microbiome

Study links high-fat diets to anxiety

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Study links high-fat diets to anxiety

(NewsNation) — New research from the University of Colorado Boulder suggests high-fat diets may disrupt gut bacteria and fuel anxiety. Researchers divided male adolescent rats into two groups and fed half a standard diet of about 11% fat for nine weeks. The other group at a diet of about 45% fat, comprised mostly of saturated … Read more

Unruly Gut Fungi Can Make Your Covid Worse

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Unruly Gut Fungi Can Make Your Covid Worse

When the team infected mice with Candida albicans strains taken from the severely affected Covid patients, they discovered that the mice generated increased fungal antibodies and neutrophils. And when they then treated these infected mice with the common antifungal drug fluconazole, numbers of these fungal-induced neutrophils decreased—as did the quantity of fungal antibodies. This indicated … Read more