gut-microbiome

Herbicides sprayed on your lawn, your food crops, and your local park may be quietly disrupting t...

Humble yam you might grow in your garden or buy at the farmers market contains microscopic protec...

The turmeric you add to cooking, the green tea you brew, and herbal supplements like ginseng are ...

Kudzu — the aggressive vine smothering trees along roadsides across the American South — harbors ...

Herbs and vegetables you grow — garlic, ginger, chamomile, turmeric — don't just flavor your food...

Vegetables, fruits, and whole grains you grow and eat contain fibers whose exact structure shapes...

Legumes and fruits you grow or buy at the farmers market — like mung beans and figs — may do far ...

Pesticides used in your garden or on nearby farms don't just kill pests — they accumulate in the ...

The elderberries, rosehips, and culinary herbs you grow out back are quietly stocking your gut wi...

An orchid you might grow on your windowsill produces a natural compound that could one day help t...

If you grow stevia in your garden or use it to sweeten your tea, the way it's processed before it...

Fiber that protects against a blood cancer comes from the same fruits, vegetables, legumes, and w...

Fruits, vegetables, and herbs growing in your garden may contain microscopic particles that resea...

Reishi mushrooms you might grow at home or take as a supplement deliver most of their immune bene...

The black goji berries you might grow along a sunny fence or find dried at a specialty market car...

Berries, herbs, and vegetables in your garden are packed with polyphenols, and this research sugg...

It means the plants in your garden or on your plate may carry microscopic healing particles that,...

Agave waste from tequila and mezcal production could end up in your next probiotic yogurt or fibe...

The lotus growing in your local pond isn't just a pretty water plant, its leaves contain compound...

Banana pseudostems are typically hauled off as waste after harvest, so if that fibrous inner core...

Those graceful arching stems of Solomon's Seal you cut back each fall — the parts most growers to...

The growth signals coursing through your bean plants after you water them — the same chemical fam...

It validates a humble garden herb — Cat's Whiskers, which many people grow as an ornamental — as ...

The aromatic herbs you grow on your windowsill or in your garden are being seriously studied as n...

Hardy orchid (Bletilla striata) — the pleated-leaf, magenta-flowered plant already thriving in sh...

Kudzu, the vine smothering roadsides and forest edges across the American South, turns out to car...

A plant compound already present in everyday herbs and vegetables may one day help treat debilita...

Legumes and seeds you grow in your garden — lentils, beans, sunflower — are the exact foods this ...

Dendrobium orchids, long prized in Chinese medicine and increasingly grown as ornamentals, turn o...

The chamomile in your tea cabinet and the parsley in your garden bed contain apigenin, a compound...

Cistanche grows by stealing nutrients from the roots of desert shrubs like saxaul, and the same c...

Citrus peels and juice you compost or discard carry microscopic molecular signals that, even afte...

Siberian Solomon's seal, a graceful woodland plant many gardeners grow for its arching stems and ...

Chirayita grows wild across Himalayan foothills and has been brewed as a bitter tonic tea for cen...

A humble seed steeped as tea across Asian households for centuries turns out to work on gut bacte...

Growing chicory, Jerusalem artichokes, or garlic in your garden puts some of the most potent preb...

Ginseng growing in your woodland garden or shade bed holds polysaccharides in its roots that feed...

The herbs, berries, and vegetables in your garden may do more than feed you — their natural compo...

The leathery peel you've been composting from pomegranates grown in warm-climate gardens or bough...

The fermented vegetables, legumes, and whole grains you grow and eat don't just feed you — they f...

Herbs and botanicals you grow or forage — from turmeric to green tea to legumes — may be quietly ...

Every fermented vegetable, bean dish, or whole grain you grow and eat is quietly shaping the micr...

Plant fibers in crops like wheat bran, oat hulls, and vegetable scraps could become far more valu...

Herbs, teas, fermented foods, and fiber-rich vegetables you grow or buy at the farmers market may...

Snake-needle grass, a sprawling groundcover long stocked in Chinese apothecaries and now naturali...

