Articles Tagged With: microbiome
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Gut Microbiome Metabolites and Progression of Parkinson’s Disease
A Mendelian randomization study shows that trimethylamine N-oxide and its precursor metabolites are not associated with risk of Parkinson’s disease (PD) but have both positive and negative causal effects on some indicators of PD severity and progression.
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Gut Microbiome in Patients at Risk for Parkinson’s Disease
Certain risk factors and prodromal markers of Parkinson’s disease (PD), such as constipation and rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder, are associated with specific bacterial compositions of the gut. However, the value of gut microbiome data to predict the risk of PD development needs further investigation.
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Gut Microbiome in Patients at Risk for Parkinson’s Disease
Certain risk factors and prodromal markers of Parkinson’s disease (PD), such as constipation and rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder, are associated with specific bacterial compositions of the gut. However, the value of gut microbiome data to predict the risk of PD development needs further investigation.
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Investigation Seeks Deeper Answers on Diet-Heart Disease Connections
Eating a plant-based diet may counteract gut microbials that raise risk of heart disease.
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Feeding the Microbiota: Complementary Foods Enhance Recovery in Malnourished Children by Modulating the Gut Microbiota
In a series of studies in gnotobiotic animals and malnourished children, incomplete recovery from malnutrition is associated with immature gut microbiota, and complementary foods directed to enhance microbiotal maturity improved recovery from malnutrition.
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Mechanism of Persistence of Moraxella catarrhalis in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
This study examines the mechanism that allows Moraxella catarrhalis to persist in some patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Not Just Bulk: Dietary Fiber Crucial to Good Health
Dietary fiber is crucial to maintaining a healthy gut microbiome. The microbiome helps determine our mental and physical health in ways that continue to be discovered.
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Can Hypnotherapy Change Our Microbiome?
Gut-directed hypnotherapy provided improvement in irritable bowel syndrome symptoms but failed to cause significant changes in study participants’ microbiome.
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A Twist in the Use of Spices: Prebiotic Effect
SYNOPSIS: Seven spices were found to contain numerous antioxidant phytochemicals and have an overall, but variable, prebiotic effect on 88 known species of microbiome bacteria.
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What Do the Urinary Microbiota and Incontinence Have to Do With Each Other?
Increased diversity of the microbiota in women is associated with urgency urinary incontinence symptoms but not with stress urinary incontinence symptoms.