coffee and ibs

Quick Answer A 2024 Nature Microbiology study of more than 22,000 metagenomes found that coffee drinkers carry far more of one gut bacterium, Lawsonibacter asaccharolyticus, than non-drinkers, and that microbiome data could tell the two groups apart with roughly 0.89 accuracy (AUC) . The coffee gut microbiome signal held up in decaf drinkers too, which…