ProHealth Irritable Bowel Syndrome Research and News

Plain old cranberry juice may knock Staph - even Methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) - on its keister

feeds@prohealth.com (x) — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:00:08 PDT

Keeps dangerous bugs like E. coli & S. aureus from latching onto cells - which they must do to infect.

Could Glutamine Help & Even Support Healing of IBS-D?

feeds@prohealth.com (x) — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:00:08 PDT

The culprit associated with 'leaky gut' - rife in IBS-D - is a glutamine-blocker.

St John's wort greatly reduces the concentrations of oral oxycodone Source: European Journal of Pain, Sep 2010

feeds@prohealth.com (Tuija H Nieminen, et al.) — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:00:08 PDT

Taking St John's wort for depression halves the pain relieving effect/duration of the opioid drug oxycodone.

Elimination diet for someone with ME/CFS or FM?

feeds@prohealth.com (Blake Graham, Clinical Nutritionist*) — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:00:08 PDT

Q: I have ME/CFS and FM, and increasingly have digestion problems & itchiness that I suspect could be food related. Can you recommend an elimination diet I can try to see if I have some food sensitivity? A: ME/CFS specialist Dr. Paul Cheney reports he has documented food sensitivities in roughly 50% of cases of CFS, and a large proportion of fibromyalgia patients suffer from food intolerances, though many do not know it. I believe an elimination diet is the best...

From Our Readers - Comments & Suggestions - 08-25-10

feeds@prohealth.com (x) — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:00:08 PDT

Sharing information on depression, menopause, blood pressure, pain medication, brain fog, asthma, drug costs and warnings, and much more.

A ChIP-seq defined genome-wide map of vitamin D receptor binding: Associations with disease and evolution Source: Genome Research, Aug 24, 2010

feeds@prohealth.com (SV Ramagopalan, et al.) — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:00:08 PDT

Genome analysis finds vit D significantly affects 2776 genomic positions and 229 genes - with intense activity near autoimmune and cancer-associated genes.

BREAKING NEWS NIH/FDA study detects XMRV variants in CFS patients

feeds@prohealth.com (x) — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:00:08 PDT

Findings "clearly support" the October 2009 article published in Science.

August 23, 2010 Historic Watershed in the Study of ME/CFS and Associated Illnesses

feeds@prohealth.com (x) — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:00:08 PDT

After a long, agonizing wait, the positive NIH-FDA-Harvard paper complicated, but did not disappoint.

WPI-Licensed Test for XMRV & Variants Now Available

feeds@prohealth.com (x) — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:00:08 PDT

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Watch History in the Making at the Center for Molecular Medicine/WPI Opening

feeds@prohealth.com (x) — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:00:08 PDT

Sending "A message of hope around the world."