Browsing: Gut Health & Microbiome

Mythbusting our relationship with the trillions of microorganisms living in our gut

Mirage News Mirage NewsScience20 Jul 2026 11:43 pm AESTDate Time Pennsylvania State University

Influencersare pedaling supplements fromfood products to probiotics; others, like the Lucky Gut Collective suggest meals and recipes about an area long considered little more than your body’s plumbing system

Gut microbiome–epigenetic crosstalk in obesity and type 2 diabetes: mechanisms, evidence, and translational opportunities

Cambridge researchers have shown how commonly-used sweeteners slow the growth of certain gut bacteria. One sweetener in particular – isosteviol – when combined with the anti-depressant duloxetine significantly impaired two important gut bacteria linked to regulating blood sugar and gut health and may affect the body’s immune responses

The microbiome has been associated with gut health, risks of cardiac and metabolic disease, and even mental health, where the bacterial communities and the products that they produce influence human biology.1-4 Yet, in part because of the microbiome’s complexity, many of these studies have been limited to characterizing these populations broadly or investigating the impacts…

Researchers from Zoe and King’s College London conducted a six-week trial to assess the effects of Daily30, a blend designed to be mixed into food or drinks. They compared it with a probiotic supplement containing Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus GG – a well-studied probiotic strain known for supporting gut health, maintaining the intestinal barrier, and helping balance…

A growing supplements market may be trying to capitalise on this claim, but the truth is we still don’t know what a truly healthy gut microbiome really looks like

1. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vignan’s Foundation for Science, Technology and Research, Guntur, India

Antibiotic treatments can affect the composition of the community of bacteria living in the gut, known as the gut microbiome, for a long time. A new study shows that certain types of antibiotics can be linked to changes in the gut microbiome as long as four to eight years after treatment. The findings have now…