Do eggs really make you constipated? A gut expert on what the evidence says
You might've heard too many eggs make you constipated. Influencers on Instagram claim it too. The United Kingdom has slang for it—being "egg bound."
Mar 19, 2025
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Bacteria: News and Research on Gram-Negative Anaerobic Bacteria
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Forget apples—researcher outlines how an orange a day may reduce depression risk by 20%
]Eating an orange a day may lower a person's depression risk by 20%, according to a study published in Microbiome. That might be because citrus stimulates the growth of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii (F. prausnitzii), a type ...
Feb 24, 2025
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Gut microbiome changes linked to multiple sclerosis, study finds
The gut microbiome comprises the trillions of bacteria and other microorganisms that live in our digestive tracts, and it has been increasingly connected to human health and disease. A new Yale study reveals significant differences ...
Feb 20, 2025
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Stalled microbiomes: Study reveals cystic fibrosis disrupts early gut development in infants
Findings from a new Dartmouth-led study, published in the journal mBio, highlight key differences in the gut microbiome (communities of bacteria) of infants with cystic fibrosis (CF) compared to that of healthy infants, and ...
Feb 13, 2025
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Bacteria in your mouth may hold clues to your brain health and dementia risk
Could the bacteria in your mouth predict whether you are at risk of dementia? Emerging research suggests that the bacteria living on your tongue and gums may affect how the brain works and how it changes as we age. In turn, ...
Feb 5, 2025
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Half of adult ticks in the Northeast carry Lyme disease bacteria, study reveals
Across most of the Northeast, getting bitten by a blacklegged tick—also called a deer tick—is a risk during spring, summer, and fall. A new Dartmouth study, published in Parasites and Vectors, finds that 50% of adult blacklegged ...
Jan 16, 2025
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Fiber may help protect your gut from overgrowth of harmful bugs—new study
Our body isn't just human—it's home to trillions of microorganisms found in or on us. In fact, there are more microbes in our gut than there are stars in the Milky Way. These microbes are essential for human health, but scientists ...
Jan 11, 2025
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Eating fiber-rich foods could help prevent harmful gut bacteria growth
The group of bacteria called Enterobacteriaceae, including Klebsiella pneumoniae, Shigella, E. coli and others, is present at low levels as part of a healthy human gut microbiome. But at high levels—caused, for example, by ...
Jan 10, 2025
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RNA's influence on sugar metabolism could transform gut health strategies
Researchers at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) and the Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) in Würzburg have identified a protein and a group of small ribonucleic acids (sRNAs) in Bacteroides ...
Jan 9, 2025
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Scientists discover why breast cancer drug works better for some people
A new study has shown that variation in the microbiota of the human gut impacts the pharmacokinetics of tamoxifen and thus the effectiveness of the drug. The finding, published in the journal mBio, suggests that in the future, ...
Nov 25, 2024
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