The Microbiome by Scientific American Editors

Author:Scientific American Editors
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2019-01-07T00:00:00+00:00

The range of interventions that target the gut–brain axis continues to expand with the science. Francesco Rubino, who heads the metabolic and bariatric surgery section of King’s College London, explains that the initial thinking about how surgery worked so well to reverse metabolic disease focused heavily on the hormones involved. “We ended up finding out that, in addition to hormones, there are bile acids that are important as well for metabolism. And then we found that microbiota are important,” Rubino says. He notes that, more recently, researchers have uncovered how changes in the gut might be linked to inflammation in the brain, and how the alimentary canal is affecting metabolism in concert with the nervous system. “There are so many things that are starting to surface now as we discover that the gut is no longer just a digestive organ—it’s a metabolic organ.”

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