metabolism
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The gut microbiome includes the vast community of bacteria and other microorganisms that live in the digestive tract and can influence digestion, metabolism, immune function, and other aspects of health.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
More and more, diners are leaning into “proteinmaxxing,” the viral health trend that promotes increased protein intake with the goal of boosting metabolism, decreasing appetite and increasing muscle mass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
AbuSalim, Rabinowitz and their colleagues found that these proteins are processed by gut microbes and can alter both the makeup of the microbiome and the host's metabolism.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
People carrying more weight tended to show greater changes in genes involved in fat metabolism, while leaner volunteers showed stronger effects on inflammation.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
Freezing a cell was like pressing a pause button: cell division, metabolism, and everything else simply stopped, then resumed after thawing as if you’d just pressed play again.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
The higher temperatures promote algae growth by allowing their metabolisms to shift into overdrive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
Additionally, they discovered diverse viral communities and uncovered 13 types of AMGs that help regulate the metabolisms of their host.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024
"Considering that the vast majority of reductases encoded by gut bacteria remain functionally uncharacterized, identified metabolisms may only scratch the surface of interactions between respiratory reductases and the gut metabolome," the study authors wrote.
From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2024
Most of the microbes living in the gut use fermentation, but there are also several known types of bacteria with respiratory metabolisms, including those that use carbon dioxide and sulfate electron acceptors.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 2024
We really can't blame the crocodiles for their metabolisms.
From The Forest Monster of Oz by Bob Evans
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