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In using advanced stool testing, we explain to patients how some bacteria in their colons can increase or decrease their risks of certain diseases.   This does not mean they will 100% get the disease but just have a greater chance than others of developing the disease.  Scientists have long known th...

As a follow up to this week’s post about augmenting our immune system against rotavirus, we look at another virus that appears to sometimes enter through our GI tract.  Researchers in China describe the presentations of children ultimately diagnosed with COVID 19 infection, but who did not show init...

As a follow up to this week’s post about augmenting our immune system against rotavirus, we look at bacteria which can improve a mouse’s chances against rotaviral infection.  Researchers from Georgia State University found that mice with a higher population of segmented filamentous bacteria were pro...

Initially the title sounds like a title for a bad horror film written by a biologist.  Creeping fat brings up images of the old “Blob” movies.  The reality is that scientists found a link between a gut bacteria moving through the intestinal walls of patients with autoimmune Crohn’s disease and a com...

  Traditional societies have long advocated for a central role of the GI tract in overall health including our immune defense.  Given that our GI tract encounters the highest concentration of immune changes daily in terms of toxins, microbes, and random chemicals, it makes sense.  The GI tract must ...