According to Science and Technology Daily, a latest research result published in Nature-Chemistry shows that "eating soil" can also regulate the intestinal microbiome and treat enteritis .
Of course, the "soil" mentioned here is not a handful of soil on the roadside or in the fields, but a soil bionic material that is artificially synthesized by by using three components: montmorillonite , starch granules, and liquid metal .
Among them, montmorillonite is the component of natural soil, commonly known as " Guanyin soil " - people once ate this thing during famine in ancient times, but it is indigested.
According to reports, , a soil biomimetic material, has the characteristics of regulating the function of microbial . It can not only improve the efficiency of microbial synthesis chemicals, but also regulate intestinal microbial disorders and restore intestinal microecology. It has great application potential in the fields of biomanufacturing and biomedical .
research team established a mouse model of intestinal microbial disorders. After the soil bionic material was eaten, the intestinal microbial bacterial flora was restored and the ecological model was reestablished.
In addition, this material can also be used to treat acute enteritis induced by sodium dextran sulfate.
It is worth mentioning that the result of was completed by University of Chicago . Professor Tian Bozhi is the corresponding author of , Lin Yiliang is the first author and co-corresponding author, and Gao Xiang, associate researcher at the Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, is the co-first author.
