Diet, the Gut Microbiome, and Aging

Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2025/10/diet-the-gut-microbiome-and-aging/

Researchers can now accurately measure the composition of the gut microbiome, and how the distribution of different microbial species changes for the worse in association with age and disease. Studies have been conducted to map specific changes in the gut microbiome to specific diseases and outcomes. Another ongoing project is to link these relatively new findings with the established body of work covering the effects of diet on long-term health. Diet evidently has considerable influence over the composition of the gut microbiome, but there is a great deal of room to understand at the detail level how diet, disease, aging, and the gut microbiome interact with one another.

The interplay between diet, gut microbiota, and aging represents a dynamic and modifiable system with profound im…

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