A fascinating article in the New York Times ten days ago, pointed out to me by John Scott. Andrew Pollack investigates a rapidly growing industry turning excess breast milk into a high protein product to be fed to extremely premature babies, with the possibility of its uses …
Crohn's disease
FMTs (otherwise known as poo) to be treated as a drug
Over the past several years there has been a growing interest in Fecal Microbiota Transplantation – the 'transplantation' of healthy-bacteria-filled faeces from a well person's gut into the guts of those suffering from a range of inflammatory digestive and bowel conditions whose …
Experience is vital to understanding
Many of you will have read about Clare's predicament either here in my blog or on the FoodsMatter site. Clare suffers from almost total food intolerance – she is now reduced to about four foods, including venison and swede – that she can just about tolerate, has lost over four …
And we think we’ve got problems….
I thought, when we put Caleigh (the Gluten Freek)'s story up on the sites, that as short dietary straws go, she had drawn one of the shortest. (Caleigh has suffered from Crohn's disease since she was a teenager and five years ago, joined a mercifully select band of only 600 …