Why Butyrate Never Reaches Your Bloodstream Lit Review Friday · Episode 31 Why Butyrate Never Reaches Your Bloodstream Your colon manufactures somewhere between five and ten grams of butyrate every day. Almost none of it makes...
Do Probiotics Have to Be Alive? Why the Temperature Matters. A lab ran a gut bacterium through an autoclave at 121 degrees, the same cycle used to sterilize surgical instruments, and human cells responded to the powder that came out....
How Gut Bacteria Make Brain Chemicals From Your Food For years we said the gut talks to the brain and waved our hands at how. In 2026, two papers got specific: one where bacteria build a brain chemical out...
Multiple Sclerosis and the Microbiome: There Are No Universal Good Bugs or Bad Bugs For a decade, studies of the gut microbiome in multiple sclerosis kept disagreeing with each other. One paper flagged a bug as the villain; the next found nothing; a third...
TMAO: One Molecule, a Whole-Body Conversation TMAO is the molecule the internet loves to hate: the red-meat compound, the one that clogs your arteries. Then a 2026 paper caught it driving a skin disease instead. The...
How Microplastics Affect Your Gut Microbiome (and Why There's Hope) A microscopic plastic particle in your gut never touches your liver. So why does the damage show up there anyway? The answer is the most hopeful thing in the whole...
