Lived experience of IBS: Focus on Dietary Mx:
😣 Food triggers in IBS can be complex.
📬 Refer to dietitian (RD) when food implicated in symptoms.
🔻Low-FODMAP diet: restriction / re-challenge & personalisation - more effective when delivered by RD.
📚 https://t.co/r8TK580r6n
The key to gut health: PLANT DIVERSITY! 🍇 🍏 🥑 🍄 🥜 🥕 🥝 🥦🍠 🌰 🍓
My top tip for looking after your gut health: aim for 30 plant points a week!
Here's why: https://t.co/QtrMXnjZ23
#plantbased#loveyourgut#guthealth
Is your IBS actually undiagnosed coeliac disease? We are calling on greater awareness of the similarity of symptoms and urge anyone with IBS to ask their GP for a coeliac disease blood test.
Learn more: https://t.co/FUs8LF3zhL
#CoeliacUKAwarenessWeek#IBSorCoeliacDisease
My current job is out for advert! If you are looking for a fabulous job in gastroenterology and Colorectal surgery including lots of Nutrition support then this could be for you! Sad to leave but excited for the future!
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A normal bacterial community on skin produces bacteriocins that inhibit skin pathogens.
Cool because:
1) It might lead to new antimicrobials.
2) It shows the existing microbial community at a body site might be active in preventing infection.
https://t.co/7bYnju64t0
Agree medical schools should educate MDs about nutrition basics but #dietitians should be utilized more in educating patients. It’s not just about nutritional science but how to use that science in everyday life. Recipes, label reading, nutrient needs, meal planning & more.
Waiting patiently for patients that failed to turn up for the appointments they booked this morning - 5 so far.........!!! #wasteofresources#nhscrisis@NHSMillion
Did you know that if you text 741741 when you are feeling depressed or suicidal, a crisis worker will text you back immediately and continue to text with you? This is a free service for anyone in the UK. Please reach out ✨ #mentalhealth#sharethelove#raiseawareness
Do the different microbiomes of babies born vaginally & by c-section affect immune system priming?
New evidence
1) Vaginally-born infants' microbiome components stimulate more TNF-alpha & IL-18 in vitro
2) These are also higher in the infants' blood plasma
https://t.co/cwnBrXxXJg
The alkaline diet claims it will change the pH of your blood. 'Your body is perfectly capable of keeping its blood within a very specific pH range... If it failed to do so, you would become ill very quickly' said @kaitlincolucci Why not take a read? https://t.co/2k9XaKXMfa
12) ..of course we may not be able to request/obtain repeat biopsies, but think we have a duty of care to discuss these issues & not assume that because a pt is seronegative & appears to adhere to a GFD that their symptoms are functional in nature... ☺️
https://t.co/lBs4EeGHfm