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COVID-19 and Probiotics: A (Successful) Clinical Study
With the COVID crisis continuing to rage on, I have been keeping an eye out for anything we can all do now. Last week I wrote a post about the potential protective mechanisms afforded by helminths. Today I’m covering a recent clinical trial using…
ALS and the Microbiome: Yet Another Potential Connection
Earlier this year, another study was published showing alterations in the gut microbiomes of patients with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis).[i] And,yet again, it shows an imbalance in the ratio of protective microbial species to pro-inflammatory ones. The study included 50 ALS patients ranging in…
Helminths in the Time of COVID: A Protective Action?
As soon as I first read about the recognition by physicians that that death from COVID-19 was often caused by a cytokine storm – a massive inflammatory response to an invader, which causes major tissue damage – my first thought was, “I wonder if…