The study, conducted at MU's Roy Blunt NextGen Precision Health Building, identified the western diet-induced microbial and metabolic contributors to liver disease, advancing our understanding of the gut-liver axis and, as a result, the development of dietary and microbial interventions for
A new study from the University of Missouri School of Medicine has found a correlation between high-fat, high-sugar Western diets and the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, the main cause of chronic liver disease.