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Compound Derived From Hops Reduces Abundance of Gut Microbe Associated With Metabolic Syndrome
Researchers have shown in a mouse model and lab cultures that a compound derived from hops reduces the abundance of a gut bacterium associated with metabolic syndrome. The findings, published in the journal Microbiome, are important because an estimated 35 percent of the U.S. adult population suffers from metabolic syndrome. Patients are considered to have metabolic ...
Gut Microbes Could Unlock the Secret to Healthy Aging
Bacteria and other microorganisms in the digestive tract are linked with dozens of health conditions including high blood pressure, high blood lipids and body mass index (BMI) according to research presented at the 2020 ESC Congress. “Our study indicates that microbiota might have an important role in maintaining health and could help us develop novel ...
First Gut Bacteria May Have Lasting Effect on Ability to Fight Chronic Diseases
New research showing that the first bacteria introduced into the gut have a lasting impact may one day allow science to adjust microbiomes—the one-of-a-kind microbial communities that live in our gastrointestinal (GI) tracts—to help ward off serious chronic diseases. Findings by the University of Alberta (U of A) microbial ecologist Jens Walter and his colleagues ...
Changes Uncovered in the Gut Bacteria Of Patients With MS
A connection between the bacteria living in the gut and immunological disorders such as multiple sclerosis (MS) have long been suspected, but for the first time, researchers have detected clear evidence of changes that tie the two together. Investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have found that people with MS have different patterns of ...
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