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Does Fiber Make IBD Worse?
Eat more fiber — patients with irritable bowel disease (IBD) hear it all the time from well-meaning experts. But what if that advice is wrong, ...
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Environmental Pollutants & the Microbiome
In a recently published Frontiers in Medicine review, the bidirectional interactions between environmental toxicants and the gut microbiota were examined, highlighting the complex relationship between ...
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Sugar Changes the Microbiome & Fuels Metabolic Disease
A new mice study in the journal Cell helps explain how a high-sugar, high-fat Western-style diet disrupts the gut microbiome, increasing the risk of metabolic ...
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Oolong Tea Combats Obesity from High-Fat Diets
Can sipping a cup of oolong tea help avert weight gain? Yes, according to a new study in Frontiers in Nutrition. Oolong tea (OT), partially ...
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Bacterial Histamine Linked to Abdominal Pain in IBS
Scientists from McMaster University and Queen’s University, both in Ontario, Canada, have identified a gut bacterial ‘super-producer’ of histamine that can trigger pain flare-ups in ...
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Probiotics Boost Mood in People on Antidepressants
If any of your patients are taking antidepressants, make sure they are also supplementing with probiotics daily. According to a study in Translational Psychiatry, probiotic “add-on” ...
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Probiotics and Gut Microbiome Trigger Emotion and Mood Brain Signatures
Can probiotics alter the gut microbiome to shift emotion and mood brain signatures? The gut microbiota-brain axis plays an important role in gastrointestinal function and ...
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Mood and Microbes, by Jane Foster, PhD
This three-part videos by Jane Foster, PhD, author, professor and leading expert in the microbiome, walks listeners through her research on mood and microbes and ...
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The Immune and Gastrointestinal Benefits of Colostrum
From Top-Notch Athletes to the Critically Ill, this Colostral “First Milk” Provides Nutritional Protection What’s the nutritional superfood almost all of us have had at ...
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Berberine: The Natural Antidote to Metabolic Derangement?
Berberine, an orangish-yellow alkaloid found at high levels in the bark and root structures of many ground-covering shrubs, has an extensive history of use as ...
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