6 surprising health benefits of a healthy gut microbiome
Sharon Walker
Posted July 14, 2021
Do you know the health benefits of a healthy gut microbiome? From better mood and sleep to weight management, here’s how to boost your gut health
A healthy gut is essential to digestion – though you already knew that.
It’s been the health buzz word of the decade, so you’ve probably heard all about your gut microbiome and the trillions of microbes that live in it.
In fact, as the scientists are just discovering, the impact of our gut microbes extends far beyond what we typically think of as ‘gut health’ and into almost every aspect of our wellbeing, affecting not just nutrient absorption and digestion, but also our immunity, mood, sleep, appetite and even our weight.
British Society of Lifestyle Medicine Annual Conference Announced
British Society of Lifestyle Medicine Annual Conference Announced
A unique ‘real world’ conference and virtual event
The British Society of Lifestyle Medicine (‘BSLM’), the leading UK charitable organisation promoting greater adoption of lifestyle medicine in healthcare and society, has announced that its annual conference will take place on September 2
nd to 4
th, 2021 at Edinburgh International Conference Centre. The event can also be attended online to enable wider reach and convenience for those unable to attend in person.
Designed to provide insight to the latest trends and developments in healthcare, medicine, academia, public health and scientific research, the annual conference brings together clinicians, scientists, researchers and health professionals to explore new approaches to the prevention, treatment, management and reversal of chronic disease.
AS we finally reach the end of this ghastly year, it is natural to search for signs that 2021 will be healthier, happier and more economically prosperous than the months of misery we have had to endure since coronavirus began to dominate our daily reality. The roll-out of vaccines offers the brightest hope of a return to normality, and there was huge news on this front yesterday, when the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab was given the green light for use by the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. While numerous other vaccines have either been approved for use or are under development, the Oxford inoculation has been hailed as a “game changer”, given that it will be priced significantly cheaper, and distributed and stored more easily than the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine currently in use.
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Picture by Stewart Attwood By Scott Wright ONE of Scotland’s biggest events destinations has underlined its confidence in the future of the conference market to rebound from the pandemic as it revealed it will host three major international conventions in the second half of next year. Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) announced yesterday that it will stage the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine, Cleantech Forum Europe, and the Society for Endocrinology conferences in September, October and November 2021. The events are respectively expected to attract1,000, 400 and 1,000 delegates respectively. The coup comes at the end of hugely damaging year for the Scottish conference and events sector, with the EICC last having held a major gathering in the middle of March – before the first lockdown to suppress the coronavirus infection rate was introduced.