No doubt you have heard that yogurt is teeming with bacteria–and no doubt you try not to think about that as you dig into a cup of the stuff. Yes, they’re supposed to be good bacteria, ones that not ...

Probiotics, or "good bacteria," can do a lot to keep you healthy. "Today" food editor Phil Lempert shares the skinny, plus a list of products that can help. The term probiotic literally means “for ...

Although we usually think about the brain when we think about mood, a lot of our feel-good chemicals (including a fair amount of serotonin) are produced in the gut — a phenomenon known as the ...

ANALYSES of hydrolysates of cell walls from a large number of different Gram-positive bacteria led to the suggestion that the chemical composition of bacterial cell walls may be a valuable taxonomic ...

The first time many of us became aware of probiotics were courtesy of Jamie Lee Curtis's Activia ads. I don't think they even mentioned the word probiotic at first — just the mildly exotic sounding ...