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Tocotrienols, Probiotics and PhosphoGlycolipids: A Perfect Prescription for the Liver?
By Michael Ash, BSc, DO, ND, F.DipIOn One of my primary areas of research and expertise is the gut microbiota and its diverse impact on our health. Your liver receives nearly 70% of its blood supply from the intestine, and represents a first line ...
Read more »Functional Medicine Vs Multiple Sclerosis.
The role of food in health is sometimes seen as an abstract process, and many clinicians prefer to sink into the banal balanced food concept to avoid any detailed analysis or change of their patients food intake. Functional medicine trains clinicians...
Read more »A New Form of Food Reactivity
Food Protein Enterocolitis (FPIES) may be a new term to you, but as with a number of emerging subsets of food reactivity it appears to be a little over half as common as IgE food responses (0.34% by 1 year of age; immunoglobulin E-mediated cow's milk...
Read more »Dietary Treatment of Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) or Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD)
The condition - Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is increasing in prevalence, in tandem with the obesity epidemic, in both children and adults. Identifying specific dietary components that drive NASH is important for successful management of this ...
Read more »Antibiotic Exposure in Infancy Linked to Food Allergies
Long implicated in numerous adverse events linked to intestinal immunity and associated mucosal tolerance a recent presentation at the American Academy of Allergy Asthma &Immunology annual meeting has shown a credible causation link between antib...
Read more »Animation: Immunology in the Gut Mucosa
The gut mucosa is the largest and most dynamic immunological environment of the body. It's often the first point of pathogen exposure and many microbes use it as a beachhead into the rest of the body. The gut immune system therefore needs to be ready...
Read more »The Gut and Food Supplements
The following commentary is extracted and modified from: Regulation of Gastrointestinal Mucosal Growth. Rao JN, Wang JY. San Rafael (CA): Morgan & Claypool Life Sciences; 2010. Your gastrointestinal tract is the only p...
Read more »Russian Scientists To Do Live GMO Trial
You may recall that in Sept 2012 a group of French Scientists wrote about the deleterious effects on the health of study rats fed a diet of corn derived from Monsantos GMO variety. Researchers from the University of Caen found that rats fed on a diet...
Read more »Identification Of Causative Foods In Children With Eosinophilic Oesophagitis Treated With An Elimination Diet
In previous posts I have discussed the progressive emergence of a subset of patients with problems induced by foods driving immune changes in their oesophagus. Eosinophilic oesophagitis (EoE) is a chronic inflammatory disease with isolated eosinophil...
Read more »Gastro Intestinal Functionality and Health Workshop
Nutri-Link and Doctors Data are professional health care companies providing services and product to meet the needs of clinicians, practitioners and their patients. Dedicated to the role of nutrition and functional medicine in the restoration of heal...
Read more »Lose 30 Minutes Off Your Life With Every Burger
We are I think, cognitive of the concept that behaviour can affect lifespan, and whilst bungee jumping is a well regulated sport, it does make most people feel intimidated and conscious that their life may be significantly shortened in the event of a...
Read more »Number of Drugs That React Dangerously With Grapefruit Is Increasing
Almost 2 decades ago, Canadian researchers uncovered that grapefruit interferes with the body’s metabolism of certain drugs, including the immunosuppressant cyclosporine and at least one drug used to treat high blood pressure. [1] The same group...
Read more »Latest Abstracts
Probiotics Reduce Hepatic Encephalopathy Risk by 50%
At the International Liver Congress 2013: 48th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL). An abstract was presented exploring the role of probiotics in the reduction of risk for develop...
Read more »Fishy No Longer: Fish Oil Can ‘Boost’ The Immune System
Fish oil rich in DHA and EPA is widely believed to help prevent disease by reducing inflammation, but until now, scientists were not entirely sure about its immune enhancing effects. A new report appearing in the April 2...
Read more »Avoiding Gluten Hastens Weight Loss
But.... it also appears to offer far more than simply compressing overall body mass. For some time the world of gluten sensitivity as well as the pathology coeliac disease have been experiencing a substantial amount of i...
Read more »Male Bacteria Oppose Diabetes
This editorial piece has largely been provided by Olive Leavy – editor of Nature Reviews Immunology.[1] Although numerous gene polymorphisms associated with autoimmune disease risk have been identified, addition...
Read more »Faecal Transplantation Re-Establishes the Balance of Nature
An article in the New England Journal of Medicine, January 2013 explores the validity of faecal transplant therapy for the resolution of C. difficile therapy and reminds us that back in 1958 clinicians in Denver trialled...
Read more »Butyric acid: what is the future for this old substance?
A recent paper in the journal Swiss Medical Weekly explored the developing uses for the application of butyric acid in the management of human health.[1] Butyric acid (BA) is a carboxylic acid with the formula CH3-CH2...
