{"id":226708,"date":"2025-12-08T09:05:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/microbial-molecule-that-disarms-inflammation-discovered-offering-new-diabetes-treatment-strategy"},"modified":"2025-12-08T09:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:05:06","slug":"microbial-molecule-that-disarms-inflammation-discovered-offering-new-diabetes-treatment-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/microbial-molecule-that-disarms-inflammation-discovered-offering-new-diabetes-treatment-strategy","title":{"rendered":"Microbial molecule that disarms inflammation discovered, offering new diabetes treatment strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microbial-molecule-that-disarms-inflammation-discovered-offering-new-diabetes-treatment-strategy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international research team has uncovered a surprising ally in the fight against insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes: a microbial metabolite called trimethylamine (TMA). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s42255-025-01413-8\" target=\"_blank\">Published<\/a> in <i>Nature Metabolism<\/i>, the study reveals that TMA, produced by gut bacteria from dietary choline, can block a key immune pathway and improve blood sugar control.<\/p>\n<p>The study was led by Professor Marc-Emmanuel Dumas at Imperial College London &amp; CNRS together with Prof. Patrice Cani (Imperial &amp; University of Louvain, UCLouvain), Dr. Dominique Gauguier (Imperial &amp; INSERM, Paris) and Prof. Peter Liu (University of Ottawa Heart Institute).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international research team has uncovered a surprising ally in the fight against insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes: a microbial metabolite called trimethylamine (TMA). Published in Nature Metabolism, the study reveals that TMA, produced by gut bacteria from dietary choline, can block a key immune pathway and improve blood sugar control. The study was [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226708","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=226708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}