Targeted Editing of Gut Microbe Populates Reduces Intestinal Cancer Incidence
The gut microbiome is influential on the progression of health, perhaps to a similar degree as regular moderate exercise. Age-related changes in these microbial populations can promote chronic inflammation and tissue dysfunction, though the direction of causation is still up for debate when it comes to many of the details of the relationship between tissue and immune issues in the intestine and an altered gut microbiome. Nonetheless, less desirable microbes undertake activities that can raise the risk of cancer resulting from inflammation of the intestines, occurring in conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease. Resear...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 12, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Kratom: Fear-worthy foliage or beneficial botanical?
Depending on what you read, kratom is a dangerous, addictive drug with no medical utility and severe side effects, including overdose and death, or it is an accessible pathway out of undertreated chronic pain and opiate withdrawal. How can the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), medical professionals, and millions of regular kratom users have such divergent views of the same plant?
What is kratom?
Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) is a tropical tree from the coffee family native to Southeast Asia, with properties that range from stimulant-like, energizing and uplifting, to opiate-like, causing drowsiness and euphoria. Kratom has d...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - August 7, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Peter Grinspoon, MD Tags: Addiction Pain Management Vitamins and supplements Source Type: blogs
Changes in the Gut Microbiome as the Cause of Inflammation and Oxidative Stress Leading to Vascular Dysfunction
Chronic inflammation and oxidative stress disrupt the function of smooth muscle cells in blood vessel walls. This is one of the contributing causes of vascular stiffness with age, alongside cross-links, calcification, and loss of elastin, all of which alter the structural properties of blood vessel tissue to produce a reduction in elasticity. There is the question of the relative importance of these contributions, a question that exists for most aspects of aging at the present time, lacking easy ways to remove only one contributing factor to assess the outcome. Nonetheless, the research results noted here suggest that smoo...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 22, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 67 | uBiome, Planned Parenthood and Lively
On Episode 67 of Health in 2 Point 00, Jess is appalled at the CDC’s salmonella warning for hedgehogs. But in other news, Jess asks me about uBiome, which has raised over $100 million, laying off over 50 people; Planned Parenthood’s new chatbot that helps answer teenagers’ questions about sexual health; and Lively’s recent $16 million raise for their telehealth hearing assessment platform. Don’t forget to stop by our booth at HIMSS in 2 weeks! —Matthew Holt (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 30, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health in 2 point 00 Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt chatbot Health Tech hearing aids Planned Parenthood Sexual Health Telehealth Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 261
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday! Time to GUESS THE DISEASE challenge for Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 261
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 30, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: FFFF antiphospholipid syndrome APS Benjamin Sacks Catastrophic APS Cyclophosphamide Emanuel Libman endocarditis Glucocorticoids IVIG Libman-Sacks endocarditis Livedo reticularis plasma exchange Salmonella shrinking lung syndrom Source Type: blogs
Obama, Prince Harry, Angelina: Celebrities As Health Influencers
Beloved Hollywood celebrities, famous politicians or members of the British royal family: no better advertisement for fitness tracker producers and health tech companies. As models, actors and actresses are highly influential people, their early adoption of digital solutions could also push the masses towards living more healthily with technologies. On the other hand, celebrities are inclined to follow questionable health trends, too, which go against decades of medical evidence. Those examples, everyone should rather reject.
Wearables conquered Hollywood, the White House, and the British royal family
Celebrities are all a...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 15, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Social media in Healthcare celebrities digital health digital technologies digital technology famous fitness future health influencer health influencers Hollywood trackers trends wearables wellness Source Type: blogs
Your Gut Bacteria Get Jet Lag Too
Many processes in our bodies are orchestrated on a ~24 hour schedule called the circadian rhythm. Body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, the immune system, melatonin and other hormones, alertness and sleepiness, and much more, rise and fall over the course of a day timed by our internal clock.
When we travel between time zones faster than our internal clock can adjust, we experience jet lag. Our internal clock is out of sync with local time. We notice this with difficulty being alert during the day and difficulty sleeping at night. We might not notice it, but our physical and mental performance may be impaired as we...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - November 13, 2018 Category: Child Development Authors: Dr. Alan Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Jet Lag Microbiome Source Type: blogs
Your Gut Bacteria Get Jet Lag Too
Many processes in our bodies are orchestrated on a ~24 hour schedule called the circadian rhythm. Body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, the immune system, melatonin and other hormones, alertness and sleepiness, and much more, rise and fall over the course of a day timed by our internal clock.
