gut
Addressing Digestive Distress
Helping your patients to support GI function can help improve their daily quality of life and boost health. A disturbed gut can close the doors on fun, relaxation or work progress. Anything from constipation and bloat to acid reflux will kill the current mood. When a GI (gastrointestinal) off-kilter moment happens, it’s nothing to consult ...
Microplastics Go From the Gut to Other Organs
It’s happening every day. From our water, our food and even the air we breathe, tiny plastic particles are finding their way into many parts of our body. But what happens once those particles are inside? What do they do to our digestive system? In a recent paper published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, University ...
Keeping an Eye on Gut Health
Most health practitioners are familiar with the gut’s connection to many other organ systems in the body—the immune system, the brain, the skin and the cardiovascular system. Recent research has elucidated another surprising, yet important connection that extends from the digestive system to the windows of the soul—the eyes. This connection is known as the ...
New Gut-Brain Circuits Found for Sugar and Fat Cravings
Understanding why we overeat unhealthy foods has been a long-standing mystery. While we know food’s strong power influences our choices, the precise circuitry in our brains behind this is unclear. The vagus nerve sends internal sensory information from the gut to the brain about the nutritional value of food. But, the molecular basis of the ...
How Prebiotics Can Affect the Gut and Brain
Prebiotics are used to foster the colonization of beneficial bacteria in the gut. These indigestible dietary fibers are found in plant-derived foods such as onions, leeks, artichokes, wheat, bananas, and in high concentrations in chicory root. They support gut health by promoting the growth and activity of beneficial gut bacteria. Researchers have now investigated whether ...
Why Can’t I Lose Weight (or keep it off)? A Naturopathic/Vitalistic Guide
Weight, and efforts to lose weight, have become an epidemic over the past many decades, as the once simple advice of “diet and exercise” or “try this diet or cleanse for a few weeks” have failed to wholly stop this trend. Even if their routine now seems more than adequate, weight and, commonly together, its ...
Fiber Discovery Could Shape Better Gut Health
Changing the structure of a dietary fiber commonly found in a range of food products has been found to promote healthy gut bacteria and reduce gas formation, a finding that could help people with intolerances to fiber and irritable bowel conditions. A team of scientists from the University of Nottingham, Quadram Institute Biosciences and the ...
Snacking on Almonds Boosts Gut Health, Study Finds
Eating a handful of almonds a day significantly increases the production of butyrate, a short-chain fatty acid that promotes gut health. A team of researchers from King’s College London (U.K.) investigated the impact of whole and ground almonds on the composition of gut microbes. The study was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The ...
Cravings For Fatty Foods Traced To Gut-Brain Connection
A dieter wrestling with cravings for fatty foods might be tempted to blame their tongue: the delicious taste of butter or ice cream is hard to resist. But new research investigating the source of our appetites has uncovered an entirely new connection between the gut and the brain that drives our desire for fat. At ...
A Single Course of Antibiotics Affects the Gut Microbiota of Infants
A study recently completed at the University of Helsinki (Finland) revealed that the fungal microbiota in the gut is more abundant and diverse in children treated with antibiotics compared with the control group even six weeks following the start of the antibiotic course. In light of the findings, a reduction in the number of gut ...
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