Anyone who has weathered a bad stomach bug knows the feeling: a loss of appetite that sets in and lingers, even after the ...

Know how your gut microbiome influences brain function, immunity, and disease risk, and learn simple ways to improve gut ...

A new study suggests that vitamin D may help people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) by promoting a more balanced, ...

Vitamin D supplementation is linked to less disease activity and inflammation in inflammatory bowel disease and may restore ...

Gut bacteria aren’t just passive passengers—they can actively send proteins straight into our cells. Using microscopic injection systems, even harmless microbes can influence immune responses and ...

Trillions of microbes live in the human gastrointestinal tract, where they play critical roles in our health and biology; they can help us break down food, absorb nutrients; and they affect the immune ...

A pair of studies published in the journal Immunity have found that high-fat diets can strip the gut of a key class of ...

The gut contains the largest collection of immune cells in the body. New research at the Buck Institute shows that some of those immune cells travel along the brain/gut axis in a mouse model of ...

The role of the gut-brain axis in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has emerged over recent years as a possible target for therapeutics. But the mechanism linking the two remains to be fully elucidated. In ...

Vitamin D supplementation may help shape how the immune system responds to gut bacteria in people with inflammatory bowel ...

Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs), such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and multiple sclerosis (MS), represent a growing global health burden ...

A quiet but powerful process begins the moment food touches your mouth. Long before your immune system reacts, bacteria in ...