When we travel between time zones faster than our internal clock can adjust, we experience jet lag. Our internal clock is out of sync with local time. We notice this with difficulty being alert during the day and difficulty sleeping at night. We might not notice it, but our physical and mental performance may be impaired as we...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - November 13, 2018 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Jet Lag Microbiome Source Type: blogs
To help restore healthy bowel flora, eat no GMOs
One of the most potentially harmful aspects of genetically-modified crops, or GMOs, are that such crops are often engineered to be resistant to specific herbicides or pesticides. A farmer therefore can spray an herbicide to kill weeds, while the GM crop plant survives. But it means that the plant now has herbicide residues in it. Or it may contain its own built-in pesticide such as Bt toxin, expressed by the plant because the gene for this pest-resistant compound has been spliced into the plant’s genetic code. So GMO crops pose a double-whammy: the crop itself with new genetically-programmed components, especially pr...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 29, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates dysbiosis Inflammation prebiotic probiotic sibo small intestinal bacterial overgrowth wheat belly Source Type: blogs
What happened to the grasshoppers?
When I was a kid, grasshoppers were everywhere. I walked through a field every day to get to school and grasshoppers were everywhere, jumping back and forth across my path, frequently banging off my legs. At night in summer, the backyard was filled with fireflies that we’d chase and capture in jars to watch up close. And there were butterflies of many colors and varieties everywhere, flitting from flower to flower.
Today, I don’t see any grasshoppers. In fact, I haven’t seen one in over 40 years. I saw one—just one—firefly this past summer in my backyard. And I can count the number of butterie...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 22, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Agribusiness bowel flora Inflammation microbiota prebiotic probiotic wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Fever, Abdominal pain, Constipation and Mary
aka Tropical Travel Trouble 012 A 30 year old chef presented to ED with a history of 6 days of fevers and rigors. He returned from Bangladesh one week ago where he was visiting family for 2 weeks. He had a mild headache and neck pain and some intermittent lower abdominal pain. He has had no ...
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 8, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Clinical Cases Infectious Disease Tropical Medicine Mary Mallon Salmonella Typhi Typhoid Typhoid Mary Source Type: blogs
Tropical Travel Trouble 009 Humongous HIV Extravaganza
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The diagnosis of HIV is no longer fatal and the term AIDS is becoming less frequent. In many countries, people with HIV are living longer than those with diabetes. This post will hopefully teach the basics of a complex disease and demystify some of the potential diseases you need to consider in those who are severely immunosuppressed. While trying to be comprehensive this post can not be exhaustive (as you can imagine any patient with a low ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 7, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Amanda McConnell Tags: Clinical Cases Tropical Medicine AIDS art cryptococcoma cryptococcus HIV HIV1 HIV2 PEP PrEP TB toxoplasma tuberculoma Source Type: blogs
Food items we should avoid “ like the plague ” …
I just read a very interesting interview with/article about a food poisoning lawyer (imagine that…!!!) who shares his knowledge about food, potentially contaminated food. And some of it isn’t so obvious.
That is why I’m posting the link to the article, as a warning/reminder to those of us who have weakened immune systems: goo.gl/NG3oty
I never buy prepackaged (washed? Hah!) salad, e.g., or anything that has been cut and washed by others. I never go near salad bars, no matter how clean the restaurant looks. Bacteria bacteria bacteria! Better be safe than sorry…
After my SMM diagnosis, I began growin...
Source: Margaret's Corner - June 24, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll food poisoning sprouts Source Type: blogs
The unique probiotic effects of L. reuteri
We’ve lately been discussing (some would say obsessing) about the unique benefits of consuming the microorganism Lactobacillus reuteri, specifically the ATCC PTA 6475 and DSM 17938 strains (available from Swedish company, BioGaia, as the Gastrus product). Benefits such as increased skin thickness, dramatically increased dermal collagen, accelerated healing, reduced inflammation, preservation or increased bone density, turning off appetite, increased empathy, facilitation of fasting, increased libido, etc. are all mediated via L. reuteri’s unusual capacity to stimulate oxytocin release from the hypothalamus. S...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 22, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates acid reflux Inflammation lactobacillus oxytocin probiotic reuteri Source Type: blogs
