Misbalances in the gut microbiota can lead to diarrhea, constipation, inflammatory bowel, and other gut ailments. Even diabetes and allergies have been connected to the state of the gut microbiome, according to the International Scientific Association for Probiotics...
Fermented foods contain bacteria that will help build the gut microbiome. There are several foods and food supplements that contain probiotic bacteria. These include dietary supplements, pharmaceutical products, medical foods, and infant formula; fermented foods like...
Gut microbiota can get built by the bacteria in yogurt. A relationship between the microbiome found in the gut and cancer is extensively studied. These reveal a relationship between the two. A summary of the role of the gut microbiome in bowel cancer prevention is as...
The Human Microbiome Project – http://hmpdacc.org/- (HMP) was launched in 2008. It extends another ambitious global project- the Human Genome Project. HMP seeks to understand the metagenome (the combined genomes of all the microbes) of 300 healthy people. Five...
According to Robert Hutkins, professor of food science at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, our gut microbiota contains tens of trillions of microorganisms from more than 1,000 different species having a cumulative genetic base of more than 3 million genes. He also...
