gut-health
12 stories tagged "gut-health"
Cold Cuts and Breakfast Cereal Pulled Opposite Ways in a Giant Colon Cancer Study
In 461,682 Americans, total ultra-processed food showed no link to colorectal cancer. Inside the label, reconstituted meat products tracked with higher risk and packaged bread and cereal with lower, while a federal definition sits under White House review.
Autoimmune & InflammationYour Celiac Blood Test Can Read Normal While Your Gut Stays Damaged
The standard antibody test can read perfectly normal while a celiac patient's intestine stays inflamed. In one Oslo cohort, a nine-protein blood signal tracked the damage the antibodies kept missing.
Autoimmune & InflammationA Bacterial Syringe, a Mouse Gut Lining, and Eight Months of Immune Memory
In mice, the cells lining the colon present bacterial antigens themselves, and whether a lasting memory forms tracks with where inside the cell the antigen lands rather than how much of it arrives.
Infectious DiseaseThe Gut Lining Was Supposed to Be Plumbing. A 500,000-Cell Atlas Caught It Fighting Each Microbe Differently.
Six microbes, six different reprogrammings of the intestinal lining, including a cell state that appears only during one bacterial infection and concentrates inside the lesions that bug builds.
Nutrition & FoodSugar on the Hospital Tray Tracked With Deeper Antibiotic Damage to the Gut
Among 173 transplant patients on antibiotics, each extra 100 grams of sugar went with 24 percent lower gut diversity, and the nutrition shakes hospitals often recommend appeared to do the most harm.
Nutrition & FoodThe Study Clearing Sucralose Was Co-Written by the Company That Makes It
An independent lab found sucralose's byproduct breaks chromosomes and loosens the gut wall in cell experiments. The rebuttal telling you it's fine was co-written by the company that manufactures sucralose.
Brain & AgingFour Times the Odds of Losing Bowel Control: An ADHD Gut Signal Tangled Up With the Medication
Stimulants list constipation, nausea, and stomach pain among their common side effects. Most of the 23 studies pooling 1.9 million people never separated the medicated from the unmedicated, so the gut signal and the drug effect sit tangled together.
Nutrition & FoodPepsi Paid $1.95 Billion for Poppi, in a Category That Averages as Much Sugar as Fiber
UNC researchers read the labels on 108 prebiotic sodas and found roughly 5 grams of fiber, 5 grams of sugar, and, in most cans, a non-nutritive sweetener. Poppi agreed to an $8.9 million settlement over its gut-health claims; months later Pepsi paid $1.95 billion for it.
Autoimmune & InflammationThe Anti-Inflammatory Worm That Only Works If You Feed It Fiber
Feed a rat plenty of fiber and a harmless tapeworm reaches full size and quiets the immune system. Cut the fiber to Western levels and the same worm shrinks, stops reproducing, and its anti-inflammatory power switches off.
Autoimmune & InflammationThe Allergy Cell Everyone Wanted Dead Turns Out to Run Your Gut Lining and Your Metabolism
Eosinophils were the villain of asthma and allergy, the cell whole-body drugs are built to erase. A decade of tissue biology says they also seal your gut, feed your antibodies, and tune your fat, and the trials never measured any of it.
Nutrition & FoodYour Kombucha Is Only as Good as the Tea You Brewed It From
A new five-tea kombucha study finds the antioxidant punch depends almost entirely on the tea you start with, with green and oolong on top and the label never telling you.
Nutrition & FoodThe sugar-free mice got sicker, and the press release left out what they were eating instead
A 16-week mouse study presented at ENDO 2026 reported that sugar-free animals developed insulin resistance, gut dysbiosis and fatty liver at the same body weight as controls. The press release never says what replaced the sugar, and that single missing detail decides what the study actually means.