by Lisa Marshall, University of Colorado at Boulder Artichokes are among the many foods rich in prebiotics. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Whether it’s from jetting across time zones, pulling all-nighters at school or working the overnight shift, chronically disrupting our circadian rhythm—or internal biological clocks—can take a measurable toll on everything from sleep, mood and metabolism...
Prebiotics are an intriguing potential approach to curbing some of the severe side effects that life-saving immunotherapy treatments can wreak on the gut, according to an analysis of recent studies and clinical trials by researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center. Rather than trying to introduce beneficial strains of bacteria directly into a...
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS Annals of Internal Medicine Tip Sheet Below please find summaries of new articles that will be published in the next issue of Annals of Internal Medicine. The summaries are not intended to substitute for the full articles as a source of information. 1. More data needed to determine the safety of probiotics and...
Supplements do not provide enough ‘good’ bacteria to replace the ‘bad’ bacteria That’s according to a professor of microbiology at Colorado State University Only 43 reach the gut and cannot ‘politely ask the million or so’ bad strains to go Studies suggest synbiotics – probiotics combined with prebiotics – are beneficial Taking probiotic supplements has...
