As you might expect, your aging gut microbiome is like everything else in your body that changes as you age. This is worrisome, because gut microbes influence your overall health in many important ways. What we want to do as we get older is to ensure that our gut microbiome is healthy,...
We all know by now that the pillars of a healthy lifestyle are regular exercise, eating enough fruit and vegetables, a good night's sleep and staying hydrated. All of these things also support the gut microbiome—all the microbes that live in your digestive system—but there are some extras...
It is now clear that gut microbes influence brain function. Poor diet leads to an altered microbiota. Accumulating evidence supports the view that gut dysbiosis is associated with depression and that treatments targeting the microbiota can be beneficial to people's mental health. We live in a ...
The immune system is really active in the small intestine to make sure that microbes aren’t getting so close. And if they do, there’s a response to get them back to the right location Metabolic and inflammatory diseases are all over the place during our age. The gut microbiome is criti...
The exact cause of the link between exercise and healthy gut microbes is being researched. High-intensity exercise brings more oxygen into the bloodstream, and this may help good bacteria flourish in the gut. Low intensity exercise may help the gut by encouraging the digestive tract to move food...
Furthermore, microorganisms also display antimicrobial activities maintaining a gut ecosystem stable. This review summarises some of the recent findings on the interaction of both commensal and probiotic with each other and with the . The aim is to highlight the cooperative status found in healthy ...
In addition to probiotics, it’s important to consume prebiotic fiber which gives gut microbes the energy they need to grow and multiply. Prebiotic fibers are indigestible, so they can make it into the intestine fully intact. Then they are fermented and broken down by healthy mic...
Mice research suggests it might. Last month, scientists at Washington University in St. Louis transplanted intestinal germs from obese and lean people into mice who had been bred to be germ-free. Themice that received gut bacteria from the obese people gained more weightand experienced unhealthie...
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Diet and Gut Microbial Diversity This finding suggests that environmental factors which influence the pace or trajectory of within-host evolution will also have important effects on the development of microbiota-driven disease. For example, people who consume a healthy diet tend to develop diverse bact...