Just Two Days on a High-Fat Diet Can Damage Your Gut, Study Finds

Study shows dairy products are both good and bad for gut health

A Baylor College study reveals that dairy consumption increases beneficial gut bacteria, while cheese reduces other key bacteria.

Just Two Days on a High-Fat Diet Can Damage Your Gut, Study Finds

High-fat diets rapidly deplete IL-22, weakening gut defenses and triggering silent inflammation. Unsaturated fats may help restore IL-22 and protect against chronic disease. A study led by researchers at WEHI in Melbourne, Australia, is the first to reveal the immediate impact of a high-fat diet on gut health. This pre-clinical research showed that just a [...]

A New Study Reveals How High-Fat Meals Can Disrupt Gut Health and Trigger Inflammation in Just 48 Hours

Evidence shows that the gut reacts almost instantly to saturated fats — even without visible signs.Food & Wine / Getty ImagesKey PointsJust two days of high-fat meals caused gut immune cells in mice to stop functioning properly and led to breakdown of the gut lining.The diet reduced levels of IL-22, a protein that helps protect and seal the gut, increasing vulnerability to harmful bacteria and inflammation.These gut changes occurred without visi…

JCI Diet’s impact on gut microbial assemblage in health and disease

The gut microbiome has been linked to everything from human behavior to athletic performance to disease pathogenesis. And yet, few universal truths have emerged regarding how the microbiome exerts its effects or responds to the host environment except for one: gut microbiota are exquisitely sensitive to human diets. What we eat from birth onward shapes our gut microbiome composition and function, and this is likely an evolutionarily conserved in…

Just Two Days of Fatty Food Can Damage Your Gut, New Study Finds

Just two days of high-fat meals caused gut immune cells in mice to stop functioning properly and led to breakdown of the gut lining. The diet reduced levels of IL-22, a protein that helps protect and seal the gut, increasing vulnerability to harmful bacteria and inflammation. These gut changes occurred without visible symptoms like weight gain, suggesting even short-term fatty eating can trigger hidden inflammation. Sometimes, a nice, quick, jui…