Feeding mice butyric acid improved their ability to burn fat on a high fat diet. The butyric acid improved their muscle function, health of brown adipose tissue, and various gene signals involved with fatty acid metabolism. Butyric acid also prevented insulin resistance from happening in these over-fed mice.

Your gut health affects your joint health. Learn what you can do to have a diverse gut microbiome and support your joints.

Normally we think of adverse accumulation of fat in the liver being caused by excess alcohol and over-eating. A new study demonstrates for the first time that an overgrowth of imbalanced bacteria and/or a “leaky gut” are associated with the severity of a build up of undesirable fat in the liver – a key marker of disease risk and progression into the...

A new study that documents how Salmonella food poisoning causes intense diarrhea illustrates the rather unbelievable nature of the war that can take place on the front lines of your digestive tract. Old and now rather stuffy explanations of immunity pit immune troops against foreign invaders, wherein bacteria were simply operating as individual entities...

A new study highlights just how vital it is to maintain healthy balance in your digestive tract. The researchers found that a single inflammatory signal resulting from too much H. pyloria is adequate to drive processes that result in stomach cancer, the second leading cause of cancer mortality around the world.

Effect of supplementation of micronutrients and phytochemicals to fructooligosaccharides on growth response of probiotics and E. coli.

Probiotic supplementation for respiratory and gastrointestinal illness symptoms in healthy physically active individuals