Adhering to the official Dietary Guidelines for Americans does more than just lower your blood pressure—it unlocks a thriving, diverse community of life-saving microbes in your gut.

Sam Possemiers, CEO of MRM Health, believes that the space is finally coming into maturity. At his own company, that’s in the ...

A large-scale analysis suggested that the gut microbiome can be modulated by diet with both favorable and unfavorable effects on markers of health. By analyzing metagenomic, diet, anthropometric, and ...

The Food Forum convened a public workshop that explored the current and emerging knowledge on the human microbiome, its role in human health, its interaction with the diet, and the translation of new ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Harvard Medical School Professor, Metabolic Health Innovator Metabolism is often reduced to a simple equation of calories in ...

Recent research indicates that consuming high levels of dietary salt for an extended period may disrupt the delicate balance ...

Several new studies have highlighted the connection between the community of microbes in the human gastrointestinal tract, and mental health. The gut microbiome seems to have a direct link to the ...

Driven by a fascination with bacteria, microbiologist Julie Kopczyńska has trawled through existing research on the gut microbiome and created an easy-to-use gut health calculator. She says it's a ...

Tiny wild blueberries may deliver outsized benefits for the heart, metabolism, gut, and brain, according to decades of ...

No matter how much they brush their teeth, some people still get more cavities than others, in part because of differences in ...