{"id":238809,"date":"2026-06-12T03:25:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/gut-microbes-unlock-hormone-signaling-that-regulates-gut-movement-study-suggests"},"modified":"2026-06-12T03:25:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:25:47","slug":"gut-microbes-unlock-hormone-signaling-that-regulates-gut-movement-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/gut-microbes-unlock-hormone-signaling-that-regulates-gut-movement-study-suggests","title":{"rendered":"Gut microbes unlock hormone signaling that regulates gut movement, study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gut-microbes-unlock-hormone-signaling-that-regulates-gut-movement-study-suggests2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Millions of people worldwide are periodically or chronically affected by gut-related conditions, such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and gastroenteritis. Uncovering the physiological and biological processes that contribute to gut health could thus be highly valuable, as it might help devise more effective interventions to prevent and treat these ailments.<\/p>\n<p>The transit of food, fluids and waste through the intestine is known to be coordinated by various interacting systems in the body, including gut wall muscles, neurons in the gastrointestinal tract and hormones. A growing body of research has also been exploring the crucial contribution of bacteria and other microorganisms residing in the digestive tract, which are collectively referred to as the gut microbiome.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Laval University recently carried out a study aimed at better understanding how these gut microbes interact with specific sex hormones and nerve cells that control the movement of muscles in the intestines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of people worldwide are periodically or chronically affected by gut-related conditions, such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and gastroenteritis. Uncovering the physiological and biological processes that contribute to gut health could thus be highly valuable, as it might help devise more effective interventions to prevent and treat these ailments. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1495,47,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-health","category-neuroscience","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238809","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}