In a recent BSACI on line symposium Professor Stephen Holgate called for urgent action to tackle the environmental causes of the global explosion in allergy cases: the loss of biodiversity, pollution, diet and urbanisation. This followed on from his keynote speech at the two day …
Microbiome
Hidden healers – parasitic worms?
Long time readers of this blog will be familiar with helminthic therapy, the life changing re-infection with parasitic worms championed by John Scott, a subscriber to the original FoodsMatter magazine. John wrote to us about an article we were carrying on hypoallergenic baby …
The Gut-Brain Axis
How gut microbes talk to the brain - with thanks to Professor Ted Dinan whose fascinating slide I have borrowed to illustrate the theme of the webinar. An excellent webinar organised by Yakult in its quest to educate us all about our guts and the importance of feeding them …