The food-gut human axis: The effects of diet on gut microbiota and metabolome

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 […]

This 2019 study explains that microorganisms can produce communication signals, both to interact with other microbial cells and with the host organism. While the gastrointestinal tract is commonly a home for many of these microbiota, these microorganisms can inhabit various niches of the host organism. These microorganisms respond to host signals, enabling them to interact […]