Richard Peet, J.D., Ph.D. THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF INULIN: FROM CLINICAL EVIDENCE TO FUTURE INNOVATION Part 1: Why Inulin Matters for Obesity, Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Disease Public Health ContextObesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease (CVD) remain major public health challenges in the United States. Nearly 3 in 4 adults are overweight or…

Researchers have discovered that a common fungus that is part of the gut microbiota produces a metabolite that protects against, and even reverses, advanced forms of fatty liver disease in mice.

The third most abundant component in human milk are prebiotic substances that serve as food for the infant’s gut microbiota. It is astounding to consider that highly nutritious human milk, designed through thousands of years of evolution to nourish a newborn infant, contains large quantities of a substance that, for…

The presence of a diverse array of bacteria in the gut microbiome contributes to protection against pathogen infection.  Among the mechanisms of protection, the presence of gut bacteria with diverse metabolic requirements makes it difficult for pathogens to find sufficient food thereby reducing the incidence of disease.  Protection from infection…

Yes, as biomolecules produced by bacteria in the woman’s gut are encapsulated in extracellular vesicles (EVs) that accumulate in the amniotic fluid surrounding the fetus. The EVs are ingested by the fetus. Specifically, bacteria in the mother’s large intestine or colon produce EVs. These EVs carry biomolecules, such as protein…

The conventional answer is that each human has somewhere between 20,000 and 25,000 genes, but is this accurate? Absolutely not! A whole human may contain more than 2,000,000 different genes.