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Gut Health And Disease
New findings tie gut bacteria and gut-targeting drugs to conditions far beyond digestion, from liver and brain to side effects.
6 stories · 3 in the last two weeks
A new gut-repair drug is shifting fatty liver treatment toward the gut–liver barrier.
sciencedaily.com · 8 sources
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DT-109 repaired fatty liver disease in animals; whether it can do the same safely in people remains untested.
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DT-109 points to a larger shift: healing the gut may help interrupt the chain linking metabolism, inflammation, and liver damage.
GLP‑1 drugs like Ozempic are triggering widespread nail detachment (onycholysis) as an unrecognized adverse effect.
sciencesources.eurekalert.org · 8 sources
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The strongest current evidence is a substantial association, not a confirmed adverse-effect mechanism.
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The outsider reading focuses on how an unexpectedly high rate could reflect selection, reporting, or pre-existing nail disease rather than…
Dietary sugar during antibiotic treatment fuels dangerous gut pathogen blooms, proponents of dietary mitigation warn.
nature.com · 7 sources
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The leading evidence-based interpretation is that sugar-rich food may amplify antibiotic-induced microbiome injury.
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A cautious interpretation emphasizes limits on generalization and causality.
Imidazole propionate-producing gut bacteria may be driving accelerated brain aging, some researchers argue.
link.springer.com · 9 sources
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The strongest mainstream reading is that gut–brain biology is plausible and increasingly supported, but human evidence has not yet…
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A serious skeptical interpretation emphasizes that most human findings are observational, microbiome measurements are variable, and brain…
Plasma imidazole propionate (ImP) is a contributing cause of Alzheimer’s pathology — or so recent genetic and animal studies suggest.
nature.com · 6 sources
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The leading interpretation is that ImP is a plausible modifier of Alzheimer’s-related pathology.
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A more cautious reading separates human association from preclinical causation.
Specific BNST neuron subtypes are the hidden switch that turns cannabis into anxiety during stress.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · 9 sources
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The strongest direct evidence in humans concerns THC-related anxiety and amygdalar CB1 receptors, not identified BNST neurons.
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A biologically plausible alternative interpretation is that stress changes cannabinoid signaling in BNST circuits, making specific cell…