The ADD Lab

Intestinal Permeability: the Bacterial link to Aging, Brain Barrier Dysfunction & Metabolic Disorder Mounting evidence points to the intersecting roles that intestinal permeability and LPS play in human health. In this episode, Dr. Rhonda Patrick describes how intestinal permeability and LPS influence inflammation, aging, and chronic disease.

High sensitivity of melatonin suppression response to evening light in preschool‐aged children Light at night in adults suppresses melatonin in a nonlinear intensity-dependent manner. In children, bright light of a single intensity before bedtime has a robust melatonin suppressing effect. To o...

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Choline during pregnancy impacts children’s sustained attention Seven-year-old children performed better on a challenging task requiring sustained attention if their mothers consumed twice the recommended amount of choline during their pregnancy, a new study has found.

“Nguyen’s team studied stool samples from 184 people, looking at how many different kinds of gut microbes each person had in their microbiome, which means the ecosystem of tiny organisms and viruses that exist in the gut. The study participants also answered questions from the researchers to measure their feelings of wisdom, compassion, loneliness, social support, and social engagement.

People with the most diverse microbiomes also tended to rate themselves high on the scale for compassion, social support, social engagement, and wisdom. In fact, the degree to which participants’ rated their compassion and wisdom was the greatest predictor of the degree of their microbial diversity.”

Scientists have discovered a link between a problematic emotion and gut health Feeling that no one wants to hang out with you can feel like a kick to the gut, and a study published in March suggests there’s biological truth to your mood.

Exposure to oestrogen linked to less brain shrinkage in midlife women A team of US-based researchers has found an association between indicators of longer estrogen exposure and reduced brain shrinkage in midlife women. The findings are published today in the scientific journal, Neurology.