Make your own probiotic yogurt
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Source: Wheat Belly Blog - April 18, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle bowel flora microbiota probiotic Source Type: blogs
The hard facts behind constipation
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Source: Wheat Belly Blog - April 18, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle bowel flora microbiota prebiotic probiotic undoctored Source Type: blogs
COVID-19 Podcast: Mom Driven, Doctor Aligned & HeyMama Join Forces
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[00:00:00] Agatha: Hi! It’s Agatha Luczo. Welcome to “Mom Driven, Dr. Aligned”. Dr. Alan Greene and I were just on with the HeyMama Community doing a Q&A about COVID-19. Dr. Greene gave us such amazing advice and tips about how to deal with immunity health and how to take care of ourselves during this time. And some advice I haven’t heard anywhere else. I’m excited to bring all of the conversation to our family and friends.
[00:00:36] Dr. Greene: Wonderful to get to be with the HeyMama Community. I’ve gotten a bunch of questions already ...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - April 16, 2020 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Uncategorized COVID COVID-19 Parenting Source Type: blogs
COVID: Supplements, the Immune System, and Preventative Care
In the midst of a viral pandemic, with orders to “shelter at home” in effect, parents may be wondering what else can be done to protect the health of their families. Unprecedented circumstances often lead to feelings of a loss of control, which can sometimes generate a sense of fear, and even sadness.
Minimizing unnecessary travel and condensing trips to the grocery store or pharmacy is a vital part of slowing the spread of illness, however, there are also ways to take care of yourself and your children that can improve the function of the innate immune system, lessen stress, and increase the chances of staying safe an...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - April 13, 2020 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Air Quality COVID COVID-19 Immunity Vitamins & Supplements Zinc Source Type: blogs
Eating during COVID-19: Improve your mood and lower stress
My patients these days are expressing more angst and fear, and looking to find ways to cope with the pandemic and the “new normal.” With children and entire families home together all day, and work and school schedules disrupted, loss of a daily routine can increase anxiety and disrupt healthy eating. One of the drivers for this increase in anxiety seems to be uncertainty, which can throw plans for healthy eating out the window.
Meal planning for a family, a challenge on its own, can be more so now with seclusion at home, more people to feed with different tastes, and more food stores with limited groceries and shoppin...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 7, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Uma Naidoo, MD Tags: Diet and Weight Loss Food as medicine Healthy Eating Prevention Probiotics Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 6th 2020
This study delves into the mechanisms by which a short period of fasting can accelerate wound healing. Fasting triggers many of the same cellular stress responses, such as upregulated autophagy, as occur during the practice of calorie restriction. It isn't exactly the same, however, so it is always worth asking whether any specific biochemistry observed in either case does in fact occur in both situations. In particular, the period of refeeding following fasting appears to have beneficial effects that are distinct from those that occur while food is restricted.
Multiple forms of therapeutic fasting have been repor...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 5, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Transplanting Gut Microbes from Long-Lived Humans into Mice to Assess the Outcomes
It is well known that the gut microbiome is influential on long-term health, and undergoes detrimental changes with advancing age. Beneficial species decline, while inflammatory and otherwise unhelpful species prosper. The reasons for these changes are not well understood, but probably involve a combination of many factors, such as diet, immune dysfunction, and so forth. There is a growing interest in the research community in assessing the contribution of gut microbiome changes to degenerative aging, and finding ways to reverse those changes.
The study noted here is less interesting for the presented data, and more...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 1, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Prebiotic Fibers: The RIGHT Kind of High-Fiber
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Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 29, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle microbiota prebiotic probiotic Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 30th 2020
This study, for the first time, shows that transplantation of non-autologous mitochondria from healthy skeletal muscle cells into normal cardiomyocytes leads to short-term improvement of bioenergetics indicating "supercharged" state. However, over time these improved effects disappear, which suggests transplantation of mitochondria may have a potential application in settings where there is an acute stress.
Outlining Some of the Science Behind Partial Reprogramming at Turn.bio
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2020/03/outlining-some-of-the-science-behind-partial-reprogramming-at-turn-bio/
Turn.bio is ...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 29, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Age and Dietary Fat Result in Larger Inflammatory Populations of Gut Microbes
This study investigated the short-term responses of the gut microbiota composition to diets with different fat contents. Experimental animals were fed either a a normal diet (ND) or a high-fat diet (HFD) for 20 weeks and the microbial composition was evaluated at 10 and 20 weeks. In agreement with previous studies, body weight and the expression of colonic cytokines increased with higher dietary fat content. The diversity of the gut microbiota was significantly influenced by both age and diet, and two variable showed significant interactions.
At the phylum level, the proportion of Actinobacteria was significantl...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 27, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
The Gut Microbiome as a Contributing Factor in Alzheimer's Disease
The gut microbiome changes with age in ways that provoke chronic inflammation. Beneficial microbial populations decline in number while harmful populations expand. This is likely the result of numerous contributing factors, including dietary changes characteristic of age and the decline of the immune system, but at this point it is a challenge to pin down which of these processes are more versus less important to the overall outcome. It is well known that chronic inflammation drives a faster progression of many of the common age-related diseases, including neurodegenerative conditions. Thus it is expected to find links bet...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 26, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
L. casei subspecies Shirota augments the immune response
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Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 23, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates bowel flora probiotic undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Some unconventional thoughts on coronavirus (COVID-19)
Public health authorities are advising frequent hand washing and social distancing, especially in the absence of confirmatory testing for COVID-19. I don’t have any wisdom to add to these practices. Vaccines are in the works, as are anti-viral drugs—nothing to add here, either.
But let me reiterate what we do in the Wheat Belly and Undoctored lifestyles. In general, we do not treat diseases; we correct the factors that allow disease to emerge in the first place—a big difference.
Take rheumatoid arthritis, for example. In conventional healthcare, the joint pain and swelling of rheumatoid arthritis are sup...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 18, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open probiotic undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Psychology Around the Net: March 14, 2020
This week’s Psychology Around the Net covers the importance of protecting your mental health while still practicing social distance, how gratitude interventions aren’t the best for helping with anxiety and depression symptoms, our children’s takeaways regarding COVID-19, and more.
Also, in case you haven’t seen it! We’re celebrating 25 years of Psych Central! 25 Fabulous Years of Psych Central: An Interview with Founder & CEO John Grohol.
Does Personality Affect the Composition of the Gut Microbiome? New research involving questionnaires and fecal samples suggests our personality traits ...
Source: World of Psychology - March 14, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alicia Sparks Tags: Psychology Around the Net anxiety coronavirus COVID-19 Depression Emotions gratitude intervention Narcissist Source Type: blogs
Morning Anxiety: Causes and Cures to Combat the Waking “What Ifs”
Although I’ve been dealing with anxiety for almost three decades now, I just recently noticed how much more debilitating “waking-up anxiety” is compared to when it infiltrates my brain at other times of day and night. This morning anxiety business belongs in a whole other stratosphere. Looking back, I realize that my worst-of-the-worst fears have happened upon awakening. And those fears are that much harder to harness, that much harder not to believe.
I began to wonder if it’s because my brain has been busy ruminating all night, and, thus, further unconsciously reinforcing a sense of all-so convincing reasons wh...
Source: World of Psychology - March 5, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tracy Shawn, MA Tags: Anxiety and Panic Exercise & Fitness Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Source Type: blogs
