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VITAMIN D AND COVID-19 We diagnose vitamin D deficiency in nearly half of the patients we check a level. This is likely because vitamin D has shown to be quite important in numerous gut conditions – either as a contributing cause of symptoms or as a result of an underlying issue. Patients with celiac […]
BIG BREAKFAST HELPS WEIGHT LOSS Check out this article in MedPage Today highlighting a recent study showing the benefit of consuming a higher proportion of daily food intake earlier in the day. “The body uses more than twice as much energy to digest breakfast than dinner, a finding that emphasizes the importance of breakfast […]
IBS AND ENDOMETRIOSIS OVERLAP Check out this article in MedPage Today that discusses the overlap between irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and endometriosis (an often painful disorder in which tissue similar to the tissue that normally lines the inside of your uterus grows outside your uterus). Endometriosis is a condition that can commonly manifest with […]
VEGETARIAN DIET TIED TO LOWER STROKE RISK Check out this article in MedPage Today about a study of the members of the Tzu Chi Buddhist communities in Taiwan who ate vegetarian diets and were then shown to have a markedly lower stroke risk than non-vegetarian members. MedPage Today: Vegetarian Diet Tied to Lower Stroke […]
