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Irritable Bowel: SIBO, Dysbiosis and Diet
In 2010, I read a paper in the journal, Nutrition, that really rocked my world: “The concept of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) in relation to functional gastrointestinal disorders.” [i] To summarize one of its many key points: we don’t know how to test…
Diet, Diet, Diet and the Microbiome…and Did I Mention Diet? (And a Bonus: An Herbal Thing You Can Do Now)
A recent discussion on my Biome Buzz Facebook page, in response to a post about the benefits of boosting Akkermansia muciniphila in the gut, has prompted me to once again write about the single most important thing when it comes to influencing the health…
Autism and Clostridia: Mounting Evidence of a Connection
As you know, I’ve been following the research of Dr. Derrick MacFabe for a good 20 years now. I’ve described it before on this blog, several times, including this first post 2 ½ years ago – to which, if you remember, Dr. MacFabe was…
Cancer, Diet and Gut Bacteria
On Monday, I read a little article on Medical Express about a multi-center research study done in Spain, just published in the journal, Nutrients, which took an in-depth look at the association between diet and the development of both breast and colorectal cancer.[i] Thousands…
Bloated? A Surprising Culprit May Be to Blame
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…
More Steps Forward in Personalized Nutrition
A week ago, I read about another really interesting “personalized nutrition” study[i] again looking at the differences in the way people respond to food. 34 participants kept a record of everything they ate for 17 days, while the researchers looked at stool samples over…
Eat Crickets! Delicious, Nutritious and Great for your Biome, Shows a Clinical Study
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…
Two New Articles on Parkinson’s
Two more recent article provide yet more evidence linking gut inflammation to the development of Parkinson’s disease…which my regular readers know, is another of my particular interests, as I have 3 friends already suffering from it. The first article describes research at the University…
Two Stories Today…For the Price of One! Stressed You and Overfed You = Stressed And Overfed Gut Bacteria
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…
And Yet Another Food Additive Becomes Suspect
Just a couple of weeks ago, I wrote about ways in which modern food processing may be related to our growing epidemic of obesity (or globesity, as those authors called it). In that post, I mentioned that many food additives are potentially thought to …
