How to Use microbiota in a Sentence

microbiota

noun
  • Your navel also has microbiota, just like the rest of your skin.
    — Sarah Leupen, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The time of day when people eat also can throw microbiota off-kilter.
    — Larry M. Greenberg, WSJ, 27 Feb. 2017
  • Why go through all this again, the hideous miracle of the human microbiota?
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 19 May 2020
  • Many researchers now argue skin odor and microbiota matter even more than blood type.
    — Ryan Brennan may 1, Sacbee.com, 1 May 2026
  • Between one to ten percent of the mass and half the cells in animals are microbiota.
    — Jason Pontin, WIRED, 15 June 2018
  • There’s growing evidence of a link between the brain and our microbiota as well.
    — Jasenka Zubcevic and Christopher Martyniuk, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2017
  • As participants ate and drank their way through the three days, researchers kept close tabs on their oral and gut microbiota.
    — Sarah Garone, Health, 4 Feb. 2025
  • In other words, their gut microbiota could simply be a byproduct of their lifestyle.
    — Patrick Wilson, Outside Online, 11 Sep. 2020
  • The gut is packed with microbiota that either need to be fed to grow and strengthen, or need to be deprived in order to weaken.
    — Pamela Nisevich Bede, Outside Online, 26 Mar. 2020
  • And the skin, gut and tongue microbiota were all more alike among family members compared to outsiders.
    — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The differences between their gut microbiotas were clear-cut.
    — Ewen Callaway, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Research has found that berberine may improve unhealthy gut microbiota.
    — Karen Berger, Pharmd, Verywell Health, 11 Apr. 2025
  • At this point, this non-digested food mass will be bombarded by our intestinal microbiota.
    — Anthony Martin, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2016
  • Researchers are testing fecal microbiota transplants as a way of changing the gut’s microbes.
    — Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • For instance, one of the key functions of the skin microbiota, which are mostly bacteria, is acid resistance.
    — Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Navedo and his students cast cannon nets over the birds and catch 30 to 40 of them at a time to sample their gut microbiota.
    — Jim Robbins, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
  • These bacteria were absent or present at very low levels in the microbiotas of nearly all c-section babies after birth.
    — Ewen Callaway, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Probiotics are live microorganisms that can help improve or restore your gut microbiota.
    — Emmanuella Ogbonna, Health, 5 June 2026
  • The gut microbiota is made up of trillions of microbes that play a role in digestion, immunity, and overall health.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Iron in the water adhered to the trapped, rotting microbiota, hardening the structure.
    — Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 24 Apr. 2014
  • Parents interested in caring for their child's gut microbiota for weight management or overall health can look to whole food sources.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 7 Sep. 2020
  • Studies show that the microbiota of obese people differs from that of lean individuals.
    — Robert J. Davis, Time, 24 Sep. 2021
  • As for the effects of microbiota on exercise capacity, most of that evidence comes from mice.
    — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
  • The researchers found that microbiota were at least partially restored, but the study only involved four babies, and there wasn’t any long term follow-up.
    — Kate Morgan, The Cut, 15 May 2018
  • Today, scientists have a clearer picture of how and why fecal microbiota transplants work.
    — Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Gut microbiota composition varies from person to person and can change in response to lifestyle factors.
    — Iris Kulbatski, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2021
  • The activity and makeup of these microorganisms are called the microbiota, which can affect human health.
    — Karen Berger, Pharmd, Verywell Health, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Stevia does not appear to promote unfavorable shifts in gut microbiota in humans.
    — Verywell Health, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The activity and makeup of these microorganisms are called the microbiota, which can affect human health.
    — Karen Berger, Verywell Health, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Different gut microbiota pull different amounts of calories from the same food in different people.
    — David Prologo, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2018

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