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    Allergy study on 'wild' mice challenges the hygiene hypothesis

    That's probably because pathogens compete with the natural microbiome, and in some cases, they win in small ways, even if the host/infected isnt killed by the infection, some of the good microbes may have died off in the battle, never to return. Allergy study on 'wild' mice challenges the...
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    AI could run a million microbial experiments per year

    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/05/230504155641.htm
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    Ubiome Co-founders charged with Federal Securities, Health Care fraud Conspiracies.

    This news article was over a year ago, but I was interested in what happened to the Company. " According to the indictment, Apte, 36, and Richman, 46, both of whom resided in San Francisco at relevant times, co-founded uBiome in October 2012. Initially, uBiome offered a direct-to-consumer...
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    Gut microbiota diversity and C-Reactive Protein are predictors of disease severity in COVID-19 patients

    https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.20.440658v1.full
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    Trained GI goes alternative in her own microbiome awakening.

    She is a real doctor who changed the way she treated patients after examining the GI tract of an IBD patient who used diet to control the disease without drugs as well as having a microbiome "awakening" after observing her own daughters health issues and problems with antibiotics being over...
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    Gastrointestinal Surgery for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Persistently Lowers Microbiome and Metabolome Diversity

    Gastrointestinal Surgery for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Persistently Lowers Microbiome and Metabolome Diversity Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, izaa262, https://doi.org/10.1093/ibd/izaa262 Published: 07 October 2020 Abstract Background Many studies have investigated the role of the microbiome...
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    Study shows high dose vitamin d achieves remission.

    Study shows high dose vitamin d achieves remission in Crohn's. This is from 2013, but it's pretty useful information. The dose needed for most crohn's patients was 5000iu per day. The goal was to achieve 40-60ng serum levels and see what happens, almost all of them achieved remission...
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    Laxative Causes Long-Term Changes to Mouse Microbiome

    https://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/54851/title/Laxative-Causes-Long-Term-Changes-to-Mouse-Microbiome/
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    Big data from world's largest citizen science microbiome project serves food for thought

    https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-05-big-world-largest-citizen-science.html
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    Determinants of IBD Heritability: Genes, Bugs, and More

    A recent publication that's seems very thorough on the causes of IBD, April 26, 2018. https://academic.oup.com/ibdjournal/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ibd/izy085/4986996
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    Phages being explored for IBD therapy

    phages are supposedly viruses the can target specific bacteria, but they are using this to eliminate pathogens in IBD. My opinion is that it could be helpful as a treatment but it may not be a cure like Fecal Microbiota Transplant might provide. https://labiotech.eu/phages-modulating-microbiome/
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    Antimicrobial food additives influence the composition of human gut microbiota

    When you consider studies show proteobacteria are higher in crohn's it makes you wonder if preservatives in the food supply are also contributing to the development of IBD. This study tested sodium benzoate, sodium nitrite, potassium sorbate(a form of sorbic acid) and sodium sulfite...
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    Video about woman using marijuana to treat her crohn's, then thrown in jail.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdK6CiKnFwI
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    Repeated mild food poisoning may trigger some cases of IBD.

    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171221143041.htm
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    Study on Crohn's ages 3-17 recruiting in Hamilton, Ontario, using Fecal Transplant pills.

    https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03378167 If you haven't yet learned about the role of the microbiome in relation to IBD, or Fecal microbiota transplants(FMT), they are very promising. Some people seemed to have been cured but that cant be promised to everyone yet until more...
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    Emulsifiers in most Supplements, a warning.

    Since learning about how emulsifiers can feed bad bacteria in the gut and contribute to dysbiosis from recent studies, I also noticed that many supplements manufacturers put these previously regarded safe substances in their products, and its hard to find a supplement that doesn't use them. As...
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    Food-grade titanium dioxide exposure exacerbates tumor formation in colitis associated cancer model.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27117919 Food Chem Toxicol. 2016 Jul;93:20-31. doi: 10.1016/j.fct.2016.04.014. Epub 2016 Apr 23. Food-grade titanium dioxide exposure exacerbates tumor formation in colitis associated cancer model. Urrutia-Ortega IM1, Garduño-Balderas LG2...
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    ‘Young poo’ makes aged fish live longer

    ‘Young poo’ makes aged fish live longer Well it's a fish but it makes you wonder right? http://www.nature.com/news/young-poo-makes-aged-fish-live-longer-1.21770
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    Study says brown rice 1x per week lowers colon cancer risk by 40%

    So I'm thinking if we eat it everyday will never develop colon cancer!! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25093007
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    Eggshell membrane ameliorates intestinal inflammation

    Eggshell membrane powder ameliorates intestinal inflammation by facilitating the restitution of epithelial injury and alleviating microbial dysbiosis http://www.nature.com/articles/srep43993 You can get this in a supplement...
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