From losing inhibitions and anger to schizophrenia and dementia – science is uncovering the role small critters play in a range of illnesses and behaviours.
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Banked breast milk is a safe source of shared human milk, and can be a life-saver for very premature babies.
A mouse study suggests that Parkinson’s might start in the gut and later spread to the brain.
New research suggests our gut microbes have their own circadian rhythms that in turn influence our organ functions. Is this an explanation for how disrupting our daily patterns can cause health problems?
The mystery of the yo-yo dieting effect has finally been solved.
The modern lifestyle, particularly diet and hygiene changes, have altered our relationship with our microbes. But can we restore it?
When we can’t lose weight, we tend to want to blame something outside our control. Could it be related to the mictobiota – the bacteria and other organisms – that colonise your gut?
For most of us, the form of stool we excrete can vary widely depending, in part, on what we’ve been doing.
The make-up of our gut is constantly changing and affects everything from our immune system and digestion, to our brain function.
Links have been made between the community of bacteria in your gut and depression, pain, stress and sleep. So what does the science say?
You gotta have guts to succeed at Rio 2016 – and very healthy ones, at that.
Yo-yoing between eating well during the week and bingeing on junk food over the weekend is likely to be just as bad for your gut health as a consistent diet of junk.
Being too clean isn’t what’s making us sick. It’s the loss of biodiversity in the bacteria and organisms that live in our bodies and work with the immune system.
Allergies are reactions caused by the immune system as it responds to environmental substances that are usually harmless. But we don’t yet have a cure or the ability to prevent them from developing.
When we think of antibiotic overuse, we don’t generally think of allergies. Research is beginning to suggest that maybe we should.
Severe allergies are on the rise – could our diet be to blame?
Supersize me too: how junk food decimates thousands of friendly microbe species.
Our personal collection of microbes is vital for gut health - but new research shows that large-scale analysis of our ‘microbiomes’ can show if a population is fat or lean. The answer is in sewage.
The terms probiotics and prebiotics are appearing on more items in supermarket aisles all the time. Both words, their placement and the products they adorn, imply they’re good for you, that more of these…
We’ve long known that that the gut is responsible for digesting food and expelling the waste. More recently, we realised the gut has many more important functions and acts a type of mini-brain, affecting…
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