Prescription Drugs Obscure Microbiome Analyses
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Recent studies have suggested that gut bacteria play a fundamental role in diseases such as obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Data are accumulating in…
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Antibiotics – Short Term Benefits Offset Against Long Term Risk?
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The growing knowledge in research communities concerning the symbiotic relationship we have with our bacterial organism population is increasingly reflecting that which we have…
The Gut Microbiota in Internal Medicine: Implications for Health and Disease.
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A free to access paper published in the Netherlands Journal of Medicine in Feb 2015 explores the opportunities for health care management by understanding…
Dietary Magnesium Deficiency Alters Gut Microbiota and Leads To Depressive-Like Behaviour
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The relationships between magnesium deficiency and human health are extensive. Whilst this is an animal model the possibility that some of the benefits seen…
Artificial Sweeteners Attack Health Via the Microbiome
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Oh Boy… the journal Nature has this week (9.10.14) identified the insidious effect of consuming ‘diet’ or non caloric sweeteners on the burgeoning mass…
Once Broken; Difficult To Fix Microbiomes Have Long Term Consequences
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The gut microbiomes of young children appear to fail to fully recover from the trauma of early-life malnourishment, even after they are treated with…
Cheap Way To Study Your Microbiome
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I think it is fair to say that I have written a few posts on the evolving nature of the relationships we enjoy with…
Microbes and Us
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Over the past several years, studies have revealed an astonishing diversity in our so-called microbiome. A five year project utilising researchers from around the…
Microbes Are What You Eat
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Most nutritional therapists and others that regard the role of the bacterial populations in the human gut as being a significant part of our…
Gut Flora, Probiotics and Vitamins A+D – Do they influence Allergy and Autoimmunity.
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Michael Ash BSc, DO, ND FDipION The fields of immunology, microbiology, nutrition, epigenetics and metabolism are rapidly converging utilising a systems biology methodology to…