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Health & Fitness | Health News

New Study Shows a Leaky Gut Leads to an up to 30-Fold Risk of Autoimmunity

Leaky gut syndrome is more than a hyped-up passing health fad—it’s a formidable condition that could shape the rest of your life.

Health & Fitness | Health & Fitness

Gut Microbiome Plays Important Role in Sleep Regulation - Neuroscience News

Obstructive sleep apnea alters the gut microbiome in mice. Transplanting gut bacteria from mice with OSA to those without the disorder caused sleep disruptions.

Food & Drink | Recipes and Food Related

The Complete Bulletproof Guide to Gluten and Grains

Despite what you likely grew up hearing, grains are not the nutritional staple they’re claimed to be. Here's a breakdown of grains, gluten, and more.

Health & Fitness | Health News

Innovative New Method May Allow Doctors to Target ‘Bad’ Gut Microbes

Our body relies on an ecosystem of microbes in our stomach for good health. But when this microscopic community turns bad, our health suffers.

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

Smile For Your Stomach: Happiness May Guard Against Deadly Gut Infections - Study Finds

Researchers say that serotonin, the brain chemical responsible for feelings of happiness, may be able to prevent deadly stomach infections.

Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices

This Breathing Exercise Calms the Mind and Body | Dr. Dyan

This simple breathing exercise calms the mind and body. Research shows this helps depression, anxiety, pain and sleep through the gut to brain connection.

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

Stress, Inflammation and Microbes: A Moody Trinity | Psychology Today

Psychological stress affects your immune system and can make you moody and depressed. Fortunately, there are tricks to boost your resilience and make you feel better.

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

Parkinson’s May Begin in Gut and Spread to the Brain Via the Vagus Nerve

A major epidemiological registry-based study from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital indicates that Parkinson's disease begins in the gastrointestinal tract; the study is the largest in

Psychology | Parenting and Kids

Kids who get a half-hour of sunshine daily have significantly lower risk of IBD later in life

Here's another reason to get your kids outside every day: a new study finds that children who spend at least a half-hour a day in the sunshine have a significantly reduced risk for developing either inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) later in life.

Psychology | Personality

When to Trust Your Gut | Psychology Today

Intuition feels like magic. But we get our gut instincts through past experiences and the knowledge we have gathered. Hunches are great when they work, but it’s good to think twice.

Health & Fitness | Sleep

How Your Stomach Could Be Impacting Your Sleep | Psychology Today

We’ve learned a staggering amount about the microbiome and its relationship to sleep in recent years.

Psychology | Psychology & Psychological Research

Trusting Our Gut Instincts—Or Not  

Subtle, meaningless, and sometimes involuntary body movements can influence our actions and decisions, making our gut instinct less than trustworthy.

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

Study: Strawberries Improve Colon Health, Reduce IBD Symptoms - Study Finds

Strawberries are more than scrumptious. Researchers have found that eating just a few of them each day may improve gut health and relieve inflammation associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

The Key To A Long, Healthy Life Lies Within The Gut, Study Finds - Study Finds

The world of life deep within our bellies may hold the key to many happy, healthy years ahead. Experiments on fruit flies showed increased lifespan after the addition of probiotics and an herbal supplement.

Health & Fitness | Health News

New Research Reveals What Probiotics Do Inside Gut

Researchers have used invasive techniques to collect samples from inside the stomach and evaluate how well probiotics actually work.

Psychology | Personality

What do gut decisions reveal about us?

A new study compares the psychological effects of intuitive decisions based on the proverbial gut feeling with decisions made after careful deliberation.

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

Study on the Gut-Brain Connection Will Help Guide Therapies in Neurologic Diseases

New findings about how the gut impacts central nervous system resident cells in the brain will play a huge role in the advancement of therapies.

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

Will Probiotics Ever Live Up to the Hype? - The Atlantic

Changing your microbiome takes more than just swallowing a pill full of bacteria.

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

Is Yogurt Healthy? - The Atlantic

Several new studies suggest yogurt might reduce inflammation—a process linked to different types of diseases.

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

When Gut Bacteria Change Brain Function

Some researchers believe that the microbiome may play a role in regulating how people think and feel.

Health & Fitness | Health

Research on the Connection Between the Brain and Gut

The gut microbiome may also contribute to MS and Alzheimer’s disease.

Health & Fitness | Health News

GI-MAP™ | Diagnostic Solutions Laboratory

Diagnostic Solutions Laboratory is pleased to offer you the GI Microbial Assay Plus (GI-MAP). The GI-MAP includes the first comprehensive pathogens assay that is FDA approved, the GPP assay by Luminex Corp. The pathogen targets include bacteria, parasite

Family & Parenting | Family and Parenting

Managing Anxiety and Building Resilience in Kids: How Nutrition Can Help

The life-changing links between resilience, anxiety and nutrition, including common nutrient shortfalls and metabolic imbalances.

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Linked with Differences in Gut Bacteria

People with chronic fatigue syndrome may have imbalances in their gut bacteria, a new study suggests.

Health & Fitness | Sleep

#Stress Getting in the Way of Sleep? New Research Might Have the Answer

New research finds an easy way that can help to protect against stress and restore healthy sleep patterns after a stressful event.

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

#VagusNerve Stimulation Dramatically Reduces #Inflammation

There is growing evidence that stimulating the vagus nerve can improve well-being in many ways—including the reduction of chronic inflammation.

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

8 Food Sensitivities You Need To Know About

I have seen the healthiest foods flare up one person and yet be great food medicine for the next person. Here are the most common sensitivities you should know about.

Health & Fitness | Health News

How Your Gut Affects Your Mood

At any given moment, you have somewhere between 10 trillion and 100 trillion microorganisms inhabiting your gut — that’s more microbes in your bowels than ther…

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

Function of the Vagus Nerve

Human Beings have an Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) that is actually comprised of three separate subsystems, the Parasympathetic Nervous System (PNS), the Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS) and the Enteric Nervous System (ENS). The enteric nervous system ha

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

How Gut Bacteria Are Shaking Up Cancer Research - Bloomberg Business

Top scientists at Roche Holding AG and AstraZeneca Plc are sizing up potential allies in the fight against cancer: the trillions of bacteria that live in the human body.

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

Probiotics for Depression

A randomized controlled trial shows some promising results

Health & Fitness | Health News

The appendix – Darwin’s mistake

Our gut health is helped by this unfairly maligned small organ.

News | News Items

Our 'Second Brain' - And Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Mood

Hidden in the walls of our digestive system is something extraordinary. Scientists have known about the 'second brain' for a while, but new technology is taking the researc

Health & Fitness | Health & Fitness

How Probiotics May Ward Off Depression And Anxiety

In recent years, neuroscientists have become increasingly interested in the idea that there may be a powerful link between the human brain and gut bacteria. And while a growing body of research has pr

Health & Fitness | Health & Fitness

What Everyone Should Know About Inflammation: A Cardiologist Explains

Regular readers of MindBodyGreen are aware that a process in our bodies called inflammation is involved in many aspects of human health and disease. For example, you may have read that a breakfast of