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Lifestyle factors for the prevention and care of people with inflammatory bowel disease

Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) typically featuring chronic diarrhoea (with or without bleeding), abdominal pain, and weight loss. These affect an estimated 3.1 million adults in the USA and another 1.3 million in Europe[1],[2]. Globally, the incidence of IBD is increasing, particularly in newly industrialised countries[3]. These diseases are characterised by chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. However, other symptoms...

Metabolism Digestive Health Food Lifestyle Medicine

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...

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Sleep-Immunity-Nutrition

Over the last decades, the prevalence of sleep disorders has substantially increased globally, and it is increasingly understood to have many important health and economic-related effects.[1] A wide range of behavioural risk factors have been identified to explain, at least in part, this rise in sleep challenges. One primary driver is the evolution of the modern lifestyle which is characterised by a number of potential contributors, such as higher levels of non-resolving stress, prolonged working...

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Exercise Motivation Likely To Be Linked to Gut Health

Whilst we all understand as each year passes there are ever more intricate links between the organisms that exist in our gut and our health – have you ever thought that a eubiotic gut (A healthy and balanced state marked by high diversity and abundance of microbial populations in the GI tract) may be one of the reasons some people find exercise motivation easier than those with a dysbiotic digestive tract. Examining the variations between those mice that like to exercise and those that do not, it...

Immune Health Digestive Health Probiotics

Leveraging diet to engineer the gut microbiome to manage inflammation

The gut microbiome, i.e., the community of bacteria and other microorganisms living in the human gut, has been implicated both directly and indirectly (mediating the effects of diet) on human health. Differences in gut microbiome composition and function have been associated with a variety of chronic diseases ranging from gastrointestinal inflammatory and metabolic conditions to neurological, autoimmunity, cardiovascular, and respiratory illnesses[1]. Headline Takeaways Gut microbiome composition...

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Blood Sugar and Metabolism

Recent articles in various journals have highlighted the challenge mere mortals have matching their metabolic needs with the foods they trust and like. When to eat In September 2022, a study from the University of Aberdeen, published in the journal Cell Metabolism, caused a stir by potentially dispelling a food timing myth[1]. It looked at the time of day people ate and whether it had any impact on metabolism and weight management. You see, Back in 2013 another study found that calories ingested...

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Exercise Linked to More Diverse Intestinal Microbiome

Athletes, particularly those at the top of their profession appear to be are big winners when it comes to their gut microflora. A recent paper suggests that exercise has a direct effect on microbial composition and related gastrointestinal health. The article ‘Exercise and associated dietary extremes impact on gut microbial diversity’ was published in the international journal GUT.[1] The relationship among the gut microbiota, exercise and related dietary changes has received much less attention...

Lifestyle factors for the prevention and care of people with inflammatory bowel disease

Gastro Updates

Sleep-Immunity-Nutrition

Exercise Motivation Likely To Be Linked to Gut Health

Leveraging diet to engineer the gut microbiome to manage inflammation

Blood Sugar and Metabolism

Exercise Linked to More Diverse Intestinal Microbiome

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