inflammation

Food, Fibres, Bacteria and the Brain

April 13, 2016

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(Source: jama.jamanetwork.com) The relationship between the gut and the nervous system—which includes the brain, peripheral, immune and enteric nervous systems—has become a hot area…

Vitamin A and Immune Specificity

October 22, 2015

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Homeostasis — literally ‘standing still’ — describes the mechanisms by which all biological systems maintain stability. In effect this is the position at which…

Low-Grade Inflammation, Diet Composition and Health: Current Research Evidence And Its Translation

August 25, 2015

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The British Journal of Nutrition published a review paper in July 2015, exploring the relationship between inflammation, diet and health. Whilst this is neither…

Apples – Gut Microbiota And Inflammation, Do They Change?

June 30, 2015

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A group studied the effects of apples in a mouse model to determine if there was a positive consequence in the changes related to…

Anti-Inflammatory Treatments for Depression – Do They have Merit?

December 1, 2014

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For some time now, the idea that at least in part, depression is the manifestation of loss of control over defensive inflammation and that…

Perilla Targets Inflammation: Joins Traditional Gut Nutrients as Potent Anti-spasmodic and Anti-inflammatory

November 20, 2014

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The remedies for gastrointestinal complaints are legion and stretch back far in human history. Ancient Chinese physicians prescribed anise for flatulence, while Dioscorides, chief…

SCFAs – A Treatment for Gastrointestinal Inflammation?

January 29, 2014

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As each month goes by the dynamic and intersecting relationships between our gastrointestinal organisms and the food we consume continues to open all sorts…

Avoiding Gluten Hastens Weight Loss

March 11, 2013

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But…. it also appears to offer far more than simply compressing overall body mass. For some time the world of gluten sensitivity as well…

Faecal Transplant (FT) and IBD

September 25, 2012

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I have explored the role of appropriate transplantation in the resolution of MRSA infection that fails to resolve with antibiotic therapy, and have intimated…

Milk Fats Plus Bacteria = Gut Inflammation

July 3, 2012

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It is a global phenomenon – the increase in gastrointestinal inflammatory disease over the last 50 years, so fast is this occurring that genetic…