Featured Topics: Digestive Health
Changing Your Diet Can Help with Reflux Disease – Informed Opinion
Written by Dr. Patrick Massey, MD, PhD. Changing to a vegetable-based diet and taking certain supplements, herbs and therapies can reduce or eliminate the need for proton pump inhibitor medications for GERD. One of the more common medical conditions in the...
Curcumin Found to Benefit Crohn’s Patients
Written by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS. Treatment with curcumin was shown to result in significant improvements of symptoms related to ulcerative colitis. Ulcerative colitis is an inflammatory bowel disease that causes long-lasting inflammation and ulcers in the digestive...
Artificial Sweetener Aspartame Influences Gut Microbial Composition
Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. Using a mouse model, researchers demonstrated that aspartame (known as NutraSweet and Equal) impaired glucose metabolism by altering gut composition and promoting hyperglycemia and insulin resistance. Aspartame (APM) is...
Turmeric Essential Oils for the Treatment of Colitis
Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. In a mouse model of ulcerative colitis, a combination of turmeric essential oils and curcumin significantly decreased disease severity compared to controls. In the field of complementary medicine, curcumin, the most active...
Sugar Additive May Cause Bowel Issues – Informed Opinion
Written by Patrick B. Massey, MD, PH.D. Trehalose, a simple sugar commonly added to processed foods, may stimulate a specific bowel bacterium, Clostridium difficile to become more virulent. Trehalose is a simple sugar commonly added to many processed foods. On the...
The Effects of Exercise on Gut Microbiota in Lean and Obese Participants
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. Exercise significantly altered the composition of gut microbiota in lean participants, and in particular, increased the butyrate-producing microbiota, the levels of which were not sustainable once exercising ceased. Two very recent studies,...
Alkaline Water, Along With a Mediterranean Diet, May Help Symptoms of Laryngopharyngeal Reflux Disease
Written by Angeline A. De Leon, Staff Writer. Of the 184 patients with laryngopharyngeal reflux disease, those on a plant-based Mediterranean-style diet and alkaline water had symptom reduction equal to or better than those who were on a proton pump inhibitor after 6...
Coconut Oil Destroys Gut Overgrowth of Candida albicans
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. This study demonstrates how dietary coconut significantly decreased colonization of Candida albicans by altering the metabolic gene expression of the C. albicans cells. Candida albicans is part of the normal gut flora; however, when immune...
Do Whole Grain Diets Change Our Gut Microbiome?
Written by Joyce Smith, BS. A whole grain diet, compared with a refined grain diet, significantly reduced body weight, energy intake, fat-free mass, plasma leptin, inflammatory marker CPR, and proinflammatory cytokines IL6 and IL1ß but had no effect on insulin...
‘Leaky Gut’ Impacts Other Medical Conditions, Including Migraines – Informed Opinion
Written by Dr. Patrick Massey, MD, PhD. Pathological gut bacteria are associated with “leaky gut, and many chronic illnesses such as” migraine headaches, diabetes, obesity, inflammatory bowel disease and asthma/allergies. One area of controversy between traditional...
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