Stomach acid can dissolve probiotics and lessen their efficacy. Nature’s Bounty uses an enteric coating to protect the ...

At a time of year when many are spring cleaning homes, here’s advice from experts: Protect your house’s microbiome for your health. The world around us, including our homes, is full of microorganisms ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. First, some background: Everyone has a gut microbiome — a unique set of microorganisms, or microbes, that live mainly in our small ...

Researchers have learned more about how beneficial bacteria in the gut microbiome can help protect against infection. The study also suggested that the right diet can improve the health of the ...

Harvard immunologist Dennis Kasper and his colleagues have found that tiny changes in gut bacteria can flip the immune system from calm to inflamed, even when the microbes look harmless. Their work, ...

Fermented foods are delicious and contain "good" microbes that support gut health. David Zilber, chef and fermentation expert, has a constant rotation of ferments in his fridge. Zilber loves having ...

Balance must be maintained among the trillions of microbes that live in the gastrointestinal tract. The gut microbiome has to host enough beneficial microbes to help control the levels of potentially ...

Scientists have pinpointed a group of bacteria that consistently appear in high numbers in healthy people, suggesting that these could one day be targeted through diet or probiotics ...

Antibiotics kill disease-causing bacteria as well as the beneficial ones living in our gut, disturbing the health-maintaining microbiome. A new antibiotic specifically targets hard-to-kill bacteria ...