{"id":73677,"date":"2017-11-06T10:43:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T18:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/gut-bacteria-are-important-in-cancer-risk"},"modified":"2017-11-06T10:43:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T18:43:12","slug":"gut-bacteria-are-important-in-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/gut-bacteria-are-important-in-cancer-risk","title":{"rendered":"Gut Bacteria are Important in Cancer Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gut-bacteria-are-important-in-cancer-risk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Changes to the microbiome in the gut may explain why related conditions are linked to different risk levels and types of gastric tumors, according to a new <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plospathogens\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.ppat.1006653\"> study<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>What are the microbiota and microbiome?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The microbiota is an \u201cecological community of commensal, symbiotic and pathogenic microorganisms\u201d found in and on all multicellular organisms. A microbiota includes various bacteria, archaea, protists, fungi, and viruses. The microbiota has been found to be crucial for the immunologic, hormonal and metabolic balance (homeostasis) of its host.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/gut-bacteria-are-important-in-cancer-risk\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/gut-bacteria-are-important-in-cancer-risk\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes to the microbiome in the gut may explain why related conditions are linked to different risk levels and types of gastric tumors, according to a new study. What are the microbiota and microbiome? The microbiota is an \u201cecological community of commensal, symbiotic and pathogenic microorganisms\u201d found in and on all multicellular organisms. A microbiota [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73677","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}