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Microbiomes play an important role in human health and disease - and maintain a healthy metabolism and immune system.
Imbalances in microbiome’s result in digestion, gut problems, obesity, diabetes, and surprisingly, brain disorders.
Gut problems may be present several decades before typical symptoms appear.
The gut-brain axis plays a role in irritable bowel syndrome, celiac disease, and colitis.
Imbalance in microbiome usually leads to digestive problems known as gut dysbiosis.
Scientists found link between dysbiosis on different neurological disorders, including Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s and Parkinson’s disease, and multiple sclerosis.
A diet rich in fibre, limiting stress, alcohol use and smoking, exercising daily, and using a probiotic can all bolster our gut microbiome’s health.
Microbiome-targeted therapies might present a new way of treating or minimising diseases.
Lynne A Barker and Caroline Jordan from Sheffield Hallam University discuss the latest research.
