It also nourishes your gut microbes, and the compounds they produce can influence how your immune system develops and ...

Indian youngsters are increasingly suffering from digestive issues, which is pushing them to go for microbiome testing, according to experts. Abhishek Mukherjee, microbiologist and gut-microbiome ...

The benefits of dietary fiber extend beyond digestive health, as dietary fiber-derived metabolites produced by gut microbiota can influence immune function. Short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) are ...

Children with obesity saw therapeutic benefits with the addition of a daily oral butyrate supplement to standard of care, the randomized Butyrate Against Pediatric Obesity (BAPO) trial showed. In an ...

Human milk (HM) contains butyrate, a short-chain fatty acid (SCFA). This four-carbon fatty acid is present in HM at a varied concentration of 0.1–0.75 mg/100 mL. Butyrate has many biological functions ...