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Eating a diet full of fermented foods, like yogurt, kimchi, and fermented vegetables, and consuming kombucha tea may be a way to reduce the inflammation that’s associated with chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and chronic stress.
People who consumed more fermented products over a 10-week study period also had an increase in microbiome diversity and a decrease in immune cell activation.
“This is a stunning finding,” said coauthor Justin Sonnenburg, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University School in Palo Alto, California. “These results are one of the first examples of how a simple change in diet can reproducibly remodel the microbiota in a group of healthy adults.”
UCSF Launches Translational Psychedelic Research (TrPR) Program April 9, 2021
The newly christened Translational Psychedelic Research (TrPR) Program is launching a unique multidisciplinary network of scientists and healthcare providers who work together to research psychedelic-assisted therapies.
The TrPR Program, which is based at UCSF, is distinguishing itself from other university research groups through its distinctively inclusive approach to psychedelic medicine. Members of the TrPR network study psychedelic therapies that may benefit patients with conditions considered higher risk or overlooked by other researchers in the field, such as bipolar disorder, Parkinson’s and back pain.
TrPR includes investigators from both clinical and research disciplines based at medical centers from the San Francisco Bay Area to Seattle, says Dr. Joshua Woolley Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences and Director of the Translationa
Tips to Avoid Heat Illness Amid Record U.S. Heatwave By Naomi Shammash
July 15, 2021 – Hundreds of Americans have died of heat-related illnesses in the latest country-wide heat wave, and this week’s forecast also brings temperatures back into the triple digits for millions. At thermometers rise to historic levels, many are at risk, from young children attending camps to the elderly seeking shelter from the heat.
Heat-related illnesses can mean heat exhaustion or heatstroke, the latter of which is more serious and potentially life-threatening. Heat exhaustion is a milder form of heat illness that can happen after a person is exposed to high temperatures without drinking enough water. Heatstroke occurs when the body’s internal temperature reaches 104 F, or 40 C. Heatstroke can cause seizures or comas, and if left untreated, it can lead to heart attacks and death. (Learn more about heatstroke here.)
Antihypertension drug may benefit patients with neurofibromatosis type 2
New research led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Massachusetts Eye and Ear indicates that the blood pressure drug losartan may benefit patients with neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2), a hereditary condition associated with vestibular schwannomas, or noncancerous tumors along the nerves in the brain that are involved with hearing and balance. The findings, which are published in
Science Translational Medicine, are especially important because vestibular schwannomas are currently treated with surgery and radiation therapy (which carry risks of nerve damage), and no drug is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat these tumors or their associated hearing loss.