Does your gut tell you what to eat, and should you listen?
1 year, 8 months ago

Does your gut tell you what to eat, and should you listen?

Live Mint  

You know that saying, your body craves what your body needs? We may need to revise it to “your body craves what your gut bacteria need.” Scientific discovery is starting to crack open the door to the mysterious world of what lives in our intestines. More complex than bacteria happily munching on our food or causing an embarrassing bathroom run, our gut bacteria have harbored a little secret. The thing with cravings… We already know that our gut bacteria eat the food we eat, and when we eat processed foods that have simple sugars, our bacteria are delighted. One of the researchers, Professor Mazmanian, said "it has been known for a decade that diet shapes the composition of the gut microbiome, but whether bacteria in the intestines influence feeding behaviors remains largely unexplored" He continues further to say, "we identified that the underlying reason for this outcome was not nutritional, but rather a behavioral motivation to eat more of a desirable food when gut bacteria is missing, and performed initial analysis to validate changes in brain activity."

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Doing This 1 Thing Every Week Is The Secret To Whipping Your Gut Health Into Shape
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Doing This 1 Thing Every Week Is The Secret To Whipping Your Gut Health Into Shape

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Hispanolistic via Getty Images Attaining a healthy gut microbiome has long been all the rage in the wellness world, but now it seems everyone else — including countless TikTokers — has become obsessed. “It’s not just bacteria — it’s also the chemicals they’re producing,” the founder of London’s The Gut Health Clinic said. “Studies have shown that if we’re adding …

Dieting impacts a person's energy balance by altering gut microbiome: Study
3 years, 6 months ago

Dieting impacts a person's energy balance by altering gut microbiome: Study

Hindustan Times  

Researchers from Charite -- Universitatsmedizin Berlin and the University of California in San Francisco were able to show for the first time that a very low-calorie diet significantly alters the composition of the microbiota present in the human gut. "For the first time, we were able to show that a very low-calorie diet produces major changes in the composition of …

5 Diet Changes That Can Give Your Gut Health a Boost
4 years ago

5 Diet Changes That Can Give Your Gut Health a Boost

News 18  

“You are what you eat,” says that age-old proverb and it’s true too. A study published in Nutrients in 2019 explains that most of these naturally-occurring healthy bacteria and microorganisms play essential roles in not just breaking down food into fuel but also in maintaining gut health and helping translate food into energy for different parts of the body. Creating …

Healthy Gut Microbe Could Be the Key For Humans to Reach Mars
4 years, 3 months ago

Healthy Gut Microbe Could Be the Key For Humans to Reach Mars

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Gut microbes have immense benefit and now, new research reports that promoting a healthy gut microbiome could protect travelers from the rigours of long space travel. The review, published in the open-access journal Frontiers in Physiology, discussed a variety of studies suggesting that disruptions in the gut microbiome occur during space travel. “The literature suggests that nutritional countermeasures based on …

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