Category Dietary Frontiers

The gut mucosa hosts the body’s largest population of immune cells.This amazing animation, Immunology in the Gut Mucosa, was produced by Nature Immunology in collaboration with Arkitek Studios and helps unravel the complexities of mucosal immunology in health and disease.  

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People often ask me what is the best way to start a gut-healing diet. “From your weakest point,” I answer with a smile. It depends if your current weak link is your body, suffering distress that dictates immediate relief, or…

Back in 2013 we were asked to record our teen’s complete food intake over 4 random days. The information was used for a small analytical study at Seattle Children’s Hospital. We were pleased to learn that despite the fact that…

You probably think of yourself as a single entity, an independent navigator of your own life, think again! In reality, everything you think, feel, or do is affected by the intricate communication process between the multi-millions of microbes in and…

Leave it up to art to liberate us from polite inhibitions and allow us to talk about poop. These days, the microbiome is the hippest word in science. Published research has been documenting how our gut bacteria effects every aspect…