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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 August 15, 2019
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Within just a few weeks of each other, two papers have been published looking at the potential of using helminths to treat neurological conditions. Not surprisingly, both focus on the powerful anti-inflammatory effect of helminths. (For those of you new to helminths: these are…
Category: ALS, Altzheimers, Anxiety and PTSD, autism, Autoimmune Disease, Bacterial Microbiome, depression, Helminthic Therapy, Human Biome, Immune System-Brain Connection, inflammation, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Macrobiome, Mental Health, microbiome, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Schizophrenia, UncategorizedTags: ALS, Alzheimers, anxiety, asd, autism, autoimmune, bacterialmicrobiome, brain, dementia, depression, gutbacteria, health, helminthictherapy, inflammation, inflammatoryboweldisease, Macrobiome, microbes, microbiome, MS, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Schizophrenia
Posted on July 30, 2019
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I’ve decided to start this week with some good news. A few days ago, the headline of a little op-ed sort of piece on a science-devoted website caught my eye: “It’s Time to Highlight Our Fungus Friends in Our Microbiomes.”[i] The author gives a…
Category: Autoimmune Disease, Crohn's, Crohn's Disease, Human Biome, inflammation, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, microbiome, Mycobiome, ProbioticsTags: autoimmune, Crohn's, health, inflammation, inflammatoryboweldisease, microbes, microbiome, Mycobiome, Probiotics
Posted on July 5, 2019
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This morning, I spotted an interesting little piece on Medical Daily entitled, “Bloated? High-Fiber Foods Are Not to Blame; This Ingredient Is.”[i] Curious to see what they were suggesting as a possible culprit (after all, bloating is the second most common complaint I hear…
Category: Autoimmune Disease, Bacterial Microbiome, Diet, Human Biome, microbiome, multiple sclerosis, ProbioticsTags: autoimmune, bacterialmicrobiome, Diet, gutbacteria, health, microbes, microbiome, MS, multiple sclerosis, Probiotics
Posted on June 18, 2019
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An interesting opinion piece by Dr. William Parker, of Duke University, and colleagues at a couple of Czech Universities, just appeared in Trends in Parasitology.[i] To summarize, the paper makes two key points: A. These scientists hold the belief that the interaction between human…
Category: allergy, Anxiety and PTSD, autism, Autoimmune Disease, Crohn's, Crohn's Disease, depression, Diabetes, Helminthic Therapy, Human Biome, inflammation, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Macrobiome, Mental Health, multiple sclerosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Ulcerative ColitisTags: allergy, anxiety, asd, autism, autoimmune, Crohn's, depression, Diabetes, health, helminthictherapy, inflammation, inflammatoryboweldisease, Macrobiome, mentalhealth, MS, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoidarthritis, ulcerativecolitis
Posted on June 13, 2019
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When Harvard University talks, people listen (including me)! So I paid particular attention to a fascinating bit of new research out just this week that definitely takes us a step closer to figure out what happens in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), in terms of …
Category: Autoimmune Disease, Bacterial Microbiome, Crohn's, Crohn's Disease, inflammation, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, microbiome, Ulcerative ColitisTags: autoimmune, bacterialmicrobiome, Crohn's, gutbacteria, health, inflammation, inflammatoryboweldisease, microbes, microbiome, ulcerativecolitis
Posted on May 30, 2019
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A couple of months ago, a friend sent me an article I finally had a chance to read, which describes a double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover study that looked at the effects of eating crickets on health and the gut biome.[i] Now don’t sit there rolling…
Category: antibiotics, Autoimmune Disease, Bacterial Microbiome, Diet, Human Biome, inflammation, microbiome, PrebioticsTags: autoimmune, bacterialmicrobiome, Diet, gutbacteria, health, inflammation, microbes, microbiome, Prebiotics
Posted on May 23, 2019
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Two incredibly cool news stories came out last week and since I can’t decide which to share with you today…I’ll share both. Story 1: As you all know, if you regularly read this blog, the exact cause of the current inflammatory epidemic plaguing those…
Category: Anxiety and PTSD, Autoimmune Disease, Bacterial Microbiome, Diet, Human Biome, inflammation, Mental Health, microbiome, multiple sclerosis, stressTags: anxiety, autoimmune, bacterialmicrobiome, Diet, gutbacteria, health, inflammation, mentalhealth, microbes, microbiome, multiple sclerosis, stress
Posted on May 16, 2019
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A great article appeared last week on Gut Microbiota for Health,[i] on the overlooked mycobiome in digestive diseases. I’ve written about this topic several times before and am always very happy to see new research focused on the topic. The authors of the paper[ii]…
Category: autism, Autoimmune Disease, cancer, Crohn's, Crohn's Disease, Human Biome, inflammation, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Mental Health, microbiome, Mycobiome, Schizophrenia, Spondylitis, Ulcerative ColitisTags: ankylosingspondylitis, autism, autoimmune, cancer, Crohn's, health, ibd, inflammation, inflammatoryboweldisease, mentalhealth, microbes, microbiome, Mycobiome, Schizophrenia, Spondylitis, ulcerativecolitis
Posted on May 9, 2019
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I continue to make my way through the stacks of articles I’ve collected these last few months and decided today to treat myself to a description of a paper from 2015 that used survey data to analyze the effects of the Specific Carbohydrate Diet…
Category: Autoimmune Disease, Bacterial Microbiome, Crohn's, Crohn's Disease, Diet, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, microbiome, Specific Carbohydrate Diet, Ulcerative ColitisTags: autoimmune, bacterialmicrobiome, Crohn's, Diet, gutbacteria, inflammatoryboweldisease, microbes, microbiome, SpecificCarbohydrateDiet, ulcerativecolitis
