Specific Gut Bacteria Metabolize Compounds in Plant-Based Diet to Protect against MS in Mice genengnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from genengnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Combination of dietary isoflavones and metabolizing gut bacteria may protect against MS
A new University of Iowa study suggests that metabolism of plant-based dietary substances by specific gut bacteria, which are lacking in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), may provide protection against the disease.
The study led by Ashutosh Mangalam, PhD, UI associate professor of pathology, shows that a diet rich in isoflavone, a phytoestrogen or plant-based compound that resembles estrogen, protects against multiple sclerosis-like symptoms in a mouse model of the disease. Importantly, the isoflavone diet was only protective when the mice had gut microbes capable of breaking down the isoflavones. The findings were published July 9 in
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