Researchers Recommend MedDiet to Restore Gut Bacteria

A team at Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom are working to advance research on the Mediterranean diet and other healthy diets that promote healthy gut bacteria.

Individuals who consume a typical Mediterranean diet are less prone to anomalies in gastrointestinal microbiota, a growing body of evidence suggests.

Now, researchers at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), in the United Kingdom, are working to add to this collective knowledge. Haleh Moravej, a senior lecturer in nutritional science at MMU, and a team of students at the university have launched the MetMUnch initiative in order to do so.

Olive oil as part of a healthy, varied and fresh Mediterranean diet and as part of a healthy lifestyle will always be beneficial for physical and mental health.– Haleh Moravej, senior lecturer in nutritional science at MMU

“Scientists have known for a long time that there is a connection between our gut and brain via nerves, but now we have gut bacteria entering the arena,” Moravej told Olive Oil Times.

“They communicate with the brain in three different ways,” she added, “They send signals up the vagus nerve directly to the brain, influence immune cells in the gut that produce chemicals that travel in the blood, and some can get through the blood-brain barrier to the brain.”

Moravej based the initiative on the principle that microbiota in the…

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