{"id":180279,"date":"2024-01-11T13:22:47","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T19:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/how-a-healthy-microbiome-reduces-gut-inflammation"},"modified":"2024-01-11T13:22:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T19:22:47","slug":"how-a-healthy-microbiome-reduces-gut-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/how-a-healthy-microbiome-reduces-gut-inflammation","title":{"rendered":"How a healthy microbiome reduces gut inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-a-healthy-microbiome-reduces-gut-inflammation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The microbiome has a profound influence on our health, but exactly how our resident bacteria wield their power is still unclear. A type of T cell appears to provide some answers for gastrointestinal health, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S1074761323004843\">study<\/a> of the mouse microbiome finds.<\/p>\n<p>The study, appearing in the journal <i>Immunity<\/i>, found that when friendly, commensal microbes set up residence inside the gut, their host produces T cells that maintain the health of the gut by counteracting <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/inflammation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">inflammation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The finding could lead to new treatments for inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The microbiome has a profound influence on our health, but exactly how our resident bacteria wield their power is still unclear. A type of T cell appears to provide some answers for gastrointestinal health, a study of the mouse microbiome finds. The study, appearing in the journal Immunity, found that when friendly, commensal microbes set [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}