Gulf War Illness 25 Years After Desert Storm
In the 25 years since Desert Storm, about 250,000 of the almost 700,000 involved in the Gulf War 1 theater have suffered from some version of the complex of symptoms now called Gulf War Illness. This illness was discussed in a recent symposium co-hosted by the Brookings Institution and Georgetown University Medical Center.
While Desert Storm battle casualties were light, military personnel were exposed to various chemical and biological agents. These included Pyridostigmine Bromide, to prevent the effects of nerve gases which had been used previously by Iraq; organophosphate pesticides (such as DEET) which were embedded in...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 4, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Joel Kupersmith and Michael O'Hanlon Tags: Featured Organization and Delivery Public Health Quality Department of Defense desert storm Gulf War Illness Research Veterans Veterans Administration Source Type: blogs
Is your doctor guilty of treating grain consumption?
Jennifer shared these comments about her husband’s early Wheat Belly transformation:
“My husband found your site a while back while doing research into symptoms he’s been experiencing for years. After following your advice with food, the doctor visits have stopped and I have a normal husband back.
“Prior to meeting him, he has always had issues with his weight and gut. He would exercise to the point of passing out and it just wouldn’t go anywhere. When I met him 5 years ago, he was jogging every night and exercising. He just couldn’t get the flabby stomach to go away and, every time the ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - August 4, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories abdominal distress diabetes gluten grains headache IBS Inflammation obesity overweight Source Type: blogs
How naive T cells decline with age
AIM, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), released an intriguing paper in Scientific Reports, on August 2, describing a novel explanation to a issue known to immunologists for decades: What causes the particular decline in immunity in outdated individuals? As soon as we are born we are destined to age, it’s a natural law which everyone adheres in order to. As we grow older our immunity gradually diminishes to a point where it is no longer able to effectively orchestrate an immune system response to fight and extinguish pathogens. The flu vaccine, for example , is only 17 to 53 percent effective in people age...
Source: My Irritable Bowel Syndrome Story - August 2, 2016 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Ken Tags: IBS News Source Type: blogs
Stomach disorders involve both brain-to-gut plus gut-to-brain pathways
New research indicates that in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or indigestion, there is a distinct brain-to-gut path, where psychological symptoms begin first, and separately a distinct gut-to-brain pathway, where gut symptoms start first.
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Source: My Irritable Bowel Syndrome Story - July 22, 2016 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Ken Tags: IBS News Source Type: blogs
Research team identifies a neuron signal controlling molecule
A research group led by Professor Seyun Kim of the Department of Biological Sciences at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has identified inositol pyrophosphates as the chemical that strongly controls neuron signaling via synaptotagmin.
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Source: My Irritable Bowel Syndrome Story - July 22, 2016 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Ken Tags: IBS News Source Type: blogs
Customized rye bread helps patients along with irritable bowel syndrome
Patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are often concerned that certain foods might trigger or worsen their signs and symptoms, which can include abdominal pain, diarrhea, or constipation. In a new study, patients who ate rye bread that was low in so-called “FODMAPs” (fermentable oligo- di- and mono-saccharides and polyols) experienced milder IBS signs and symptoms than patients who ate regular rye bread.
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Source: My Irritable Bowel Syndrome Story - July 18, 2016 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Ken Tags: IBS News Source Type: blogs
Monkey Pie
Ever have a slice of monkey pie? No? Well, that’s good, because there is no such thing, at least not in our part of the world. And it would be weird if there was. It would be contrary to instinctive notions, eating a creature similar to humans. You wouldn’t eat human pie and, for similar reasons, you wouldn’t eat monkey pie.
Would you agree that every creature on earth, human and otherwise, follows an instinctive dietary program?
