{"id":242770,"date":"2026-08-16T05:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T10:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/gut-bacteria-leave-intestinal-memory-protecting-against-inflammation"},"modified":"2026-08-16T05:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T10:03:17","slug":"gut-bacteria-leave-intestinal-memory-protecting-against-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/gut-bacteria-leave-intestinal-memory-protecting-against-inflammation","title":{"rendered":"Gut bacteria leave intestinal \u2018memory,\u2019 protecting against inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gut-bacteria-leave-intestinal-memory-protecting-against-inflammation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Northwestern Medicine research published in Nature Communications suggests that a metabolite produced by gut bacteria when they digest dietary fiber can leave a lasting molecular imprint on intestinal cells, promoting immune tolerance and protecting against inflammatory bowel disease-like conditions long after exposure ends.<\/p>\n<p>Yingzi Cong, Ph.D., the Stanley Gradowski Professor of Gastroenterology and a professor of Microbiology-Immunology and Pathology, was the senior and co-corresponding author of the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Northwestern Medicine research published in Nature Communications suggests that a metabolite produced by gut bacteria when they digest dietary fiber can leave a lasting molecular imprint on intestinal cells, promoting immune tolerance and protecting against inflammatory bowel disease-like conditions long after exposure ends. Yingzi Cong, Ph.D., the Stanley Gradowski Professor of Gastroenterology and a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242770","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}