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Does Keto Affect Your Gut Health?
By depriving your body of carbs — your primary energy source — you’re forced to start burning fat instead. The keto diet has been shown to benefit cholesterol levels, blood sugar control, weight loss, and brain health (1Trusted Source). Still, you might wonder whether this diet can affect other aspects of your health, including digestion […]
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Crohn’s Disease Remission with a Plant-Based Diet: A Case Report
In November 2014, a 25-year-old-male presented to the Department of Gastroenterology at a secondary care facility after having experienced several months of weight loss, diarrhea, and flu-like symptoms. He had a past medical history of peri-anal abscess and was on no prescribed or over-the-counter medications. He was a non-smoker. Ileo-colonoscopy demonstrated moderately inflamed mucosa with […]
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Crippling anxiety, Crohn’s disease and utter despair (audio)
Breaking Badly; How I Worried Myself Sick is her story. She has a candid chat with Patricia in the Drawing Room. Listen to interview at https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drawingroom/georgie-dent/11229030
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New study helps develop treatments targeting inflammation without affecting gut function
A new Crick-led study in Immunity has characterized these distinct populations, which could help scientists to develop treatments targeting inflammation while preserving healthy gut function. These two populations are akin to worker and soldier ants, playing different roles depending on their context. The ‘worker ant’ population of immune cells is found naturally in the gut and helps […]
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Mass cytometry distinguishes between Crohn’s disease and Ulcerative colitis
CD and UC can be distinguished clinically by disease location (UC is restricted to the colon, while CD can involve any part of the gastrointestinal tract) and disease phenotype (stricturing or penetrating can indicate CD), using endoscopy and imaging5. However, gathering this information can be invasive and costly, and still up to 20% of IBD […]
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Inflammatory bowel disease and type I diabetes increase chances of developing rheumatoid arthritis
RA is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects the joints, causing pain and disability. It can also affect internal organs. RA is more common in older people, but there is also a high prevalence in young adults, adolescents and even children, and it affects women more frequently than men. IBD is an umbrella term used […]
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Cannabis use in inflammatory bowel disease: new surveys announced
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is an umbrella term describing chronic and relapsing inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, including ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. Affected individuals experience abdominal pain, weight loss, diarrhoea and bleeding with a high risk of developing colorectal and small bowel cancers. It is a debilitating condition that often significantly affects a […]
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A single gut enterotype linked to both inflammatory bowel disease and depression
In 2012, Professor Jeroen Raes (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology) launched the Flemish Gut Flora Project. Sequencing fecal samples of over 3,000 healthy volunteers, Prof. Raes and his team defined the boundaries of a normal, health-associated gut microbiota. Next, the team turned to patient groups to identify microbiome alterations associated with diseases. Recently, they described […]
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Possible targets to help tackle Crohn’s disease
The research has focused on different types of cells called macrophages, which are part of our immune system and are found in most tissues, where they patrol for potential harmful organisms and destroy them. In inflammatory diseases, like Crohn’s, macrophages mediate the inflammatory destruction of the gut. Just how the tissue reacts (inflammation or suppression) […]
Personal Story
Illness can morph you without your consent
When I was first diagnosed, I was told that Crohn’s disease was chronic. I looked that word up. Chronic: “Persisting for a long time or constantly recurring.” I shrugged, “No big deal” I thought. The idea of a long time didn’t compute when I was in my early twenties. Because “a long time” doesn’t really […]
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NewsDoes Keto Affect Your Gut Health?
The ketogenic diet is a popular eating plan that involves significantly cutting carbs while increasing your intake of heart-healthy fats. -
NewsCrohn’s Disease Remission with a Plant-Based Diet: A Case Report
Plant-based dietary therapies may have utility in both the treatment of acute CD flares and the maintenance of remission. -
NewsCrippling anxiety, Crohn’s disease and utter despair (audio)
At 25, Georgie Dent had the world at her feet and no right to break but within a year she was unemployed and suffering such crippling anxiety that she ended up in a psychiatric hospital.
