{"id":1341,"date":"2025-11-21T07:32:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2025-11-21T07:32:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:32:23","slug":"fucoidan-rich-seaweed-extract-enhances-gut-microbial-diversity-and-function-in-healthy-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/fucoidan-rich-seaweed-extract-enhances-gut-microbial-diversity-and-function-in-healthy-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Fucoidan-Rich Seaweed Extract Enhances Gut Microbial Diversity and Function in Healthy Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in healthy adults evaluated a fucoidan-rich extract from Saccharina latissima (SLE-F) for its effects on the gut microbiome. Participants received 125 mg or 500 mg of SLE-F, or placebo, twice daily for four weeks. High-dose SLE-F improved microbial diversity, increased beneficial bacteria such as Bifidobacterium, Faecalibacterium, and Lachnospiraceae, and reduced inflammation-associated taxa like Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonadota. Functional analysis showed enhanced short-chain fatty acid and carbohydrate metabolism pathways, supported by in vitro findings of increased postbiotic production. The extract was well tolerated with only mild, nonspecific adverse events, suggesting SLE-F as a safe and promising microbiome-modulating ingredient for gut health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2076-2607\/13\/7\/1545\">https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2076-2607\/13\/7\/1545<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in healthy adults evaluated a fucoidan-rich extract from Saccharina latissima (SLE-F) for its effects on the gut microbiome. Participants received 125 mg or 500 mg of SLE-F, or placebo, twice daily for four weeks. High-dose SLE-F improved microbial diversity, increased beneficial bacteria such as Bifidobacterium, Faecalibacterium, and Lachnospiraceae, and reduced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snips.nutrifytoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}