Cooling Inflammation

Inflammation is the foundation for cancer and degenerative/autoimmune diseases. Small changes in diet and exercise, e.g. omega-3 oils, vitamin D, low starch, and maintaining muscle mass, can dramatically alter predisposition to disease and aging, and minimize the negative impact of genetic risks. Based on my experience in biological research, I am trying to explain how the anti-inflammatory diet and lifestyle combat disease. 190 more articles at http://coolinginflammation.blogspot.com

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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Antibiotic Resistance, Superbugs and Drugs

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--- All 200 posts here --- Antibiotic resistance results, because spontaneous mutations occur so frequently that all bacteria are differe...

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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Health in Diagrams I — Gut Flora and Diet

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--- All 200 posts here --- This is the first of three posts to summarize my thoughts on diet, inflammation and disease mediated by gut fl...

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Thursday, January 23, 2014

Gut Flora Risk and Repair

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….All 190 posts here…. The two most important contributors to health are diet and gut flora. All of the other contributors, such as exer...

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Thursday, December 19, 2013

Antibiotics, Gluten, Hashimoto's Thyroiditis and Baldness

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My impression is that Hashimoto's is caused by a combination of an initial immune attack on the thyroid and incompetent regulatory T ce...

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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Vitamin C, Guinea Pigs, Limeys and Gut Worms

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Scurvy and the Need for Vitamin C Old timey sailors got the symptoms of scurvy, defective collagen and connective tissue, presumably beca...

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Friday, May 4, 2012

New Antibiotics, Biofilm Inhibitors, Vitamin Deficiency

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I was not expecting my recent reading of an article on femtosecond reaction kinetics to produce another discussion of quorum sensing, biof...

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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Food Poisoning and Manmade E. coli

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Bacteria on food is a problem for diet-compromised people. Gut Flora are Required for a Healthy Immune System Healthy people don't ge...

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Friday, December 31, 2010

Honey, Hydrophobicity and Biofilms

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A reader (Jay Bryant) recently pointed out a PNAS article on the structure of a bacterial enzyme that uses sucrose to make the glucan matrix...

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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Rosacea, Brain Cooling and Niacin Flush

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Other players include: Cathelicidins, Prostaglandins, Cryptic Bacteria, Nerves, Gut What does it take to make your face red? Excessive s...

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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Biofilms as Human Gut Mycorrhizals

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Are Biofilms Healthy Extensions of Intestinal Villi? If soil is the stomach of the earth, then plant roots and mycorrizal fungi must be t...

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Dr. Art Ayers: I grew up in San Diego and did my PhD in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (U. Colo. Boulder). I subsequently held postdoctoral research positions at the Swedish Forest Products Research Laboratories, Stockholm, U. Missouri -Colombia and Kansas State U. I was an assistant professor in the Cell and Developmental Biology Department at Harvard University, and an associate professor and Director of the Genetic Engineering Program at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, PA. I joined the faculty at the College of Idaho in 1991 and in 1997-98 I spent a six-month sabbatical at the National University of Singapore. Most recently I have focused on the role of heparin in inflammation and disease.

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