Tag Archives: Clinical Trials

Arthritis Microbiome & Gut Health: Diet

Summary:  Arthritis… Newly diagnosed with arthritis have an arthritis microbiome that is skewed having greater abundance of the intestinal bacteria Prevotella copri than people without the inflammatory disease, or those who have had the disease for a while but were managing it with treatment. Also found: nutrient deficiencies.  Diet can change up that microbiome.  Read on and learn.

One of the first insightful articles that expanded my understanding of the connection between gut microbiome, dietary impact, and arthritis, was “The Boy With a Thorn in His Joints,” New York Times Magazine, February 2001.  Anywhere from 0.5 to 1 percent of the general population is estimated to have the condition, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  If you are a reader of my work, you now know however, it isn’t just arthritis that the gut biome affects; literally all health and disease is affected by the gut microbiome, specifically the community of species present.

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FEED YOUR MICROBIOME TO MANAGE AUTISM

Microbiome and autism…  Feeding your gut microbiome could exacerbate, or modulate, autism symptoms.  That understanding is incredibly empowering to those that must manage autism!

It is now undisputed that the gut microbiome differs in autism compared to healthy controls:

“At the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology held in May in Boston, researchers at Arizona State University reported the results of an experiment in which they measured the levels of various microbial by-products in the feces of children with autism and compared them with those found in healthy children. The levels of 50 of these substances, they found, significantly differed between the two groups. And in a 2013 study published in PLOS ONE, Italian researchers reported that, compared with healthy kids, those with autism had altered levels of several intestinal bacterial species, including fewer Bifidobacterium, a group known to promote good intestinal health.”  “Gut Bacteria May Play a Role in Autism”, Scientific American, Aug 2014.  

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SCD Managing IBD, RUSH Medical Center

SCD managing IBD is nothing new.   RUSH University Medical Center, Chicago is one facility that extensively studies SCD and IBD.

I am now aware of two studies RUSH  intends to publish by the end of 2014. The first is to identify “characteristics common for those for whom SCD works to manage IBD.”  My contact was not allowed to share at this time what the second study’s content will be.

RUSH is not alone however in the study of SCD and IBD; I have written extensively on the science of SCD success here:

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MICROBIOME RULES; WHAT IS MICROBIOME?

SUMMARY:  Your gut microbiome allows you to live your life with health, wellness, and vitality, or illness and disease.  Without a doubt, the MICROBIOME RULES; WHAT IS MICROBIOME?

If you haven’t already done so, you should read the post, “Diet and other things Determines Our Microbiome” to be certain you are up to date not only with what this dynamic virtual organ is, but also are cognizant of the many factors that affect the microbiome.  
We can modulate this microbiome; the science is exploding daily with research that is unveiling the vast impact the gut microbiome has on all of our inner workings.
FOOD ALTERS THE MICROBIOME, with a focus here on celiac and autism, although the insight applies to all autoimmunes and chronic disease.

The post “Food Managing Autism and IBD: The Studies,” details the studies (and includes current ongoing clinical trials) showing dietary intervention (that heals the gut) can result in IBD remission or management of autism.  Such occurs through optimization of the microbiome since the food we feed the microbiome, determines the gut’s community of microbiota, whose role is to affect immunity, health, wellness, and vitality.  Thus, anyone looking to improve health needs to look first at optimizing the gut microbiome.

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