All Butyrate articles – Page 2

  • potatoes-5796_1280
    News

    Potato supplement modifies gut microbiome, with implications for bone marrow transplants

    2023-10-23T08:19:00Z

    Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Michigan conducted a phase I pilot study to assess the feasibility of using potato starch as a dietary intervention to modify the gut microbiome in bone marrow transplant patients. The study, which appears in the journal Nature ...

  • jamie-street-WvZ4dTE7dLI-unsplash
    News

    ME linked to changes in the gut microbiome and metabolites

    2023-02-08T12:00:00Z

    Two studies have found that myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is associated with reduced levels in the gastrointestinal microbiome of microbes known to produce the fatty acid butyrate, disruptions that could explain in part how the immune system becomes disrupted in people with ME/CFS.