This post is about GPR109a and the response to LPS. It is a direct full circle to the post called Clinoptilolite that describes a decrease in the tight junction protein ZO-1 in the feces of human endurance atheletes. CLinoptilolite decreases the loss of barrier function. Clinoptilolite cont addresses a metabolomics study demonstrating changes in β-hydroxybutyrate and other metabolites that could be ligands for GPR109a in dairy cows