Inflammation. A fiery term which is much bandied about these days. Is inflammation the culprit in, as it appears, the majority of diseases and symptoms? Sore neck? Perhaps it’s an inflamed tendon. Wheezing and coughing? Perhaps it’s the inflammation of an asthma attack. The list goes on: irritable bowel, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis and other autoimmune diseases. […]
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Regulation of Probiotics in the USA: Food
Regulation of Probiotics in the USA Part 1: Food The United States Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) regulation of products containing probiotics is complex and largely depends on the claims that are made for the product. For example, they can be regulated as foods, dietary supplements, cosmetics, or drugs/biologics. In this first of a four […]
Probiotics Show Guts in Gluten-Free Diet
Sticking to a gluten-free diet is difficult, if not impossible, even given the thousands of new products expunged of the problem protein. Many people with celiac disease and many others not diagnosed with the autoimmune disorder cannot process wheat (gliadin—part of the gluten), or rye (secalin) or barley (hordein), leading to small bowel damage. The main […]
Aspirin Lowers Probiotic Numbers
Side effects to medications run the gamut: from barely noticeable such as dry mouth to the drastic one hundred pound weight gain or double-digit spike in blood pressure. The elderly suffer a double whammy in that they usually take more drugs at the same time their guts are struggling to keep up. A graduate student […]
Join us! IPA World Congress + Probiota Americas in Chicago
IPA has teamed up with the publishers of Nutraingredients.com to bring you the most significant probiotic conference yet: IPA World Congress + Probiota Americas. Join us in Chicago from May 31 to June 2, 2016 where leading experts from the probiotic sector will present the latest scientific, technical and market insights. Business leaders and academics from […]
Rules of Attraction: Expo Edition
For convention-goers at Natural Foods Expo West in Anaheim–be they retailers, consumers or bloggers– the spectacle of glorious spaces and inspired new products offers a seemingly endless parade of pleasure. All this happiness comes at a high cost to exhibitors. For the most entrenched and profitable companies, these affairs are the cost of doing business. […]