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Tag: inflammation
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…
Yet MORE on Akkermansia, This Time as a Pasteurized Probiotic!
A few weeks back, I shared a post about a recent study that looked at using our old friend, Akkermansia muciniphila (a quick summary of some of the findings re: this probiotic bacteria are in a postscript below) to improve glucose tolerance and insulin levels. …
Antibiotics in Early Childhood: The Road to Asthma and Allergy
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…
More on Helminths and the Prevention of Cancer
Last October, I wrote about a study that looked at the effects on cancer of the immune modulation afforded by helminths (intestinal worms), which are the main component of the mammalian macrobiome. That paper provided a very positive initial review of the mechanisms by…
Constipation, Dysbiosis, Autism and a Prebiotic: A New Clinical Trial
The single most common gastrointestinal (GI) complaint I hear as a nutritionist, by a long way, is constipation…and the single best piece of advice I give my clients is “drink more water.” It never ceases to amaze me how dehydrated most people are. Invariably,…
Fibromyalgia: Yet Another Biome Related Illness
I’ve written before about recent findings that alterations in the gut bacteria are associated with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), which is closely related to fibromyalgia. For those of you unfamiliar, the symptoms of fibromyalgia include wide spread body pain, fatigue, impaired sleep, potentially cognitive…
Helminth Therapy: A Call to Action
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…
Zeroing In On An Inflammatory Bowel Disease Culprit
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 …
Transferring Autism Via Microbiota Transplant: A Clinical Study
In recent years, researchers have found they that by transferring the gut microbiome from animal to animal, they can also transfer particular “disease” states. Take obesity, for instance – just one example of many – researchers transferred the gut microbiota from lean mice fed…
Stressed? Spend Time Outdoors to Get Your Mycobacterium vaccae
For the last couple of years, I’ve followed the research of a team out of the University of Colorado, who have been looking into treating stress and anxiety by using microbiotic organisms, and have even been exploring the idea of creating a vaccine to…
