Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, January 26, 2022 4:09 PM Tuerk gave a detailed presentation on the city's finances and highlighted what he said were the seven top city issued he identified throughout his campaign and transition into... |
Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, January 26, 2022 4:09 PM Investigators said they are looking for the person who provided over 100 bags of fentanyl to a teen who overdosed and died. |
Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, January 26, 2022 3:29 PM The number of infected children, according to Moscow city health officials, rose 14 times in the past two weeks from 2,000 to 28,000. |
Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, January 26, 2022 3:15 PM The Anne Arundel County Department of Health has partnered with the Anne Arundel County Public Library system to distribute free KN95 and N95 face masks to residents at local... |
Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, January 26, 2022 3:01 PM Numbers just released by Iowa Department of Public Health show new COVID-19 cases and hospitalization are down. |
Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, January 26, 2022 2:47 PM The COVID-19 booster drive in the U.S. is losing steam, worrying health experts who have pleaded with Americans to get an extra shot to shore up their protection against the... |
Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, January 26, 2022 2:39 PM The governor will be joined by Department of Health deputy secretary Dr. Kenneth Scheppke. |
Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, January 26, 2022 2:23 PM Health systems across the region are feeling the strain of a rapid rise in cases and hospitalisations linked to Omicron. |
Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, January 26, 2022 2:15 PM Minnesota's DFL legislators and Gov. Tim Walz also plan to outline plans for health and safety-focused legislation Wednesday. |
Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, January 26, 2022 2:09 PM Enhanced medical benefits, police training, alternative sentencing and outpatient treatments are all being considered. |
WebMD Health Wednesday, January 26, 2022 4:36 PM The new study of more than 10 million U.S. military personnel found the risk of developing MS shot up 32-fold after infection with Epstein-Barr, best known for causing mononucleois, |
WebMD Health Wednesday, January 26, 2022 2:26 PM After losing her daughter, a mother aims to find a cause behind sudden unexplained death in childhood. |
WebMD Health Wednesday, January 26, 2022 1:11 PM A new study finds most people with asthma still use them in public places during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
WebMD Health Wednesday, January 26, 2022 1:10 PM A small pilot study suggests that an injection of a patient's own fat cells can help ease the often-excruciating heel pain brought on by a condition known as plantar fasciitis. |
WebMD Health Wednesday, January 26, 2022 1:04 PM If you think you need to add to your diet with supplements, make sure you're doing it with the proper guidance. |
Mark's Daily Apple Wednesday, January 26, 2022 12:03 PM "You should take probiotics." "I heard probiotics are good for you." "Oh, probiotics are so, so important." Yes, yes. These are all true statements. But they are broad. Which probiotics? Which strains for what purpose? Simply saying "probiotics" tells us very little about what we're supposed to be taking. It's like saying "You should eat food." Technically accurate yet operationally useless. Today I'm going to rectify that. I'm going to describe the best probiotic strains for each desired purpose, because there is no single strain to rule them all. The probiotic strain that's best for anxiety may not be the best probiotic strain for allergies, and so on. Of course, these aren't the final word. What follows is the best available evidence as it exists today. That may change tomorrow. And it will certainly change based on your individual makeup. With all that in mind, let's get right down to it. Instantly download your Guide to Gut Health Best Probiotic for Anxiety The existence of the gut-brain axis — that mysterious thoroughfare running from the gut to the brain and back again — and the presence and even production of neurotransmitters along the gut suggests that "gut feelings" describe real phenomena. Mental and gut health are strongly linked, and it's most likely a bi-directional relationship where each affect the other. You know this already, though, don't you? We've all felt fear or discomfort in our guts. We've all had instinctual responses to certain people that seemed to manifest in our stomachs (and later be proven). These are real. They aren't figments of our imagination. For instance, we know that some strains of gut bacteria can produce GABA, the "chill-out" neurotransmitter responsible for sleep and relaxation. We know that feeding prebiotics (bacteria food) to people can lower their cortisol and induce them to focus on positive stimuli instead of negative stimuli. We know that the greater the intake of fermented food like yogurt, kefir, kimchi, or sauerkraut, the lower the incidence of social anxiety. The best candidate for anxiety is Lactobacillus rhamnosus. Although no human anxiety studies for this strain exist (yet), there are plenty of animal studies that support it. One notable paper found that dosing mice with L. rhamnosus increased cortical expression of GABA genes and reduced cortisol and anxiety-like behaviors. Best Probiotic for IBS Irritable bowel syndrome is, well, irritating. Even more irritating is the fact that it describes a confluence of symptoms rather than a specific disease; two people, each with "IBS," can have disorders with completely different etiologies. This complicates the probiotic you choose. In one study, IBS patients who took a combo of Saccharomyces boulardii, Bifidobacterium lactis, Lactobacillus acidophilus, and Lactobacillus plantarum saw a 73% improvement in symptoms—but only if they also had small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO). IBS patients without SIBO only had a 10% improvement. (Side note: since gastro-esophageal reflux disease, or GERD, usually presents with SIBO, there's a good chance that this lineup of strains could also help there) Another paper, a meta-analysis from … Continue reading "What Are the Best Probiotic Strains?" The post What Are the Best Probiotic Strains? appeared first on Mark's Daily Apple. |
