{"id":240423,"date":"2026-07-07T11:07:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T16:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/gut-microbiota-can-predict-risk-of-type-2-diabetes-years-before-it-develops"},"modified":"2026-07-07T11:07:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T16:07:51","slug":"gut-microbiota-can-predict-risk-of-type-2-diabetes-years-before-it-develops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/gut-microbiota-can-predict-risk-of-type-2-diabetes-years-before-it-develops","title":{"rendered":"Gut microbiota can predict risk of type 2 diabetes years before it develops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gut-microbiota-can-predict-risk-of-type-2-diabetes-years-before-it-develops2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The presence of certain bacteria in the gut microbiota, and fluctuations in a person\u2019s metabolism, can be seen in people who go on to develop type 2 diabetes years later. This has been shown in a large Swedish study led by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology. The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2666379126002521\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Cell Reports Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery paves the way for identifying people at risk of developing type 2 diabetes at an early stage, enabling preventive measures to be introduced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur study was able to show changes in the gut microbiota several years before the disease developed. This could indicate that the composition of the microbiome plays a role in the development of diabetes, and not the other way around,\u201d says Ga\u00ebl Toubon, a postdoctoral researcher in food science at Chalmers\u2019 Department of Life Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The presence of certain bacteria in the gut microbiota, and fluctuations in a person\u2019s metabolism, can be seen in people who go on to develop type 2 diabetes years later. This has been shown in a large Swedish study led by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology. The study is published in the journal Cell [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240423","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=240423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}