The connection between the gut and the brain is gaining attention as doctors and researchers uncover how digestion may quietly influence emotional health. The gut's vast network of nerves and bacteria ...

A novel treatment for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is on the horizon, with the discovery that two specific gut microbes produce serotonin that protects against inflammation and damage. Scientists ...

Scientists studying thousands of rats discovered that gut bacteria are shaped by both personal genetics and the genetics of social partners. Some genes promote certain microbes that can spread between ...

Eating a diet high in fat could have an unintended effect on the brain, according to researchers at Emory University in Georgia. A new study in mice that ate a fat-heavy diet showed that live bacteria ...

Vitamin D supplementation may help shape how the immune system responds to gut bacteria in people with inflammatory bowel ...