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Tag: inflammation
A Quick Update on the Mycobiome and Inflammatory Bowel Disease
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]…
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 …
The Microbiome and Mental Illness: An Old Story that is Too Far From its Happy Ending
I just finished reading an article from 2018 on mental health and the microbiome that describes some of where we are now, knowledge-wise, and where we need to be before psychobiotics become a treatment norm.[i] There were multiple pieces of information in it which…
Food Processing: Another Suspect in the ‘Globesity’ Epidemic?
Last night, I read an article that fit absolutely perfectly into my unintentional but prominent theme of the last couple of weeks: the relationship of the microbiome to weight issues…and to food: “Food Processing, Gut Microbiota and the Globesity Problem.”[i] Yup – we face…
Anorexia: Yet Another Microbiome Induced Autoimmune Illness?
I’ve written a fair amount lately about the association of obesity to bacterial microbiome alterations, but have thus far, only had the chance to write a few times about the relationship of dysbiosis to anorexia nervosa (AN). In my frenzy of reading these last…
Spondylitis and Microbiome Dysbiosis: Both Bacterial and Fungal
So many interesting things to write about…so little time! Last October, I wrote a post about spondyloarthropothies, which is a family of autoimmune diseases that affect the spine. These include Ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, arthritis related to inflammatory bowel disease, reactive arthritis, and juvenile…
Nutritional Treatments and Autism: Too Little Research but…Here’s Some of What We Currently Know
Well – I am feeling somewhat overwhelmed! A brief internet search yesterday morning, in which I was looking for new and interesting research, led me to 10 papers that I want to read and write about for you. Considering that it takes quite a…
Biome Bliss: An Interesting New Prebiotic Supplement
A week ago or so, I got an email from a company that makes a really interesting prebiotic product. They offered to let me try it out on myself, and after looking through their website, I readily agreed. (I took my first dose this…
Introducing Archaea: Another Important Member of Your Inner Ecosystem
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…
High Fructose Corn Syrup and the Growth of Colorectal Tumors
Today’s post is a little off topic but I can’t not share this research[i] with you, especially considering the post I wrote a few weeks back about “lysogenic” bacteria. If you remember, it was about those types of bacteria that carry dormant viral DNA…
