For millennia, humans have had an unwritten trade deal with the microbes that inhabit our guts. We feed them fiber, and they ...

Nearly all of the children in the study -- 94% -- experienced a drop in consciousness, 95% had dangerously low blood sugar, ...

Gut microbes that were thought to feed exclusively on dietary fiber also get fed sugar from our guts, from which they produce ...

Gut microbes that were thought to feed exclusively on dietary fiber also get fed sugar from our guts, from which they produce ...

The intake of added sugars, such as from table sugar (sucrose) and high-fructose corn syrup has increased dramatically in the last hundred years and correlates closely with the rise in obesity ...

Some companies claim that taking beneficial bacteria can reduce the desire for sugar. But the evidence comes from mice, not people.

Researchers found that apple peels from local and commercial varieties are rich in phenolic compounds with antioxidant and ...

The sugar-phosphate backbone forms the structural framework of nucleic acids, including DNA and RNA. This backbone is composed of alternating sugar and phosphate groups, and defines directionality ...

Researchers are conducting studies to help understand how diabetes drugs affect glucose excretion, the gut microbiome, and their metabolic products.

Richard J. Johnson; Takahiko Nakagawa; L. Gabriela Sanchez-Lozada; Mohamed Shafiu; Shikha Sundaram; Myphuong Le; Takuji Ishimoto; Yuri Y. Sautin; Miguel A. Lanaspa ...