Gut Microbiota and Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis, the main risk factor for cardiovascular disease, is characterized by cholesterol plaques in the arterial walls formed through a co...
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Vitamin D requires Gut-microbiome activation to work
Vitamin D helps regulate calcium and phosphate in the body to maintain our bones, teeth, and muscles. Nowadays, studies confirm the beneficial effe...
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Gut Microbiota and Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes is a disorder of the body’s energy supply system which absorbs dietary glucose (its primary energy source) from the gut and either ...
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Chemical Messengers Link Gut-Brain connection
Since the era of the microbiota reloaded in the late past century, we have come to realize how our gut bugs may shape our life. It now widely accep...
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Antibiotic resistance and postbiotics
Antibiotic resistance is inherent to microbes' nature Since the 1940s, antibiotics have significantly reduced illness and death from microbial infe...
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Stable gut, happy skin?
The gut and skin share common features: both act as barriers to the outside world, protecting harmful substances from reaching the internal environ...
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A 'resilient' Gut Microbiota may be a critical factor in healthy ageing
As we age, our microbiota also ages with us. This aging of the microbiota manifests itself with a gradual loss of its diversity, composition and fu...
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Vitamin D and gut immunity: more than bones
In these days of the pandemic, #immunity became a trending hashtag. Once thought to be just for "bones", Vitamin D has taken centre stage as a grea...
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Microbiota: educating our immune system
The adaptive immune system of a newborn is very naïve. Still, it learns at a fast pace to recognize and differentiate microbial friends from foes. ...
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