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- October 6, 2012
International Seminar - Prof Garth Nicolson & Dr Rita Ellithorpe
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Eosinophilic Oesophagitis: Rapidly emerging disorder.
Eosinophilic Oesophagitis (EoE), first described in the early 1990’s, has rapidly evolved as distinctive chronic inflammatory oesophageal disease. The diagnosis is based clinically by the presence of symptoms related to an oesophageal dysfunction a...
Read more »Faecal Transplantation Works for C. difficile Colitis
I have written a number of times about the role of faecal transplantation in the established intervention for Clostridium difficile and have hinted at the possible cross mechanism benefits of inducing commensal bacteria that favour tolerance into the...
Read more »Researchers Pinpoint How Vitamin D May Help Clear Amyloid Plaques in Alzheimer’s Disease
Published in the March 6 issue of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, the early findings show that vitamin D3 may activate key genes and cellular signalling networks to help stimulate the immune system to clear the amyloid-beta protein.[1] P...
Read more »Does Avoiding Allergens When Pregnant or Breast Feeding Confer Any Benefit
It has been considered over the last few years to advise mothers during pregnancy and whilst breast feeding to avoid allergenic foods such as milk, nuts, and other risky foods to reduce the risk of childhood allergy. Not for the first time researcher...
Read more »Taking a Good Family History Made Easy
My Family Health Portrait is the Web-based tool from NHGRI and the U.S. Surgeon General's Family History Initiative that helps you create your own family health history. Using any computer, an Internet connection and an up-to-date Web browser, y...
Read more »How Fast You Walk and Your Grip in Middle Age May Predict Dementia, Stroke
A presentation at the American Academy of Neurologys 64th Annual Meeting in 2012 suggests that simple tests performed in clinics may provide insights into future stroke and dementia risk.[1] Simple tests such as walking speed and hand grip strengt...
Read more »Faecal Transplant by Enema Works for Stubborn C. Difficile.
I have previously discussed the use of faecal transplant therapy as an effective treatment for the pervasive infectious agent C.Diff. This is a serious often difficult to resolve bacterial infection that occurs primarily whilst patients are hospitali...
Read more »70% of Europeans suffer from low vitamin D levels
A group of experts has prepared a report on vitamin D supplementation for menopausal women after it was revealed that Europeans have suffered an alarming decrease in their levels of this vitamin. In their opinion, the ideal would be to maintain blood...
Read more »Does Your Daily Slice of Bacon With A Sausage Cause Pancreatic Cancer
The thought that part of the British Breakfast may be nibbling away at our pancreatic cells integrity is bound to put a shock wave through households across the country – or is it? We as a nation along with most other advanced nations consider that...
Read more »Functional Medicine, A Systems Wide Approach To Health Care
Over the time that man has worked to meet the medical needs of our various populations dealing with problems such as diseases and trauma the various cultures on our crowded planet have evolved differing philosophies, scientific explanation and style ...
Read more »Health Map Tracks Infectious Diseases
HealthMap, a team of researchers, epidemiologists and software developers at Children's Hospital Boston founded in 2006, is an established global leader in utilising online informal sources for disease outbreak monitoring and real-time surveillance...
Read more »XMRV Researcher Jailed
As many readers and people with an interest in Chronic Fatigue will have read over the last few months, the researcher Judy Mikovits has been having a hard time finding labs to replicate her controversial findings regarding the XMRV virus. Attract...
Read more »Latest Abstracts
Breast is Best for Gut Bacteria
Whilst the findings may seem consistent with our current understanding of the relationships between the gastrointestinal tracts bacterial maturation and immune functionality – the relationship between competence and br...
Read more »MultiVitamin Food Supplements Boost Brain Function
So…. it seems that the evidence in favour of a multi-nutrient beneficially affecting brain function and cognition is increasing. The British Journals of Nutrition[1], Psychopharmacology,[2] Biological Psychology[3] and...
Read more »Parkinsons and Faecal Transplantation – or at least resolution of constipation!
Faecal bacteriotherapy, now termed faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), has gained prominence in light of the recent epidemic of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in North America and Europe. Coupled with the eme...
Read more »Leaky Gut May Be The Primary Mechanism For Autoimmune Activation?
In January 2011 a very interesting paper was published in Physiological Reviews, exploring the role of gastrointestinal permeability, genetics and risk of development of autoimmune diseases.[1] This abstract explores ...
Read more »High-Dose Vitamin D May Alleviate Menstrual Cramps: Study
Women who experience painful menstrual cramps could find relief from high-dose vitamin D3, according to new research – which suggests the dietary supplement could provide an alternative to painkilling drugs that are cu...
Read more »The Benefits Of Vitamin D On Gait, Muscle Strength And Balance In Older Adults
The usefulness of vitamin D is increasingly being explored and as a result better studies are being collated and brought into publication. A study published the Journal of the American Geriatric Society in Dec 2011 revea...
