Diet and microbiota linked in health and disease

Montiel-Castro et al. (2013) reveals to us the increasingly likely fact that as well as protecting the host from pathogens, metabolizing complex lipids and polysaccharides and thereby making certain nutrients accessible, neutralizing drugs and carcinogens, altering intestinal motility, and making visceral perception possible, the microbiota within the gut play an influential role in various physiological […]

Although the exact processes are yet unknown, probiotic administration has been demonstrated to improve athletes’ body composition and endurance performance. Athletes’ gut microbiota can offer quantifiable indicators of immunological function, and microbial composition analysis may aid in the identification of exercise-induced stress and metabolic problems. In this double-blind controlled trial by Want et al. (2024), […]