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Ecological Restoration of Antibiotic - Disturbed
Gastrointestinal Microbiota in Foregut and Hindgut of Cows — Shoukun Ji — Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
«Altering [reducing] the dietary intake of FODMAPs
alter gastrointestinal microbiota [58] and a significant decrease in the concentration of probiotic bifidobacteria after four weeks of a low FODMAP diet has been reported [52].»
Stress plays a huge role in gut health, altering the composition of
the gastrointestinal microbiota and likewise, an unhealthy diversity of bacteria can impact emotional behaviour and exacerbate our stress response.
«There is considerable evidence that dietary prebiotics modulate
the gastrointestinal microbiota with therapeutic applications to conditions, including irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, obesity and bone health,» according to the researchers.
«Doxycycline and hydroxychloroquine treatment exhibited a reproducible effect on the community structure of
the gastrointestinal microbiota, with treated patients presenting significantly lower concentrations of beneficial bacteria, Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, and Lactobacilli,» says coauthor Angelakis Emmanouil, of Unite de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), CNRS, Marseille.
Spatial Organization of
the Gastrointestinal Microbiota in Urban Canada Geese — Sergei V. Drovetski, Scientific Reports
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The Gastrointestinal Microbiota and Colorectal Cancer.»
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the gastrointestinal microbiota in colorectal cancer.»
Thus the «forgotten organ» of
the gastrointestinal microbiota is a prime candidate to be influenced by evolutionarily unprecedented postprandial luminal carbohydrate concentrations.