Linoleic acid is an essential fatty acid. People carrying different variants of the FADS1 gene had a different inflammatory response and different changes in their fasting glucose levels when supplementing their diet by linoleic acid […]
Diet appears to be a major factor that influences the composition of the human gut microbiota. Dietary proteins are first digested in the small intestine by human digestive enzymes, but about 10–12% reach the large […]
Inflammation, which is the root cause of autoimmune disorders including arthritis, type 1 diabetes, irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn’s disease, has unexpected effects on body clock function and can lead to sleep and shiftwork-type disorders, […]
Endometriosis is an estrogen-dependent pelvic inflammatory disease characterized by implantation and growth of endometrial tissue (glands and stroma) outside the uterine cavity. It affects approximately 10-15% of women of reproductive age. The most common symptoms […]
New research, published in the journal Nature Communications, shows how our diet affects bacteria in our gut, which, in turn, can alter the behavior of our genes and the risk of cancer. The good bacteria […]
The Autoimmune Protocol Diet (AIP) is a new type of diet regimen designed to help reduce inflammation in the body to alleviate the symptoms of autoimmune diseases. An autoimmune disease is a condition in which […]
Classical galactosemia (GASM) is one of the most common innate errors in metabolism identified by neonatal screening in the United States. Galactosemia is the result of a profound deficiency of galactose-1-P uridyltransferase (GALT; Isselbacher et […]
Bodily pH and general homeostasis The pH in our body can vary considerably from one area to another with the highest acidity in the stomach (pH 1.35-3.5) to aid in digestion and protect against opportunistic […]
Osteoarthritis is the most common version of arthritis and affects millions of people around the world, including about 30 million people in the United States alone. The condition is characterized by the slow breaking of […]
Very recently, it has been recognized that the bacterial flora of the human gut plays a major role in health and in the appearance of diseases such as obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Although many […]
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