When combined with specific Bacteroides bacteria, acetate rewires metabolism, boosting fat burning and reducing sugar ...

Researchers have discovered a new way to reduce obesity. Supplying the gut with extra acetate reduces fat and liver mass in ...

In a nutshell Just two days of eating a high-fat diet can impair critical immune cells in the gut, weakening the intestinal ...

Mice genetically engineered to lack the ability to make the amino acid cysteine, and fed a cysteine-free diet, lost 30 percent of their body weight in just one week, a new study shows.

The researchers also reintroduced microbes to the mice after antibiotics through fecal microbial transplants. The rationale ...

Mice fed a normal diet (left) have healthy, well-organised gut tissues. The gut tissue of those fed a high-fat diet (right) is disrupted, with thickening of the gut wall (pink) and an accumulation ...

Fasting, a tradition in many cultures for thousands of years, now gets buzz about its potential health benefits. In particular, researchers are looking at intermittent fasting, where you switch ...

Mice genetically engineered to lack the ability to make the amino acid cysteine, and fed a cysteine-free diet, lost 30 percent of their body weight in ...