Gut microbiome manipulation reduces ALS, frontotemporal dementia symptoms

A team from Harvard and the Broad Institute uncovered a link between intestinal bacteria and a pair of neurological diseases associated with pathological DNA repeats, strengthening the connection between the gut microbiome and neurological diseases.

The study adds DNA repeat-associated frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to the growing list of neurological disorders associated with the microbial side of the gut-brain axis...