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?
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The particular makeup of a newborn’s gut microbes is important as it has been shown to affect their risk of developing certain diseases later in childhood and adulthood.
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.
Just like humans, corals live with myriad microscopic organisms. We are just starting to understand this unseen world.
If you have a ten-month-old baby, what do you need to know? What do you need to ask your GP about the benefits and risks of antibiotics?
A combination of factors – pollution, disease and overfishing – is harming corals but scientists have found clues to effective treatment by studying corals’ microbiome.
Understanding the bugs in our lungs could help treat certain diseases, including asthma.
Microbes reveal that the great Carthagian general Hannibal may have taken a surprisingly difficult route to get to Italy.
Why are some new parents wiping vaginal fluid all over their baby’s mouth, eyes, and skin?
Could it be that in some cases, changes in the gut are actually driving mood disorders rather than the other way around? Mounting evidence suggests this is likely to be the case.
The human gastrointestinal tract harbours trillions of microorganisms, with up to 1,000 or so different bacterial species.
The secret to longevity – take a look at your poo to find out.
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.
PPI drugs are widely used to suppress gastric acid, but they could come with some risk to our 100 trillion gut microbes.
A growing body of research points to the detrimental effect of unhealthy diets and the protective value of healthy diets – along with select nutritional supplements as required – for maintaining and promoting mental health.
Human activities have altered whole ecosystems with declines in species diversity, extinctions and the introduction of weeds and pests. But it’s not just the outside world we’re harming.
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.
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Professor of Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London
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Associate Professor of Gastroenterology, School of Medicine, University of Washington
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Honorary Associate Professor
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Professor of Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, University of Nottingham
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Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor: Innovation and Knowledge Exchange, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor and Clinical Academic Gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University
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Reader in Ageing Research, King's College London
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Chief, Epithelial Therapeutics Unit, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
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Honorary Fellow in Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Molecular Evolution, Macquarie University
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Assistant Professor of Neonatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Postdoctoral Associate in Neuroscience, University of Florida
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Honorary Professor, University of Newcastle