Your body produces postbiotics after digesting prebiotic and probiotic foods – and many postbiotics are crucial to good gut health.
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Two Australians with bipolar have been successfully treated with poo transplants, allowing them to come off, or reduce, their medications. Here’s where the science is up to.
New research dispels the myth that gut bacteria causes autism. Rather, changes in the gut bacteria of some people with autism are driven by restricted diets or ‘picky eating’.
You could say there are a ‘crapload’ of viruses in the human gut. Luckily, most of these do not attack our cells, but instead feed on bacteria.
If your gut is healthy to begin with, it will take more to knock it out of whack. Prepare yourself now by making food choices that feed the microbiome and enhance gut health.
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Bennett Chair of Autism, Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia
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Scientia Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Research Fellow in Healthy Ageing at NICM Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Microbiology, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer, Edith Cowan University
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PhD Candidate and Consultant Psychiatrist, Deakin University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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MD-PhD candidate, The University of Queensland
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Senior Research Fellow, Mater Research Institute - University of Queensland, The University of Queensland
