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Vitamin B12, Autoimmunity and ‘Leaky Gut’
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Vitamin B12, Autoimmunity and ‘Leaky Gut’

A paper released on 20th Nov 2023 in the BMJ takes a close look at B12, common practice, and determination of need[1]. This interesting review is aimed at primary care clinicians but represents a good reference paper for all healthcare professionals utilising B12 supplements and nutritional guidance to resolve B12 deficiency or dietary inadequacy. Importantly the paper explores the interindividual variations in absorption, biliary B12 excretion and the somewhat insecure determination of need and...
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The Guts of Health
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The Guts of Health

Our digestive tract is a repository for a multitude of information processing cells, some of which are human and others not. Harbouring a diverse population of organisms in the human gut, including bacteria, fungi, viruses and sometimes parasites, means they interact with each other and with the immune system. In the last few years next-generation sequencing (NGS) techniques have revealed that the genes of gut microbes outnumber human genes by ~150- fold and that the gut microbiota displays unique...
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