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A 2026 Cell Host & Microbe paper found that people with IBS-D and people with insulin resistance are missing the same gut-derived molecule. The mechanism runs through peripheral serotonin.
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A 2026 Cell Metabolism paper found that dietary fructose is converted by gut bacteria into an alcohol-like toxin that damages the liver — and that a specific fiber strategy shuts the pathway down.
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A closer look at Type 2 resistant starch — a fiber your gut microbes ferment differently from any other — and why some people respond dramatically while others barely respond at all.
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A closer look at the microbiome pathways behind polycystic ovary syndrome, the clinical evidence on synbiotics, and where a daily synbiotic fits into the fuller picture.
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Five small changes the microbiome research actually supports — and two panics it doesn't.
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Your gut bacteria would be one of the first places plastic exposure registers. Here is what the research says today — mechanism, correlation, and the parts that are still open.
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Three things decide whether a probiotic actually does the job you are hoping for: the right species, the right strain, and enough of it to matter.
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Mucus, microbes, gut wall — a plain-language tour of where the science says most of it goes, and what the small fraction left behind is doing
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