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Gut and Immunity
How much of immune behaviour is decided in the gut?
The gut as an immune organ: barrier function, the microbiome, and inflammation as a signal to read.
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Newest · Gut and ImmunityZonulin and leaky gut: what the test can showThe gut barrier is real, measurable and well studied. The popular blood marker for it is the weakest part of the story.
Gut and ImmunityWhy fibre works even though you cannot digest itHumans make no enzyme that can open the bonds in most plant fibre. By the strict logic of nutrition that…
Gut and ImmunityLeaky gut: what is real and what is being soldSearch the term and you land in one of two internets: a failing barrier that explains fatigue, eczema and low…
Gut and ImmunityFood reactions: what the tests mean and what they do notIt starts with two foods. Eighteen months on, the list runs to nineteen items and the reactions have not stopped.…
Gut and ImmunityGut and brain: five channels, and the serotonin claimMost of the body's serotonin is made in the gut, not the brain. It is true, and it is one…
Gut and ImmunityWhy most of your immune system sits around the gutThe largest concentration of immune tissue in the body sits packed around the gut, one cell layer away from everything…Foundations free
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