{"id":872746,"date":"2025-09-14T00:11:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T05:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/14\/40-year-medical-mystery-solved-why-smoking-helps-ulcerative-colitis\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T00:11:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T05:11:55","slug":"40-year-medical-mystery-solved-why-smoking-helps-ulcerative-colitis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/14\/40-year-medical-mystery-solved-why-smoking-helps-ulcerative-colitis\/","title":{"rendered":"40-Year Medical Mystery Solved: Why Smoking Helps Ulcerative Colitis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Smoking helps oral bacteria settle in the gut, protecting against colitis but not Crohn\u2019s disease. This mechanism could inspire safer treatments. A research team led by Hiroshi Ohno at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) in Japan has uncovered why smoking tobacco appears to ease symptoms in people with ulcerative colitis&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/40-year-medical-mystery-solved-why-smoking-helps-ulcerative-colitis\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>RIKEN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Smoking helps oral bacteria settle in the gut, protecting against colitis but not Crohn\u2019s disease. This mechanism could inspire safer treatments. A research team led by Hiroshi Ohno at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) in Japan has uncovered why smoking tobacco appears to ease symptoms in people with ulcerative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":872747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22661,3850,536],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-872746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-year","8":"category-medical","9":"category-science-nature"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}