If you do not fix your gut problems, no amount of vitamins, minerals or health foods are going to make you well. Here's why: Food sensitivities and digestive issues are the direct result of some level of inflammation at the gut lining. Avoiding food triggers and...
Today’s understanding of the microbiome has profound implications on our entire body and mind. Something astonishing has been happening in medicine that is completely changing how we view health and disease. Today’s understanding of the microscopic life inside our gut—the microbiome—has profound implications for managing not...
The intestinal barrier integrity is essential for the absorption of nutrients and health in humans and animals. Dysfunction of the mucosal barrier is associated with increased gut permeability and development of multiple gastrointestinal diseases. Recent studies highlighted a critical role for glutamine in enhancing intestinal and...
In a study published just last week in Brain, Behavior and Immunity, researchers found that multispecies probiotics have an effect on mood after four weeks of supplementation. [caption id="attachment_3523" align="aligncenter" width="300"] microbes[/caption] Hippocrates stated, “All disease begins in the gut,” and there is more and more evidence...
In one of the largest longitudinal studies of the microbiome to date, researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and the DIABIMMUNE Study Group have identified a connection between changes in gut microbiota and the onset of type 1...