Chronic Kidney Disease
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Dr Todd Born ND reviews current understandings of this increasingly common problem. The definition and classification of chronic kidney disease (CKD) guidelines were introduced…
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Here Comes The Sun – How Vitamin D Relaxes Blood Vessels
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It’s not just your mood that the dark months of winter can influence. Low levels of sunlight also mean lower levels of vitamin D…
SCFAs – A Treatment for Gastrointestinal Inflammation?
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Gut Bacteria Trigger Autism
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Our gut microbiota can influence our state of mind, including our mood and behaviour. In the recent issue of Cell, scientists reported that the…
Tocotrienols And Their Many Benefits.
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Prof. Dr Chandan a world expert on the role of tocotrienols and their role in health presented a short presentation in 2013 on the…
Metabolites Produced By Commensal Bacteria Promote Peripheral Regulatory T-Cell Generation
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Over the more recent past a number of strands of evolving discovery indicate that subsets of commensal microbes materially influence the gut and associated…
Think Coeliac Disease
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As Nutritional Therapists we are all aware of the problems linked to gluten exposure, from wheat allergy, non-coeliac gluten sensitivity and coeliac disease, yet…
Microbiota Modulate Behavioral and Physiological Abnormalities Associated with Neurodevelopmental Disorders
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A very exciting paper published in the journal Cell has identified (in an animal model) the ability of commensal bacteria to reverse autistic behaviours,…
