The lowdown on the low-FODMAP diet
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common intestinal disorder that produces distressing symptoms like abdominal pain, significant bloating, and altered bowel movements that can shuttle between diarrhea and constipation.
While changing what you eat won’t cure you, an evidence-based approach called the low-FODMAP diet is the most frequently prescribed food plan to help relieve IBS symptoms. Studies show it can reduce symptoms for the majority of patients. However, because of certain challenges and risks associated with the low-FODMAP diet, it’s worth talking to an expert before you try it.
FODMAP basics
The low-FODMAP...
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What ’ s the most effective collagen supplement?
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Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 13th 2020
In conclusion, sitting for prolonged periods of time without interruption is unfavorably associated with DBP and HDL cholesterol.
Exercise Slows Inappropriate Growth of Blood Vessels in a Mouse Model of Macular Degeneration
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Excessive growth of blood vessels beneath the retina is a proximate cause of blindness in conditions such as macular degeneration. Researchers here provide evidence for physical activity to be influential in the pace at which this process of tissu...
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What ’ s wrong with probiotics?
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The Aging Gut Microbiome Produces More Trimethylamine, Harming Arterial Function
In recent years academic interest has grown in the study of the gut microbiome. Researchers are making inroads into understanding the considerable influence of these microbial populations over the progression of health and aging. The gut microbiome may be as influential as physical activity in these matters. The balance of microbial populations shifts unfavorably over time, for reasons that are yet to be fully mapped and understood. This leads to greater numbers of inflammatory microbes, or those that produce harmful byproducts, and fewer microbes that produce beneficial metabolites. Researchers have identified some of the...
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How to stay young until you die
The emerging science on the microbiome has revealed a fascinating key to gaining control over a number of important facets of the aging process.
With the strategies I discuss in this video, people are experiencing:
–Restoration of youthful muscle and strength
–Reduced skin wrinkles and increased dermal collagen
–Accelerated healing
–Increased libido
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We are also experiencing an increase in empathy and desire for human connection, all via a boost in oxytocin release.
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What 60 Minutes got wrong about the microbiome and probiotics
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Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 29th 2020
In conclusion, metabolomics is a promising approach for the assessment of biological age and appears complementary to established epigenetic clocks.
Sedentary Behavior Raises the Risk of Cancer Mortality
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Living a sedentary lifestyle is known to be harmful to long term health, raising the risk of age-related disease and mortality. Researchers here show that a sedentary life specifically increases cancer mortality, and does so independently of other factors. This is one of many, many reasons to maintain a r...
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Gastrointestinal Diseases in America: The Costly Impact on Employers and Patients
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Gastrointestinal diseases like inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are more prevalent—and costlier—than many employers realize. Up to 70 million Americans are affected by gastrointestinal (GI) diseases each year—twice as many people as those living with diabetes (34.2 million).[1],[2] Overall direct healthcare costs for GI diseases are estimated to be $136 billion each year in the U.S., more than heart disease ($113bn) and mental health disorders ($99bn) [Figure 1]...
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Cyclic Peptides to Remodel the Gut Microbiome by Suppressing Growth of Harmful Bacteria
Research into the effects of the gut microbiome on health and aging is presently flourishing. Scientists are identifying meaningful changes in microbial populations that take place with age, as well as metabolites generated by gut microbes that favorably influence health, such as indoles, butyrate, propionate, and so forth. With advancing age, the balance of microbial populations shifts from beneficial to harmful. The production of beneficial metabolites decreases. Microbes invade gut tissue to produce a state of chronic inflammation that spreads to accelerate the onset and progression of age-related disease throughout the...
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Statins disrupt the intestinal microbiome
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Probiotics — even inactive ones — may relieve IBS symptoms
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a chronic gut-brain disorder that can cause a variety of uncomfortable gastrointestinal symptoms including abdominal pain and diarrhea, constipation, or a mix of the two. IBS can reduce quality of life, often results in missed school or work, and can have a substantial economic impact.
Physicians diagnose IBS by identifying symptoms laid out in the Rome Criteria, a set of diagnostic measures developed by a group of more than 100 international experts. Limited diagnostic testing is also done, to help exclude other conditions that could present with similar symptoms.
Although the precise cau...
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Why your bowels are making you sick
The intestinal microbiome plays a huge role in how you feel, your mental outlook, how well you sleep, as well as your health. It can be responsible for health conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia, restless leg syndrome, type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes, hypertension, fatty liver, autoimmune and neurodegenerative conditions.
It has become easier to identify, then manage, your intestinal microbiome and you don’t even need a doctor to do it.
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Glyphosate: The Antibiotic
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