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Suffering From Constipation? This Simple Breath Test Could Change Everything

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Suffering From Constipation? This Simple Breath Test Could Change Everything

The study suggests that a personalised approach could address the root causes of digestive issues. Constipation is more common in those whose guts contain larger concentrations of archaea, a kind of methane-producing microbe, according to a study published in the journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. This finding may result in more focused therapies for this…

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Study finds one way statins can cause diabetes, and a solution

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Study finds one way statins can cause diabetes, and a solution

A bottle of Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd.’s atorvastatin calcium tablets arranged for a photograph, February 20, 2014. | Photo Credit: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg Administering ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) can stave off the tendency of statins to induce glucose intolerance and diabetes, a study by a group of researchers in China has found. (For top health news of the…

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Are you sure you contain 10x as many microbes as human cells?

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Are you sure you contain 10x as many microbes as human cells?

“You are more microbes than human.” It is possible you have had this factoid thrown at you, with the thrower claiming that the microbes in our bodies outnumber our own cells 10 to one. But according to an assessment published in Nature Microbiology, this is a myth. In a 2016 study the assessment’s authors cited,…

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