gut bacteria

What You Need to Know Scientists have discovered that the trillions of bacteria living in your gut don't just help you digest food—they also control how much testosterone your body has available to use. They're calling this system the "testobolome," similar to how gut bacteria also regulate...

Preserved stool samples, chilled down to negative-112 degrees Fahrenheit, could hold the secret to curing illness later on in life, according to scientists from Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The proof is in the poop, say researchers who, in a recent report...

Drinking a beer a day could improve the diversity of men's gut bacteria, even if it's non-alcoholic, according to a small study. To understand the effect of alcoholic and non alcoholic beer on the diversity of gut bacteria, researchers from Nova University Lisbon, Portugal, asked 19 healthy...