IBS
Floré Clinical Teams Up With Evexia Diagnostics
Floré Clinical (San Diego, CA) announced a new distribution agreement with Evexia Diagnostics (Washington, CT) to bring Floré’s personalized microbiome mapping technology, GI SereniT, to Evexia’s 20,000 clinical practitioners. Evexia Diagnostics is a cutting-edge platform that directly links clinicians with the testing, diagnostic panels and health information they need to help patients. Together, the two are expanding access ...
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 ...
For IBS, Specific Diets Are Less Important Than Expected
Many IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) sufferers avoid certain types of food and often exclude gluten. However, a large new study from Chalmers University of Technology and Uppsala University, Sweden, does not show a relationship between high intake of gluten and increased IBS symptoms. The researchers did find that a certain type of carbohydrate called FODMAPs ...
Where the Spirit Meets the Gut
Treating IBS and IBD with ayurvedic strategies. Digestive concerns are often one of the classic reasons that bring patients into our clinics each year. Whether from an auto-immune angle, such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, or for those with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms and non-specific food intolerances, the naturopathic doctor remains one the ...
Vitamin D Supplements Could Ease Painful IBS Symptoms
Vitamin D supplements could help to ease painful irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms, a new study from the University of Sheffield has found. Scientists from the University’s Department of Oncology and Metabolism reviewed and integrated all available research on vitamin D and IBS—a condition that affects two in 10 people in the U.K. The study ...
Anti-inflammatory Diets
By Gene Bruno, MS, MHS, RH(AHG) Huntington College of Health Sciences Nutraceuticals such as curcumin and omega-3 fatty acids are commonly used as anti-inflammatory agents in the treatment of chronic inflammatory disorders such as arthritis, IBS (irritable bowel syndrome), etc. But keep in mind that another effective approach to the treatment of inflammation is diet. ...
Nestlé Health Science Launches LowFODMAPCentral.com
Nestlé Health Science recently announced the launch of LowFODMAPCentral.com, a unique comprehensive online resource offering information and printable guides about FODMAPs and a Low FODMAP Diet. The LowFODMAPCentral.com website has been developed to support both the consumer seeking more information about a Low FODMAP Diet and the health care professional looking to build knowledge and ...
The Many Benefits of Detoxification
Whether we know it or not, whether we like it or not, we take in numerous toxins on a daily basis, according to Holistic Health News, and they can be in the form of household products, cigarette smoke, junk food, pesticides on vegetables, air pollution and a host of other unpleasant elements that we often ...
A Natural Approach To GI Inflammation
Botanicals provide sound solutions for patients’ gastrointestinal issues.The father of modern medicine, Hippocrates, once said, “All disease begins in the gut.” That statement couldn’t be truer today. Scientists refer to the gut as the body’s “second brain” as more than half of the body’s nerve cells are located in the gut. Further, approximately 70 percent ...
An Integrative Approach To Restoring Digestive Health
As Americans’ lifestyles increase the frequency and severity of digestive distress, natural practitioners have the tools to help sufferers restore balance.The American Gastroenterological Association reports that nearly 50 percent of theU. S. population has digestive issues that impact their personal and professional lives.From acid indigestion, reflux and regurgitation; to constipation, Crohn’s disease, diarrhea, irritable bowel ...
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