And three generations later you could well be showing signs of that change. The idea that…
Adrian Bird, Howard Cedar and Aharon Razin were hotly tipped to win this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine for their pioneering work in the field of epigenetics. They didn’t win. But their nomination is…
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