Probiotics degrading gluten peptides - part 3

So: " 14 bacterial strains belonging to 32 species were isolated; 85 strains were able to grow in a medium containing gluten as the so...

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Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) as a risk factor for bipolar disorder

" Only irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) emerged as a risk factor for BD  [ bipolar disorder ]  supported by convincing evidence. " ...

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Intestinal dysbiosis, irritable bowel syndrome and ME/CFS

I don't want to spend too much time talking about yet another paper from the research tag-team that is Hornig & Lipkin [1] (open-ac...

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Recurrent antibiotic exposure and risk of depression and/or anxiety?

Accepting the notions that (i) correlation is not necessarily the same as causation and that (ii)  case-control observational studies  in pa...

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p-cresol and autism continued

In a post a while back ( see here ) I talked about the important, but sometimes confusing, research on a possible role for  p -cresol (4-met...

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Gut bacteria profiles in children with autism and asymptomatic siblings

The paper by Joshua Son and colleagues [1] ( open-access here ) made for some interesting reading recently and various findings including: ...

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ADHD and obesity meta-analysed

I was intrigued by the findings reported by Samuele Cortese and colleagues [1] who, following systematic review and meta-analysis of the c...

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