The oats and barley you might grow or cook with contain proteins that feed specific gut bacteria,...

Yellow tea plants, cultivated for centuries in China's mountain gardens and increasingly grown by...

Tiny molecular packets that plants use for internal signaling can survive digestion and enter the...

Eating fruits, vegetables, and fermented foods delivers microscopic particles that quietly coach ...

Growing and eating the leafy greens, legumes, and colorful vegetables in your garden may be one o...

The fibrous structural carbohydrates in roots, stems, and seed coats of plants you grow or forage...

If you or a gardening friend deal with gout flare-ups, this plant used in Chinese herbal medicine...

The compound driving this effect, 6'-O-caffeoylarbutin, comes from a foraged herbal tea plant, a ...

The licorice root in your herb garden isn't just a soothing tea ingredient; a small clinical tria...

The ginseng root sold in health-food stores and grown in shaded woodland gardens may work its med...

The knobby Solomon's seal rhizome sold in herbal medicine shops turns out to work by feeding spec...

The beans, greens, and whole grains you grow or buy contain proteins your own gut enzymes can't b...

The reeds lining wetland trails and drainage ditches are notoriously hard for animals (and indust...

Herbs you might already grow — astragalus, ginger, licorice root — are now being rigorously valid...

Every apple, carrot, and bean in your garden packs its cell walls with pectin and other complex c...

Many herbal remedies your grandmother swore by are only now getting the scientific tools needed t...

Herbs and plant extracts you might grow or forage—from ginger to chamomile—are now being studied ...

The oats or barley you grow for breakfast feed gut bacteria that, in turn, release chemical signa...

Every high-fiber meal you eat from your garden — the beans, the kale, the winter squash — activel...

Dandelion roots you pull as lawn weeds are loaded with inulin — the same plant fiber now shown to...

Soybeans and legumes you grow or buy at the farmers market may do more than feed you — the protei...

Kudzu — the vine choking forests across the American South — sheds microscopic particles that rew...

Astragalus, the spiny-leafed perennial grown for ornamental seed pods and traditional medicine, c...

The fiber in your garden greens, whole grains, and that resistant starch in cooled potatoes only ...

The licorice plant many gardeners grow for its sweet roots and pollinator-friendly purple flowers...

Fermenting plain sugar water into water kefir at home — the same low-tech craft as brewing tepach...

The blueberries, pomegranates, and green tea you grow or buy aren't just antioxidant-rich foods—y...

Vegetables and fruits you grow and eat interact with your gut bacteria differently depending on h...

If you grow lupins or peaches and eat them fresh from the garden, the fats naturally present on t...

Every handful of beans, leafy greens, or berries from your garden feeds gut bacteria that activel...

The vegetables, legumes, and olive oil you're already growing or buying could double as a low-cos...

Fiber-rich, plant-heavy foods you grow and eat in your garden — from leafy greens to legumes — di...

The bacteria fermenting your homemade sauerkraut or kimchi are the same ones scientists are strug...

The vegetables, legumes, and whole grains you grow or choose at the market aren't just food, they...

Tiny vesicles shed by the edible plants in your garden — not extracted chemicals, but the plants'...

Herbal compounds used in traditional medicine for centuries are now backed by clinical evidence f...

Fermented plant foods — kimchi, miso, sauerkraut — are among the richest sources of the probiotic...

Every tomato, bean, and leafy green you grow and eat is quietly feeding a community of gut bacter...

Reducing methane from livestock is one of the most actionable ways to cut agricultural greenhouse...

If you've read claims about which plant-derived fungi or botanical compounds live in your gut mic...

Growing high-fiber vegetables and legumes in your garden puts you directly on the front line of o...

The fermented foods and fiber-rich crops you grow and eat directly feed the microbial communities...

The fermented foods and fiber-rich vegetables you grow or forage feed the same gut microbial comm...

Same gut bacteria that influence disease in mice are shaped by diet — including the fruits, veget...

Understanding what makes pigs sick after weaning directly affects the pork and animal feed indust...

This particular discovery centers on gut microbiology in livestock rather than plants, so it has ...