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New advice on optimizing your gut, a bestseller by Giulia Enders

Rumbling tummy? It doesn’t mean you need to eat – it’s your gut cleaning itself! A new book reveals the astonishing truth about how the human body digests food. What happens to food after we’ve eaten? The ins and outs of digestion are not normally considered suitable for polite conversation. But we should know more […]

Study examines therapeutic bacteria’s ability to prevent obesity

A probiotic that prevents obesity could be on the horizon. Bacteria that produce a therapeutic compound in the gut inhibit weight gain, insulin resistance and other adverse effects of a high-fat diet in mice, Vanderbilt University investigators have discovered. “Of course it’s hard to speculate from mouse to human,” said senior investigator Sean Davies, Ph.D., […]