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IBS Relief: Could a Combined Low-FODMAP and Gluten-Free Approach Be the Solution?

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a functional gastrointestinal condition characterised by persistent abdominal discomfort, bloating, and irregular bowel habits. Affecting around 10–15% of the global population, IBS presents notable challenges for both patients and healthcare providers due to its multifaceted origins and the lack of a definitive cure. Dietary interventions have become a cornerstone in managing IBS symptoms, with the Low-FODMAP and gluten-free diets gaining substantial attention...

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Immunity and Metabolism

In this week (22.5.24) Diabetes UK announced that there are now almost 168,000 people aged under 40 years in the UK who live with type 2 diabetes, an increase of more than 47,000 since 2016-17. Diagnoses up 39% in 6 years, with the condition fuelled by obesity, health inequalities and junk food – meaning ultra processed food. According to the report, the total cost associated with diabetes in the UK currently stands at £23.7 billion and is predicted to rise to £39.8 billion by 2035/6. To put this...

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Gastro Updates

It’s the very nature of the type of clinical care that practitioners who use nutrition as a key mechanism of clinical care that the gastrointestinal tract becomes central to interventional strategy. Whilst the gut is not always front and centre there is an inevitable engagement and understanding that all that is, or may be happening, in these remarkable tissues is an ongoing quest. One area that those involved in the care of people with inflammatory bowel conditions have long recognised is that psychological...

Immune Health Food Diets Sleep

The ‘cross talk’ between sleep, nutrition, and immunity

Sleep affects various immune parameters, and is associated with reduced infection risk and can improve infection outcome, autoimmunity, and vaccination responses[1]. Adequate nutrition is an essential factor that also supports the immune system[2]. Not only as it provides fuel for rapidly metabolising immune cells, but also many micronutrients operate as regulators of the immune system, including the generation of cytokines, antibodies, and many immune-active proteins and metabolites. Many modifiable...

Food Cardiovascular Health Vitamins Diets

Enzymes and Lipids – a Healthy Vasculature Can Make

It was over 2,000 years ago that the Japanese population made natto a staple of their diet. Natto is a cheese-like food composed of soybeans fermented with a bacterium – Bacillus subtillis. Recognised for its beneficial cardiovascular effects, it has been extensively studied[1]. Relatively little was known regarding the mechanism by which natto intake led to an overall improvement in cardiovascular health until the 1980s. A potent fibrinolytic enzyme called nattokinase was discovered in natto in...

Immune Health Mental Health Food

A Zen moment for Immunity

A koan (a Zen Buddhist derived a paradoxical anecdote or riddle without a solution) for pandemic times: ‘If a microbe silently and inconsequentially copies itself in a tissue, and the body doesn’t notice, did it actually infect?’ Note, the role of the koan is not to lead us to enlightenment, but on the contrary to make us lose our way and drive us to despair. Perhaps you have experienced some of these emotions since March 2020? As many have learned regarding infectious agents, the variation...

Immune Health Food Diets

NCDs And Their Relationship to Our Environment

As circumstances have demanded, the attention of our health-related recommendations over the last few months has been on the role of lifestyle and environmental impacts on immunity and the ability to resist or respond to viral infections, especially Sars-Cov-2. The focus, prior to Covid-19 was on non-communicable diseases and the related slower, but equally damaging effects on human health and wellbeing. Whilst infectious risks have obviously been highlighted, at present, one of the most significant...

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Immunosenescence and how to manage it

Feeling old? Consider the redwoods in the USA. Reaching heights of more than 350 feet, the world’s tallest trees have been on this planet since the days of the dinosaurs. A single specimen can live more than 2,000 years. That’s old enough to make it through from the Roman Empire to the British Empire and an assortment of presidents and prime ministers! Yet the mycelial population that connects all trees and arguably is the formative source of all life, is even older. These trees are biologically...

Food Minerals Vitamins

Lest we forget – iron deficiency is common and a health risk!

Faced as we are with an infectious and mutating agent of illness, the allied focus on nutritional needs has been to identify foods and nutritional concentrates that confer an immunological advantage[1]. Covid-19 does not treat us equally. Undernourished people have weaker immune systems and may be at greater risk of severe illness due to the virus. Because iron deficiency degrades non-specific immunity, your body’s first line of defence against pathogens, you are more vulnerable to infection and...

Food Coronavirus Diets

Covid-19 Vs Sugar – which is the bigger risk?

As the UK progresses towards the current milestones indicated by the government regarding the changing of social restrictions and the possible development of a different societal set of norms, either temporary or prolonged, it is time to start to categorise risk and future health care plans as our work (in health provision) will be in large part shaped by these developments. Clearly, the aim of all countries needs to be focussed on the setting up of a future set of plans, strategies to mitigate future...

IBS Relief: Could a Combined Low-FODMAP and Gluten-Free Approach Be the Solution?

Immunity and Metabolism

Gastro Updates

The ‘cross talk’ between sleep, nutrition, and immunity

Enzymes and Lipids – a Healthy Vasculature Can Make

A Zen moment for Immunity

NCDs And Their Relationship to Our Environment

Immunosenescence and how to manage it

Lest we forget – iron deficiency is common and a health risk!

Covid-19 Vs Sugar – which is the bigger risk?

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