Read more »At Last a Good Use for Coca Cola?
Now it is unlikely that when I mention the problem for which a recent publication in in the January 2013 issue of Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics confirmed Coca Colas therapeutic use, that you have either heard ...
Read more »Probiotics Consumed During Pregnancy And Breast Feeding Reduces Risk Of Eczema In The Infant
For a number of years I have written, lectured, discussed and treated people with the emerging confidence that the application of benign, but signalling specific human derived bacteria would have benefits in terms of muc...
Read more »Miles on menu may help healthy choices
A recent study and surrounding media has suggested that explaining to energy costs of foods eaten in terms of activity required to utilise the calories may offer a better incentive for a healthy choice by the consumer.[1...
Read more »Gluten Sensitivity: Real or Not
.....Is the title to the BMJ’s Editor’s Choice article this week (Dec 12th 2012) and whilst we in the Nutritional Therapy world find the concept that physicians still deny the empirical evidence of people recovering ...
Read more »Nutrients for Managing Anxiety and other Mental Health Problems
There are numerous incidences of natural agents being used to reduce the consequences of increased anxiety; some of these have a better sense of position in science than others. It must be remembered that there are still...
Read more »Vitamins Prime Immunity
Whilst the recognition has existed for many years that deficiency in nutrients and vitamins compromises immune function, some gaps have existed in our understanding. Whilst I have covered the role of the lipid soluble...
Read more »Latest Reviews
The Next Generation Vitamin E: How Tocotrienols Prevent and Repair Heart, Brain and Liver Disease
Hidden in the stately steppes of gentle rice paddies, lurking in shiny clusters of red and purple palm fruit, nestled in tiny annatto seeds from the achiote tree…lies a quartet of potent anti-inflammatory, highly protective molecules called tocotri...
Read more »Older Population Experiences Vit D Deficiency More Commonly – What Are The Risks?
Having severe vitamin D deficiency may put people aged 65 years and older at more than twice the risk of having self-reported respiratory disease, according to an article published online May 6 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.[1] Th...
Read more »Multiple Sclerosis, a Review
Dr Todd Born ND, reviews the complexities of MS and explores the potential role of nutrition in prevention and management. Multiple sclerosis is the most common autoimmune inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS). Mult...
Read more »Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), Why We Need To Be Responsive.
Dr Todd Born ND explores the increasingly common problem of NAFLD. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) refers to the presence of hepatic steatosis when no other causes for secondary hepatic fat accumulation (eg, heavy alcohol consumption) are...
Read more »Swapping Poo Fixes IBD (in children so far)
In numerous earlier posts I have explored the emerging evidence as well as the historical experiences for the use of faecal microbial transplantation (FMT) and the management of complex dysbiotic gastrointestinal tracts: this is also sometimes called...
Read more »The Forgotten Therapeutic Applications of Castor Oil
This ancient remedy is explored by Dr Todd Born ND, in terms of its clinical application and the slowly expanding body of published data on its effects on human physiology and biology. For many centuries folk lore medicine has recommended the use ...
Read more »Antibiotics – Unintended Consequences; Microbiota and Immunity Suffer
Your gastrointestinal tract is home to complex microbial populations, which, collectively, are referred to as the microbiota. The relation between the microbiota and you - the host is meant to be symbiotic, with you providing a warm moist physical ni...
Read more »Vitamin D Testing – What About Reliability?
Following a series of questions raised by colleagues concerning the accuracy of vitamin D testing we asked Doctors Data, based in the USA to respond to some of the general concerns raised, as their lab has recently undertaken an extensive review of...
Read more »Anxiety; A Naturopathic Perspective
Dr. Todd Born ND reviews some of the botanical, lifestyle and nutritional approaches available to manage anxiety. Picture the world in 2050. A demographic shift towards older age that began generations ago will have reached its peak, and 2 billion...
Read more »Autoimmunity and the Worm
An immunologist, Dr Joel Weinstock provoked mixed reactions from the scientific community when he suggested that in line with Strachan’s hygiene theory[1] and Rook’s ‘old friend’s theory,[2] that the removal from the western world of helminth...
Read more »Why Eating Less Makes Your Guts Healthier
We often forget what marvelous machines our bodies are. Each of our organs is constructed from diverse cell types arranged in a complex, stereotyped pattern, allowing them to carry out their assigned tasks — propelling blood, composing a paragraph,...
Read more »Mechanisms of Membrane Repair and the Novel Role of Oral Phospholipids (Lipid Replacement Therapy®) and Antioxidants to Improve Membrane Function.
by: Michael Ash BSc DO ND F.DipION+, Prof. Garth L. Nicolson, Ph.D.* +Nutri-Link Clinical Education, Devon UK *Department of Molecular Pathology, The Institute for Molecular Medicine, Huntington Beach, CA 92647 If the fundamental biolog...
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