For how we live.
In a company-funded randomised trial, adults who lost weight then took pasteurised Akkermansia muciniphila regained 1.2 kg over 24 weeks versus 3.2 kg on placebo — a modest effect in 90 people.
Colic is intense crying in a healthy, well-fed baby that peaks in the first six weeks and eases by three months. Most remedies do little; the best evidence is modest and mainly for breastfed infants.
The trend treats the gut as a dashboard to be tuned with home tests, probiotics and 'gut-healing' protocols. The one intervention with the broadest evidence is the least sold: fibre.
Two randomised trials in more than 1,800 children found no benefit in acute gastroenteritis. A Cochrane review of 23 trials found fewer upper respiratory infections, on low-certainty evidence.
A 21-trial meta-analysis found effects concentrated in older age groups and largely absent elsewhere. A separate safety review of the most-used strain found no excess adverse events — and a big reporting gap.