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Heartburn Pills May Have Side Effects

Popular heartburn pills known as proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) may be making some people more prone to bacterial infections by altering the types of bugs that grow in the gut, a U.K. study of twins suggests. These pills work by stopping cells in the stomach lining from producing too much acid, which can prevent ulcers…

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One man’s poop is another’s medicine

This is an amazing article from CNN and written by John Bonifield and Elizabeth Cohen or CNN Health. People take antibiotics all the time without thinking they sometimes fail to work. This article shows how health bacteria or microbes can be transplanted to help fight out the bad bacteria. Medford, MA (CNN)It’s the middle of…

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Can Probiotics Improve Your Mood?

There’s a big difference between thinking you’re taking a probiotic—and actually taking one Bacteria appears to do a body a lot of good, from bolstering immunity to easing digestion. Recent evidence also points to certain bacteria as influencing mood, by producing compounds that travel from the intestine to the brain. (There’s even the name for…

Human Gut Check

Human Gut Check Finds Bacteria Sorted in Ways That May Aid in Treatments By Cecile Vannucci – Apr 20, 2011 12:00 PM CT Scientists have categorized trillions of bacteria that live in the human gut into three types of systems that may one day be used to diagnose and treat colon cancer and inflammatory bowel…