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or even a misuse of resources in today’s world of packaged foods and triple-washed produce, it makes ...

becomes less effective at spotting invaders, but sometimes mistakenly attacks the body’s own cells. This is be ...

many of the more positive interactions that we would have had with rogue bacteria. Such interaction ...

response, as it does for a significant portion of the population. Gliadin, one of the main ...

to healthy controls.^16 In fact, other autoimmune conditions (including type 1 diabetes and multiple ...

your immune system might end up attacking your own body, and voilà—autoimmunity develops. Protecting Our B ...

of the time. However, exposure to potentially dangerous bacteria, especially in the small intestin ...

celiac disease, is credited with having discovered this important mediator of gut permeability.) This ...

adaptive strategy on the part of our biology to aid in survival. Major depression may be a ...

better? Researchers at Columbia University recently asked this very question, and studied patients ...

original Turkish name! While many believe probiotics are helpful because they take up domicile in the gut, t ...

Before we close out this section on our glorious gut barrier, it’s important to note that ...

have been found to induce “leaky gut” and inflammation.^31 Processed food additives. More on this in ...

Keeping the mucus layer healthy and robust is a major mechanism through which we can minimize inflammation in ...

can study cell division by looking at yeast, for example. We can study the way a human neuron works by l ...

It may be that a “one-two punch” is required to initiate an inflammatory process—first the erosion ...

make you sick) that are kept under control by the community at large. THE POTENT POWER OF P ...

and Mary and University of Maryland study. Groundbreaking research out of Iran suggests that probiotics ...

has suggested that overweight people have more Firmicutes than Bacteroidetes (or Capulets than Mont ...

women with a higher proportion of Bacteroides, another common type of gut bacteria, were much le ...