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Posted on December 10, 2019
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It isn’t often that I find new research on helminths and equally rare to find one on the interactions of the various species of resident in the gut, so I was particularly pleased to find an actual human clinical study looking at how the…
Category: allergy, asthma, Autoimmune Disease, Bacterial Microbiome, Helminthic Therapy, Human Biome, inflammation, Macrobiome, microbiomeTags: allergy, asthma, autoimmune, bacterialmicrobiome, gutbacteria, health, helminthictherapy, inflammation, Macrobiome, microbes, microbiome
Posted on September 5, 2019
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Back in May, 2018, I wrote about Bacteriodes fragilis (B. fragilis), a species of bacteria some strains of which are toxic, some of which are highly beneficial. The main thrust of that post was about how our immune system, when functioning properly, can recognize…
Category: allergy, Altzheimers, antibiotics, asthma, autism, Autoimmune Disease, Bacterial Microbiome, cancer, Crohn's, Crohn's Disease, Human Biome, Immune System-Brain Connection, inflammation, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Mental Health, microbiome, multiple sclerosis, Probiotics, Ulcerative ColitisTags: Alzheimers, antibiotics, asd, asthma, autism, autoimmune, bacterialmicrobiome, brain, cancer, Crohn's, gutbacteria, health, ibd, inflammation, inflammatoryboweldisease, leakygut, microbes, microbiome, multiple sclerosis, Probiotics, ulcerativecolitis
Posted on July 25, 2019
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Two weeks ago, I wrote about a retrospective study out of Loyola University in which researchers looked at the relationship of the early introduction of antibiotics to the development of allergy and asthma. If you recall, they found, “Exposure to these medicines in their…
Category: allergy, asthma, Bacterial Microbiome, inflammation, microbiomeTags: allergy, asthma, babies, bacterialmicrobiome, children, gutbacteria, health, infants, inflammation, microbes, microbiome
Posted on July 11, 2019
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When my son was just 36 hours old, he was re-hospitalized with a fever and put onto 5 days of IV antibiotics. (You can read more about his history here.) He was given more oral antibiotics right before his first birthday. Once I learned…
Category: allergy, antibiotics, asthma, Bacterial Microbiome, Human Biome, inflammation, microbiomeTags: allergy, antibiotics, asthma, babies, bacterialmicrobiome, children, gutbacteria, health, infants, inflammation, microbes, microbiome
Posted on April 2, 2019
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It’s not often that I get to write about the more esoteric members of our gut biomes. Our bacteria get the most hype in the scientific literature, but as you all know, there are many other kinds of residents of our inner ecosystems. I…
Category: anorexia, Archaea, asthma, Autoimmune Disease, Crohn's, Crohn's Disease, Eating Disorders, Human Biome, inflammation, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, microbiome, obesity, Ulcerative ColitisTags: anorexia, Archaea, asthma, autoimmune, children, Crohn's, eatingdisorders, health, ibd, inflammation, inflammatoryboweldisease, Irritablebowelsyndrome, microbiome, obesity, ulcerativecolitis
Posted on March 19, 2019
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Dr. William Parker of Duke University Medical School, an eminent researcher into the effects of helminths on the immune system among other specialties, wrote a commentary in 2014 in the British Medical Journal entitled, The “hygiene hypothesis” for allergic disease is a misnomer.[i] His…
Category: allergy, asthma, Autoimmune Disease, Bacterial Microbiome, Human Biome, inflammation, microbiomeTags: allergy, asthma, autoimmune, babies, bacterialmicrobiome, children, gutbacteria, health, hygienehypothesis, inflammation, microbes, microbiome
Posted on January 24, 2019
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Earlier this week, I wrote about a couple of new articles in the lay press about helminths. When I posted this on Facebook, one of my readers commented that it reminded her of a blog post from this past November, about how the loss…
Category: allergy, Altzheimers, antibiotics, Anxiety and PTSD, asthma, autism, Autoimmune Disease, Bacterial Microbiome, Breast Feeding, Crohn's, Crohn's Disease, depression, Diabetes, Diet, Human Biome, inflammation, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Mental Health, Metabolic Syndrome, microbiome, obesity, Prebiotics, Probiotics, Ulcerative ColitisTags: Alzheimers, antibiotics, anxiety, asd, asthma, autism, autoimmune, bacterialmicrobiome, brain, breastfeeding, Crohn's, depression, Diabetes, Diet, fiber, gutbacteria, health, inflammation, inflammatoryboweldisease, mentalhealth, metabolicsyndrome, microbes, microbiome, obesity, Prebiotics, Probiotics, ulcerativecolitis
Posted on January 22, 2019
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A couple of articles about helminths have appeared recently in the lay press that struck me for various reasons. While it’s always great to see helminth therapy getting good press, unfortunately, there tends to be misinformation printed that can often do more harm than…
Category: allergy, asthma, Autoimmune Disease, Helminthic Therapy, Human Biome, inflammation, Macrobiome, UncategorizedTags: allergy, asthma, autoimmune, health, helminthictherapy, immunesystem, Macrobiome
Posted on December 18, 2018
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Yet another article[i] was just published showing that dealing with inflammation issues while a baby is still in the womb can make a huge difference on the risk of atopic (allergic) illnesses. In this case, researchers in New Zealand gave 474 pregnant (starting at…
Category: allergy, Bacterial Microbiome, Human Biome, inflammation, microbiome, Prebiotics, Pregnancy, ProbioticsTags: allergy, asthma, babies, bacterialmicrobiome, children, eczema, gutbacteria, health, inflammation, microbes, microbiome, Prebiotics, Pregnancy, Probiotics
Posted on November 22, 2018
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While I’m on the subject of butyrate… An article[i] was published in the International Journal of Pharmaceutics that caught my attention. Researchers tested the efficacy of a probiotic (one I had never heard of) called, Symprove . One of the big issues often raised about…
Category: asthma, Autoimmune Disease, Bacterial Microbiome, Human Biome, inflammation, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, microbiome, Probiotics, Ulcerative ColitisTags: asthma, bacterialmicrobiome, butyrate, gutbacteria, health, inflammation, inflammatoryboweldisease, Irritablebowelsyndrome, microbes, microbiome, Probiotics, SCFA, shortchainfattyacids, ulcerativecolitis
