Boosting your gut health sounds great. But this wellness trend is vague and often misunderstood
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If you walk down the supermarket aisle, you may be tempted with foods marketed as being good for your gut. Then there are the multiple health blogs about improving, supporting or maintaining your gut health .
But what does gut health mean? Is it the absence of disease? Is it no bloating? Or is it something else entirely? And how strong is the evidence gut health products actually make a difference?
Heidi Staudacher Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Food & Mood Centre, Deakin University
But what does “gut health” mean? Is it the absence of disease? Is it no bloating? Or is it something else entirely? And how strong is the evidence “gut health” products actually make a difference?
As we explain in our article just published in the journal Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, even researchers have not quite nailed a definition. Here’s what we know so far.
What does the science say?
We know the gut is important for our overall health and well-being. And when we say “gut”, we usually mean the large intestine, the region of the gastrointestinal tract where most of our gut microbiome lives.
Probiotics could hold the answer to neurological issues, study suggests A new study in mice with social behaviour deficits has suggested the gut plays a lead role in behaviour and brain function and microbiome modulating products may hold the key to treatment of social neurological disorders.
Dr. Mauro Costa-Mattioli, professor and Cullen Foundation Endowed Chair in neuroscience and director of the Memory and Brain Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas, discovered with his team that different abnormal behaviours are interdependently regulated by the host s genes and microbiome.
The findings, published in the journal
Cell, reveal that in mouse models with neurodevelopmental disorders, hyperactivity is controlled by the host s genetics, whereas social behaviour deficits are mediated by the gut microbiome.
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