This toad is an insectivore, consuming flies and grasshoppers in order to survive. Nobody had to tell this toad that flies are delicious. Properly nourished...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 8, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle adaptive evolutionary gastrointestinal gluten grains Inflammation Source Type: blogs
June blogs digest: irritable bowel syndrome, regenerative medicine, single cell omics, and more
Overcoming irritable bowel syndrome
The various mysteries about the nature and causes of irritable bowel syndrome are particularly frustrating for patients who experience it, as well as for those who try to treat it. Following the Digestive Disease Week conference which took place in San Diego from 21-24 May, Shanti Eswaran explained more about the work she presented on a diet found to improve symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome.
Regenerative medicine in China: when myth meets reality
Burns & Trauma has recently started a thematic series titled ‘Trauma regeneration’ introducing the latest developments of rege...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - July 6, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Sophie Marchant Tags: Biology Health Medicine blogs digest Source Type: blogs
Chemoradiotherapy after surgery for gastric malignancy shows similar outcomes to post-operative chemotherapy
Post-operative treatment intensification with chemoradiotherapy does not achieve much better outcomes when compared to post-operative chemotherapy in patients with gastric cancer who have already undergone pre-operative chemotherapy, according to stage III data presented at the ESMO 18th World Congress of Stomach Cancer in Barcelona, Spain.
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Source: My Irritable Bowel Syndrome Story - June 30, 2016 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Ken Tags: IBS News Source Type: blogs
Experts create key diagnostic measures with regard to gastrointestinal disorders
With no lab test available to diagnose functional stomach disorders, proper diagnostic criteria are usually critical for clinicians to make an accurate determination of what ails their individuals.
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Source: My Irritable Bowel Syndrome Story - June 21, 2016 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Ken Tags: IBS News Source Type: blogs
Smoke low-tar cigarettes? The fatal flaw in logic of nutritional studies
Just because something bad is reduced or eliminated in cigarettes, it should not logically follow that cigarettes must now be good, right? Low-tar, filtered cigarettes may be less harmful than full-tar, unfiltered cigarettes, but still contain heavy metals like mercury, lead, and cadmium, as well as nicotine, naphthalene, arsenic, formaldehyde, ammonia and other toxic compounds. Low- or no-tar does NOT mean healthy. This may seem obvious, but it is surprising how many people—physicians and dietitians included—fall for such flawed logic when applied to nutrition.
We saw this play out in yet another flawed analys...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 16, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle barley corn epidemiological gluten longevity rye white flour whole grains Source Type: blogs
Researchers report breakthrough inhibition of intestinal tract tumors in mice models
Scientists from the Institute for Fundamental Science (IBS) have successfully inhibited the growth of colon cancers in mice with mismatch repair deficiency. The research team, headed with the Center’s director MYUNG Kyungjae, made the announcement in a manuscript published in the American Association for Cancer Research on June 6th. This is a significant breakthrough for the future treatment of digestive tract cancer patients; specifically for those with DNA mismatch repair (MMR) deficient tumors.
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Source: My Irritable Bowel Syndrome Story - June 15, 2016 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Ken Tags: IBS News Source Type: blogs
Adjuvant chemotherapy improves overall survival in patients with stage IB non-small cell lung cancer
The use of adjuvant chemotherapy in early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients improves overall survival (OS) and 5-year OS in patients with tumor sizes ranging from 3 – 7 cm.
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Source: My Irritable Bowel Syndrome Story - June 13, 2016 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Ken Tags: IBS News Source Type: blogs
Receptor in nasal cavity may be linked to choice for high-fat food
The paper by Brazilian researchers released in the journal Scientific Reports identifies a study showing that a subgroup of olfactory neurons in the nasal tooth cavity express a cellular receptor specializing in the transport of lipid substances.
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Source: My Irritable Bowel Syndrome Story - June 13, 2016 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Ken Tags: IBS News Source Type: blogs
Individuals with IBS often have negative medical care encounters
(HealthDay)—Patients suffering from serious irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) often have negative experiences of health care runs into, and actively negotiate such professional discourse by presenting a counternarrative describing their own suffering and strengths, according to a study published online Might 24 in the Journal of Clinical Nursing.
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Source: My Irritable Bowel Syndrome Story - June 1, 2016 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Ken Tags: IBS News Source Type: blogs
