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Gastro Updates
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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Global Challenges with Lifestyle Solutions
Metabolism Cardiovascular Health Sleep

Global Challenges with Lifestyle Solutions

The global obesity epidemic is well established, with increases in obesity prevalence in most countries since the 1980s. Obesity is understood to contribute directly to incident cardiovascular risk factors, including dyslipidaemia, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and sleep disorders. Obesity also leads to the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and CVD mortality independently of other cardiovascular risk factors. The development of CVD is driven, in part, by obesity-related metabolic, endocrinologic...
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Sleep-Immunity-Nutrition
Immune Health Probiotics Sleep

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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The Guts of Health
Immune Health Digestive Health Diets

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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