Sentences with phrase «of our gut bacteria»

For Bouley, it will give him a chance to bone up on holistic nutrition and become better acquainted with fermented foods and the benefits of gut bacteria.

They multiply many fold over night and over the next days so you will end up with some extra pounds of gut bacteria — but all to the good.

«Our study lays the foundation and opens the possibility that fibres targeting this group of gut bacteria could eventually become a major part of your diet and your treatment.»

These artificial sweeteners are toxic to the brain, disrupt the health of our gut bacteria, and may even lead to metabolic dysregulation (Which could mean weight gain, go figure!).

These studies look at makeup of gut bacteria after fermenting resistant starches.

As they travel through the bowel, the action of gut bacteria causes gas production, bloating, pain and altered bowel patterns in some people.

Another example of how friendly bacteria impact obesity levels is that of gut bacteria: obese people are seen to have lower levels of the friendly gut bacteria than normal weight people have in their digestive tract.

Babies receive bacteria and specific sugar components from a mother's milk, which promote the growth of gut bacteria in babies.

In yet another scientific reason for mothers to strongly consider breast - feeding their newborns, a new study in the journal Genome Biology finds that babies who are fed breast - milk had a wider range of gut bacteria than formula - fed babies.

Together, the results suggest that metformin at least partly works by encouraging the growth of gut bacteria such as Akkermansia, which can influence blood sugar levels.

Bäckhed hopes that some people with diabetes might get similar benefits by modifying their diets to change the makeup of their gut bacteria — for example by encouraging the growth of Akkermansia and Bifidobacterium.

As well as understanding the implications of finding this new variant of the botulism gene cluster in a non-clostridial species of gut bacterium, the team are interested in exploring how it might help in developing new treatments for diseases.

Fat mice and humans have a less diverse milieu of gut bacteria, with a greater proportion of Firmicutes to Bacteroidetes in their bowels.

A new study shows similar patterns in the evolution of gut bacteria and the primates they live in, suggesting that germs and apes could have helped shaped one another.

An imbalance of gut bacteria has been linked to all kinds of problems, from obesity and diabetes to heart disease and dementia.

Because both of the new studies transplanted the entire community of gut bacteria from people into mice, they couldn't show which particular bugs played necessary or sufficient roles in MS.

While further research is needed to confirm the identity of the cancer - promoting bacteria, the findings suggest it may be possible to reduce the risk of colorectal cancer in genetically susceptible individuals by removing certain types of gut bacteria.

WE HAVE all experienced the influence of gut bacteria on our emotions.

For instance, the presence or absence of gut bacteria can influence whether a mouse exhibits anxiety - like behaviors, such as avoiding bright lights or open spaces.

Before the regime, Enterobacter — a toxin - producing pathogen — was most abundant, accounting for 35 per cent of the gut bacteria.

«We don't completely understand why those species occur during cholera infection, but that phenomenon may offer clues as to why we observe different species of gut bacteria among humans in different parts of the world.

But more work needs to be done, and at least one major question needs answering: Do people with relapsing - remitting MS have a different set of gut bacteria than people with the primary progressive form of the disease?

Specifically, they knew two closely related wasp species, Nasonia giraulti and Nasonia longicornis, could produce healthy hybrid offspring and that the two had a similar array of gut bacteria.

To test their idea, they raised the hybrid offspring of N. vitripennis and each of the other wasp species in a germ - free environment, eliminating any signs of gut bacteria that might be toxic to the wasps.

A new study finds that members of a common class of gut bacteria, Clostridia, can counter sensitivity to peanuts.

«Precision editing of gut bacteria: Potential way to treat colitis.»

That summer, epidemiologists discovered hospital - bred strains of the gut bacterium enterococcus harboring a gene that made them impervious to vancomycin.

A better understanding of gut bacteria's role in multiple sclerosis may identify novel drug targets and pathways to improved health.

«Multiple, co-existing groups of gut bacteria keep Clostridium difficile infections at bay.»

The researchers will also study possible side effects from the modulation of gut bacteria and FXR by drug treatment.

They also assessed the levels of gut bacteria and the «chemical fingerprints» of cellular processes (metabolites) in their stool and urine samples.

Researchers at UC Davis have found that a gene, which is not active in some mothers, produces a breast milk sugar that influences the development of the community of gut bacteria in her infant.

About halfway through, Alm learned the importance of his own diet after one meal radically altered the composition of his gut bacteria.

Just four types of gut bacteria in the stool seem to make all the difference, predicting who will get the disease and who won't, researchers say.

The same team of researchers showed earlier this year that people fall into one of three groups, or «enterotypes», when it comes to the genetics of their gut bacteria (see «Gut study divides people into three types»).

By transferring part of the gut bacteria from healthy mice to diabetic mice, they are re-establishing a normal level of cathelicidin.

The research team has uncovered how one group of gut bacteria, known as Bacteroidetes, digest complex sugars known as xyloglucans.

The researchers also noted signs of increased gut permeability — or leaky gut — and a decrease in the diversity of gut bacteria and anti-inflammatory bacterial metabolites, such as short - chain fatty acids, said Jairam K.P. Vanamala, associate professor of food sciences, Penn State.

Petri and Gordon found that as children matured, their community of gut bacteria normally shifted as well.

Moeller found that two of three major families of gut bacteria in apes and humans trace their origins to a common ancestor more than 15 million years ago, not primarily to bugs picked up from their environment.

«The findings indicate women with PCOS tend to have less diverse populations of gut bacteria, a trend which appears to be linked to elevated testosterone levels,» said Varykina Thackray, PhD, senior author of the study and associate professor in the Department of Reproductive Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

The wrong mix of gut bacteria, not just starvation, could contribute to severe malnutrition.

The mice findings suggest that the makeup of the gut bacteria is important in the response to starvation, says Andrew Serazin, a program officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which funded the work.

Ipilimumab appears to cause a decrease in two types of gut bacteria, called Bacteroidales and Burkholderiales, suggesting these bacteria interact with the drug.

«Pivotal role of gut bacteria in insect - to - insect communication.»

UBC researcher Eric Brown UBC created an animal model of malnutrition that replicates the imbalance of gut bacteria associated with the difficult - to - treat disease.

«Of course, other factors also affect the composition of our gut bacteria.

«Humans show considerable individual differences in the composition of their gut bacteria due to genetics, age, diet, time of day, and pets, among other factors, and therefore likely their responses to indomethacin,» Liang said.

And not only did large amounts of gut bacteria die off after mice ate a low - fiber diet, mice developed unhealthy imbalances of different gut bacteria strains.

This is supported by the recent characterisation of trimethylamine N - oxide (TMAO), a metabolic product of gut bacteria, as an independent risk factor for the mortality rate in patients with heart failure.