Read more »The Relevance of Prior Parasitic Infection and The Risk of IBS And CFS
Giardia lamblia (synonymous with Giardia intestinalis, Lamblia intestinalis and Giardia duodenalis) is a flagellated protozoan parasite that colonises and reproduces in the small intestine, causing giardiasis. The giardi...
Read more »Brain Function and Bladder Cancer Respond To Multi Vitamins
It can from time to time (some may say all of the time) seem as if the medical world simply wish, regardless of the building evidence pile, to deny the value of using concentrated food ingredients in the improvement of t...
Read more »Blastocystis Hominis Vs Saccharomyces Boulardii
I have previously discussed the various genotypes of B.hominis and why in some patients the expected symptomatology is absent in the presence of occupation and in others symptoms are profound. You may read more on this s...
Read more »Coeliac Disease Diagnosis – Biopsy Relevant
Coeliac disease (CD) is a permanent intolerance to gluten found in wheat, rye and barley. Gluten induces an autoimmune reaction in the small intestinal mucosa resulting in inflammation, villous atrophy and malabsorption....
Read more »Apples Can Suppress IBD
Here's another reason why "an apple a day keeps the doctor away"—according to new research findings published in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology (https://www.jleukbio.org), oral ingestion of apple polyphenols (antioxi...
Read more »You AhR What You Eat: Linking Diet and Immunity.
Researchers reporting in the journal Cell[1] on October 13th, in the journal Science[2] on Oct 27th and Nature Reviews Immunology[3] earlier in the year are among the first to describe a mechanistic link between dietary ...
Read more »Latest Reviews
16% of Cancer Described as Avoidable! – What About The Rest?
The research, published in Lancet Oncology and carried out at the International Agency for Research on Cancer, studied international data for 27 cancers in 184 countries in order to identify the factors which contribute to the development of the dise...
Read more »Fatigue, Immunity and Inflammation:– Their Resolution Using Natural Medicine.
Michael E. Ash BSc DO ND,Prof Garth L. Nicolson Ph.D and Robert Settenari Ph.D explain the relationship between energy defecit, mitochondrial membrane quality, the immune system, inflammation and how to recover from persistent fatigue using validat...
Read more »Thymic Stromal Lymphopoietin (TSLP) – What We Need To Know & Why
Many Nutritional Therapists will consult people with a well-defined allergy or in some cases a range of symptoms that reflect an allergic response that do not meet the recognised IgE diagnosis. Some of these people will also be experiencing what ...
Read more »A Nutritional Proposal For Improving “Mental health” with a focus on depression
At present no chronic disease has a greater drag on global function than mental illness.[1] A remarkable 40% of the European population is affected in any given year with depressive symptoms, and these numbers are rising. Core symptoms include de...
Read more »So How Much Vitamin D do I Need?
In practice life a number of questions arise relating to all supplemental suggestions and vitamin D is no different. • What do I need to be healthy? • How do I know what my levels are now? • ...
Read more »Glycophospholipids and their Effect on Fatigue
Michael Ash interviewed colleague Dr Rita Ellithorpe MD for CAM on the clinical application of a patent pending form of phospholipids known as glycophospholipids and commercially sold as NT Factor and referred to as Lipid Replacement Therapy® (...
Read more »Amla: An Ancient Super Berry Emerges from India
The most revered medicinal berry in the entire subcontinent of India—Amla berry, or Emblica officinalis—is said to come from the first tree to appear on earth, manifested out of the tears of Brahma while he was meditating.[1] Folk tales often ...
Read more »Taking a Good Family History Made Easy
My Family Health Portrait is the Web-based tool from NHGRI and the U.S. Surgeon General's Family History Initiative that helps you create your own family health history. Using any computer, an Internet connection and an up-to-date Web browser, y...
Read more »Probiotics Can Make Dendritic Cells Stop Singing the Blues
GUT is one of my favourite journals, as they regularly explore the ‘alternative’ approaches to colon health management with a vigour that appeases the clinician in me, and a rigour that calms the scientist. A paper published in early 2012[1] a...
Read more »Cod Liver Oil vs TB
In a feature article in the Christmas 2011 edition of the well-known British Medical Journal, Professor Emeritus Malcolm Green revisited an 1848 study looking at the potential benefits of Cod Liver Oil in the treatment of Tuberculosis.[1] In the s...
Read more »Coeliac Disease and its Many Complications
Coeliac disease (CD), also called gluten-sensitive enteropathy or non-tropical sprue, is a unique autoimmune disorder which results from the interaction between gluten and immune, genetic and environmental factors. Originally CD was considered as a m...
Read more »Microbes and Us
Over the past several years, studies have revealed an astonishing diversity in our so-called microbiome. A five year project utilising researchers from around the world has been constructed to identify our mutual cohabitants that define our microbiom...
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