Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Experts agree that the microbiome is important to human health. But many are skeptical about how useful these kits are.'Photograph ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Home test kits have been increasing in popularity over the last few hours, and it’s easy to see why. What’s more convenient than ...

Several companies offer direct-to-consumer test kits which promise to evaluate the microbiome, but experts say there is no way of defining a "healthy" microbiome and the kits need more regulatory ...

Should you get out your credit card to pay for one of the growing number of home microbiome test kits that come with big promises for what they will reveal about your health and how to improve it?

Your gut microbiome is like a thriving city of 100 trillion microscopic residents, invisible to the naked eye, living in your gut. No gut microbiome is the same – making yours truly one of a kind, ...

Lauren Silva, a freelance writer in New York City, believes in feeling good in your body and making that experience accessible to everyone across generations. The proof is in her ever-piling browser ...

Have you ever spent a really long time looking at a diagram of butanoate metabolism? Or wondered if your Firmicutes are producing butyrate? I’ve been having all kinds of thoughts like this since ...

The science of our gut microbiome is often painted as one of the hottest new areas of medicine, but there have also been claims that the research is being overhyped. The latest aspect of this field to ...

There is a great deal of excitement around microbiome research as it confirms, and debunks, long-held beliefs. Investigators have shown, for example, that proton-pump inhibitors can alter the ...

At around 10 years ago, at the time of the first publication by the Gut Microbiota for Health Expert Panel of the British ...