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Gastro Updates
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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...
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Akkermansia to the rescue
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Akkermansia to the rescue

The connection between gut microbiota and human health is well recognised and described, yet areas of uncertainty remain. This ultimate collaboration on human health has helped scientists to explain the essential mutual dependence between humans and their gut bacteria. Gut microbiota can be choreographed through passive or active strategies. The former includes hygiene, diet, lifestyle, and environment, while the latter comprises antibiotics, pre- and probiotics. In addition, dietary constituents...
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SCFAs and Skin Health
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SCFAs and Skin Health

‘It’s easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled’ attributed to Mark Twain The relationship between the gut and skin health has been one of contention for several years. Primarily the mechanism requires there to be an agreement that the outcome of digestion impacts skin quality. This may seem an obvious connection, but for many people, this is either not understood or denied, often supported by well-meaning clinicians who are also unaware of the important connection A paper...
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Dementia and the Gut
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Dementia and the Gut

Back in Nov 2020 the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease published a study undertaken in Geneva, that explored the connection between the bacteria and other organisms in the human gut and their possible link to dementia[1]. A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG) in Switzerland, together with Italian colleagues from the National Research and Care Centre for Alzheimer's and Psychiatric Diseases Fatebenefratelli in Brescia, University of Naples and the IRCCS...
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