Media Highlights

Welcome to the Media Highlights of The Gut Biome Lab!

Here, we showcase featured articles, news stories, and media appearances that spotlight our lab’s research, achievements, and impact in the fields of microbiome science, nutrition, and health. Explore how our work is making headlines and contributing to public dialogue beyond the lab bench!


Eat Almonds to Support a Healthy Gut

It is an extra special pleasure being featured in this news article highlighting the health benefits of almonds (and prudent dietary choices in general), not just because this is based on our Gut Biome Lab's own research but notably because I am co-featured here with my most favorite, forever inspirational, and iconic Professor Jack Gilbert. About 15 yrs ago, inspired by his book "Dirt Is Good" and his benchmark Earth Microbiome Project. This article feels like a full circle and I feel so proud to be able to be working alongside and along the same lines as of my role model scientist because of whom I actually aspired and ventured to dive into the world of microbiome at first place.
Chronic inflammation messes with your mind. Here's how to calm it

Pleasure to be featured in this timely article in the leading science magazine NewScientist discussing the role of chronic inflammation and the gut-brain axis in neurocognitive health and disorders.

Dr Ravinder Nagpal of Florida State University On What Gut Health Is, Why It’s So Important And How To Optimize It

Pleasure to be featured and interviewed by the Authority magazine - a leading publication that features people who are authorities in wellness, technology, business, culture, and social impact. Happy to represent the viewpoints and philosophies of our Gut Biome Lab and deliberate our perspectives on the role of microbiome in gut health based on what we've learnt from our research.

Preventing obesity with an immune altering gut microbe

Dr. Nagpal spoke to Drug Discovery News about the role of the gut microbiome in human health. Explore how the gut microbiome impacts health. Learn about a new study that reveals how a specific microbe, P. faecium, may help fight obesity.

There's a secret superfood in white rice and pasta: Here's how to unlock it

Pleasure to feature in this amicable and candid interview with the NPR [National Public Radio] this morning, conversing about the role of resistant starches and dietary fiber in our microbiome and gut health!

IDSA "Best of the IDSA Journals 2024"

Exciting news! ? Our recent paper on enteric pathobiome and Alzheimer’s neuropathogenesis has been selected as one of the ‘Best of the IDSA Journals 2024’ papers?

 FLORIDA WEEKLY "Eating the rainbow"

Pleasure to feature in this interview with the FLORIDA WEEKLY Newspaper (Naples Edition), one of the largest circulating newsweeklies in the state, to shed light on the role of the pescatarian diet, seafood, omega-3's, fiber, and more in context to healthy dietary patterns, nutrition, and wellbeing!