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Food as medicine: How diet shapes gut microbiome health

Food as medicine: How diet shapes gut microbiome health

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Researchers from UChicago show how a typical Western diet prevents the gut microbiome from recovering after antibiotic treatment and leaves it susceptible to infection. May 7, 2025 The modern Western-style diet—high in processed foods, red meat, dairy products, and sugar—alters the composition of the gut microbiome in ways that can have a huge impact on…

Historical use of medicinal plants and future potential from phytotherapy to phytochemicals

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Since the prehistoric times, humans have understood that plants, possessed healing abilities. The knowledge of herbal medicine has been accumulated for millennia by traditional healers and has been passed down from generation to generation. Phytotherapy has been used as the main therapy until the 18th century. Even today, between 40% and 80% of pharmaceuticals are…