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What antibiotics do to your gut — and how completely it recovers
A course of antibiotics can wipe out a third of your gut’s diversity in days. Most of it grows back over months — but not all, and the rebui…
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Ozempic, GLP-1 and the gut: what the microbiome has to do with the weight-loss drugs
GLP-1 is a hormone your gut already makes — and your gut bacteria help trigger it. As GLP-1 drugs reshape medicine, here is the evidence-based map of where the microbiome actually fits, and where the probiotic marketing outruns it.
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Does Parkinson’s start in the gut? What the evidence actually shows
Constipation can precede the tremor by a decade, the brain’s rogue protein turns up in the gut wall first, and removing the vagus nerve seem…
Science
Fiber won’t fix everything — but here’s what it actually is, and does
Dietary fiber has some of the best evidence of any nutrient — and it is routinely oversold. What fiber really is, the types that matter, wha…
Gut–Brain
Psychobiotics: do probiotics actually help depression and anxiety?
The gut–brain axis is real, the mechanisms are plausible, and the marketing has run far ahead of the trials. What the meta-analyses actually…
Diagnostics
16S vs shotgun: what your microbiome test actually reads
Two sequencing methods sit behind nearly every gut test on the market, and they don’t read the same book. One tells you roughly who is there…
Science
The 39 trillion: what we actually mean when we say “the microbiome”
The cells that aren’t us roughly equal the ones that are. A field guide to the ecosystem riding along inside every human being — and why the…
Science
Short-chain fatty acids, explained without the hand-waving
The fiber you can’t digest doesn’t go to waste. Gut bacteria ferment it into small molecules your gut lining, immune cells and even your bra…
Industry
The probiotics market grows up: from yogurt aisle to strain-level precision
“Live cultures” is becoming a measurable claim. Inside the industry shift from vague probiotics to defined, characterized strains.
Diagnostics
Your at-home gut test and your friend’s might disagree more than your guts do
A 2026 NIST study found direct-to-consumer microbiome tests so inconsistent that the noise between brands rivaled the real biological differ…
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A stool transplant made cancer immunotherapy work better — across two cancers
In the phase 2 FMT-LUMINate trial, pairing a healthy-donor fecal transplant with checkpoint inhibitors pushed response rates to 80% in lung …
Therapeutics
It’s official: the FDA now approves medicines made of microbes
Within five months the agency cleared two first-in-class fecal-microbiota products for recurrent C. difficile — Ferring’s Rebyota and, in a …
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What antibiotics do to your gut — and how completely it recovers
A course of antibiotics can wipe out a third of your gut’s diversity in days. Most of it grows back over months — but not all, and the rebui…
Science
Fiber won’t fix everything — but here’s what it actually is, and does
Dietary fiber has some of the best evidence of any nutrient — and it is routinely oversold. What fiber really is, the types that matter, wha…
Science
The 39 trillion: what we actually mean when we say “the microbiome”
The cells that aren’t us roughly equal the ones that are. A field guide to the ecosystem riding along inside every human being — and why the…
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Gut–Brain
Does Parkinson’s start in the gut? What the evidence actually shows
Constipation can precede the tremor by a decade, the brain’s rogue protein turns up in the gut wall first, and removing the vagus nerve seem…
Gut–Brain
Psychobiotics: do probiotics actually help depression and anxiety?
The gut–brain axis is real, the mechanisms are plausible, and the marketing has run far ahead of the trials. What the meta-analyses actually…
Gut–Brain
The gut–brain axis: a primer on how microbes and the brain communicate
Bidirectional signalling between the gut, its microbes and the central nervous system is one of neuroscience’s fastest-moving frontiers. The…
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The probiotics market grows up: from yogurt aisle to strain-level precision
“Live cultures” is becoming a measurable claim. Inside the industry shift from vague probiotics to defined, characterized strains.
Industry
Ozempic, GLP-1 and the gut: what the microbiome has to do with the weight-loss drugs
GLP-1 is a hormone your gut already makes — and your gut bacteria help trigger it. As GLP-1 drugs reshape medicine, here is the evidence-bas…
Industry
Meet Akkermansia: the single strain dragging probiotics into the GLP-1 era
One gut bacterium has become the face of “next-generation” probiotics — a defined, characterized strain with human metabolic data and a tant…
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Diagnostics
16S vs shotgun: what your microbiome test actually reads
Two sequencing methods sit behind nearly every gut test on the market, and they don’t read the same book. One tells you roughly who is there…
Diagnostics
Your at-home gut test and your friend’s might disagree more than your guts do
A 2026 NIST study found direct-to-consumer microbiome tests so inconsistent that the noise between brands rivaled the real biological differ…
Diagnostics
Personalized nutrition gets its randomized trial — and a modest, real result
ZOE’s METHOD study put microbiome-informed, individualized diet advice up against standard guidelines in a 347-person RCT. The personalized …