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Gut bacteria and a diet rich in the amino acid tryptophan can play a protective role against pathogenic E. coli, which can cause severe stomach upset, cramps, fever, intestinal bleeding and renal failure, according to a study published March 13 in Nature. The research reveals how dietary tryptophan – an amino acid found mostly in …
According to a study published in the journal BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, a natural compound found within the spice turmeric may be as effective as the medication called omeprazole which is used to curb excess stomach acid for treating indigestion symptoms. In addition to being used in traditional Ayurvedic Medicine in various remedies including indigestion, turmeric …
A team of University of British Columbia researchers working on developing oral insulin tablets as a replacement for daily insulin injections have made a game-changing discovery. Researchers have discovered that insulin from the latest version of their oral tablets is absorbed by rats in the same way that injected insulin is. “These exciting results show …
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have definitively linked the function of a specific domain of proteins important in plant-microbe biology to a cancer trigger in humans, knowledge that had eluded scientists for decades. The team’s findings, published in Nature Communications Biology, open up a new avenue for the development of …
The research, published in the American Journal of Physiology, led by Ph.D. student Zahra Aghababaie and her supervisor Dr. Tim Angeli-Gordon, demonstrates a new technique for the potential treatment of disorders of gastric function – ablation therapy, which is usually used to correct an abnormally beating heart. Zahra created the artwork used on the cover …
When dieting and exercise aren’t enough, weight-loss surgery can be an effective obesity treatment. But people who don’t want surgery have other options, including insertion of an appetite-suppressing balloon or other implant in the stomach. Now, researchers report in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces that they have augmented that procedure in laboratory animals by coating …
Exposure to the heavy metal cadmium is known to irritate the stomach and lungs or cause kidney disease, but new research links another health issue to inadvertently ingesting low doses of the pollutant: high activation of the antibodies that cause an allergic response. Researchers traced this link in mice to gut bacteria that, after exposure …
As per the statistics revealed by Gallup, “1 in 7 Americans reported the use of CBD products. The number of consumers of CBD products has escalated since federal law legalized cannabidiol items. Such products became famous when the awareness about their positive effect unfurled among the population. This research also found out the reason behind …
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health determined that stomach inflammation is regulated differently in male and female mice after finding that androgens, or male sex hormones, play a critical role in preventing inflammation in the stomach. The finding suggests that physicians could consider treating male patients with stomach inflammation differently than female patients with …
Texas A&M University researchers suggest that they have developed a small wireless device that may potentially help a person fight obesity and lose weight by stimulating nerve endings. In the report published in Nature Communications, the team describes how their medical device that requires a simpler operative procedure for implantation might help with weight loss. …