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Topic Focus for This Week:
Human Milk Oligosaccharides (HMO's ) and 2'Fucosyllactose (2'FL)

Lars Bode, PhD discusses:  
Potential Effects of HMOs on Adult Gut Microbiome

Enhancing Digestive Health: HMOs and Gut Protection

Prebiotics are non-digestible carbohydrates that selec tively stimulate the growth  and activity of beneficial gut bacteria. Some beneficial gut bacterial can metabolize prebiotics, which gives them a growth advantage

This video provides a brief overview of how natural prebiotics have a major clinical impact on long-term health

Watch the video

ReachMD and MHICN Collaboration

The New Era of Microbiome Sciences:
Impacts on Health and Disease
 
Host Dr Taz Bhatia welcomes Dr Mark Lyte, Professor of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine at the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine. Dr Lyte discusses how increasing awareness of human-microbiome interactions may redefine modern understandings of health and disease processes
  

Chiropractic Corner: Magnesium - The King of Minerals

Dr Christopher J Bump discusses the value of magnesium
supplementation for those individuals who experience anxiety, poor quality of sleep and acute joint pain. Magnesium is critical to muscle relaxation, energy metabolism and protein synthesis and in the US over 55% of adults are deficient in magnesium

Click here to watch the video

 
Dr Bump has created a unique model of health care by integrating Functional Medicine and Chiropractic.  A Diplomat with the Chiropractic Board of Clinical Nutrition, Dr Bump presides over the Education Committee as well as serving as Chairperson of the Nutrition Education Council for the New Jersey State Chiropractic Association

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