Category: Asthma and Genetics
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How the microbiome affects asthma: new insights from a Spanish study
The World Asthma Foundation (WAF). WAF is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of people with asthma through education, research, and advocacy. In this blog post, I want to share with you some exciting findings from a recent study on the microbiome and asthma, published by Spanish researchers in the journal Nutrients. The…
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Gut Health and Asthma
The gut and lungs are anatomically distinct, but potential anatomic communications and complex pathways involving their respective microbiota have reinforced the existence of a gut–lung axis (GLA). Compared to the better-studied gut microbiota, the lung microbiota, only considered in recent years, represents a more discreet part of the whole microbiota associated to human hosts. Gut…