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Importance of a Healthy Gut Microbiome in Pregnant Mothers
Mothers have brought life into this world by carrying all of us inside their wombs with care and love. Today, we will be looking at the beginning of motherhood — pregnancy.
Diabetes and the Gut Microbiome
One of the ways your diet affects your health status is by modulating the composition of your gut microbiota. It has been found that normal gut microbiota affects the development of the immune system, nutrient absorption, tissue generation and bone homeostasis metabolism.
Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes: What’s the Deal?
The gut microbiome is the collection of bacteria, archaea, and eukarya that reside in the human gastrointestinal tract. Due to its roles in a broad range of physiological functions, the gut microbiome is now thought of as an organ of the body.
Bacterial Spotlight: All about Lactobacillus
Learn what Lactobacillus does in your gut, how it feeds other bacteria and shapes bile acids, and how to support it with fermented foods and fibre.
Does Where You Live Affect Your Gut Microbiome? | AMILI
Populations that live in different regions of the world have varying taxonomic compositions. Geographical location has an impact on the microbial populations due to prominent differences in diet across geographic regions. The abundance of a certain enterotype varies from region to region, thus resulting in gut microbial differences. So YES, geography does affect the microbiome!
Weight Management and the Gut Microbiome
Did you know that a healthy gut microbiome is an essential part of your weight management journey? We have a mutualistic relationship with our gut whereby our health can benefit from a diverse gut microbiome.
Prebiotics, Probiotics, and Personalised Nutrition
Prebiotics and probiotics are not terms that are strangers to any of us. Prebiotics and probiotics are most commonly consumed to boost gut health by improving the diversity of the gut microbiome. Research has shown that different individuals may have varying dietary responses due to our unique gut microbiota.
What is the Microbiome?
What is the microbiome? How does it affect our health? What is dysbiosis and why is it bad for you? In this Microbiome 101 article, you will learn the answers to these questions and more. Click to learn about the gut microbiome!
Linking Gut Microbiota to Symptom Severity in Perimenopausal Asian Women
19th Singapore Public Health & Occupational Medicine Conference (2025)