{"id":225501,"date":"2025-11-20T01:34:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/children-with-autism-adhd-and-anorexia-share-a-common-microbe-imbalance"},"modified":"2025-11-20T01:34:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:34:34","slug":"children-with-autism-adhd-and-anorexia-share-a-common-microbe-imbalance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/children-with-autism-adhd-and-anorexia-share-a-common-microbe-imbalance","title":{"rendered":"Children With Autism, ADHD, And Anorexia Share a Common Microbe Imbalance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/children-with-autism-adhd-and-anorexia-share-a-common-microbe-imbalance.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ratio of two dominant groups of microbes in the human gut was higher across all three disorder groups than was typically seen in the control group.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A new, small study suggests children with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/autism-spectrum-disorder\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">autism<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/what-is-adhd\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">ADHD<\/a>, and anorexia share similarly disrupted gut microbiomes, which, by some measures, have more in common with each other than with their healthy, neurotypical peers.<\/p>\n<p>Led by researchers from Comenius University in Slovakia, the study used stool samples to assess the gut microbiomes of 117 children.<\/p>\n<p>The exploratory study included 30 boys with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/autism-spectrum-disorder\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">autism spectrum disorder<\/a> (ASD), 21 girls with anorexia nervosa, and 14 children with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/what-is-adhd\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">attention deficit hyperactivity disorder<\/a> (ADHD). The remaining samples were from age-and sex-matched healthy and neurotypical children, providing a control group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ratio of two dominant groups of microbes in the human gut was higher across all three disorder groups than was typically seen in the control group. A new, small study suggests children with autism, ADHD, and anorexia share similarly disrupted gut microbiomes, which, by some measures, have more in common with each other than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225501","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=225501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}