If certain gut bacteria promote good health, it makes sense to eat a diet rich in the nutrients that make those microbes happy.

It turns out that our gut bacteria manipulate the immune system to keep things from getting out of hand.

I had the chance to sit down with Carl and ask him about life, gut bacteria, and the public's relationship with science.

I know for gut bacteria, you largely get the myriad species that your mother had.

C. scolymus also seems to have a bifidogenic effect on beneficial gut bacteria.

Antibiotics seem to reduce immune system activity as a result of killing off the normal gut bacteria.

So, they tend to do a whole lot of sitting around sleeping, letting gut bacteria break down their leafy meals.

The protective factor, a gut bacterium, was transmissible, he said.

Blaser's point is that if one species of gut bacteria is disappearing, others are, too.

The gut bacteria make vitamin K and are killed by antibiotics.