A high-fat diet can cause the intestinal lining to weaken, allowing live gut bacteria to travel directly to the brain in mice ...

Learn how feeding mice a high-fat diet can weaken their gut barrier, allowing bacteria to enter the brain, which suggests a ...

New molecular insights into the link between hepatocellular carcinoma and intratumoral fibrosis could lead to better ...

It's a well-known fact that stress negatively impacts mental health, but the effect of stress on the digestive system is ...

A guide to shopping and eating for nourishment — not just pleasure Every March, National Nutrition Month invites us to pause and ask a question most of us avoid: Why do I eat what I eat? Not what ...

Researchers discovered that gut bacteria could travel to the brain via the vagus nerve in mice, offering clues to the gut-brain axis’ involvement in some neurological disorders. Weiss, Grakoui, and ...

Background Gut bacteria have been implicated in a wide range of health conditions, yet their potential role in preventing and treating muscle-wasting disorders remains largely unexplored. Objective We ...

Voluntary exercise reshapes gut microbiota and tryptophan metabolism, with consequences for the hippocampus, the ...

Something happens when a rat starts running. Not just the obvious things, the faster heart, the warming muscles, the rhythmic percussion of paws against the wheel. Something quieter. Something that ...

The peer-reviewed research article in Brain Medicine titled "Exercise induces changes in tryptophan metabolism by gut microbes associated with hippocampal function in adult rats," is freely available ...

Current findings reveal no support for emotional benefits from probiotic cosmetics, highlighting the need for further investigation into neurocosmetics.

Microplastics and nanoplastics are increasingly recognized as pervasive environmental contaminants that accumulate in animals ...