Short-term study suggests vegan diet can boost gut microbes related to body weight, body composition and blood sugar control
New research suggests that a 16-week vegan diet can boost the gut microbes that are related to improvements in body weight, body composition and blood sugar control.
September 16, 2019 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: 16-week-vegan, body-composition, body-weight, boost-the-gut, diet, gut-microbes, nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, research-suggests
Gut microbes switch host genes on and off under influence of diet
New study of mice shows gut microbes alter gene expression – depending on diet – with a Western diet preventing many of the changes of a plant-rich one.
November 25, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: alter-gene, biology / biochemistry, depending-on-diet, diet-preventing, gut-microbes, mice-shows, nutritional counseling, the-changes, western
Drugging the microbiome may treat heart disease
A first-of-a-kind drug that interferes with the metabolic activity of gut microbes could one day treat heart disease in humans, according to a mouse study published in Cell.
December 17, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: day-treat, diet, gut-microbes, heart-disease, metabolic, mouse-study, nutritional counseling, the-metabolic
Gut microbes determine what diet is best for you
With a new mathematical model, researchers are able to explain how different levels of diversity in gut microbes lead to different responses to diets.
September 13, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: different-levels, different-responses, explain-how, gut-microbes, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets
