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REAL-News--February-2025Feb 01

February 1, 2024 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – February 2025

February 2025 The Gut-Brain Axis Concept and Frailty The concept of the gut microbiome has taken the healthcare and fitness world by storm. The biome is affected by lifestyle, including medications, diseases, diet, and exercise. It is thought to effect not just the body but the brain, and cognition in the elderly. Sarcopenia – theRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: CAI, chronic ankle instability, inflammation, knee injury, microbiome, obesity, prebiotics, testosterone supplementation

Feb 06, 2015

February 6, 2015 By Irv Rubenstein

Diabetes, Puberty and Inflammation: Why Diet and Exercise is Medicine

Two articles bring to the forefront, again, what research is homing in on: that inflammation wreaks havoc beyond swelling, redness, and pain. The first, on how inflammation contributes to diabetes – and, by the way, how diabetes feeds into inflammation – comes from Health News Canal: Here we learn of an apparent linkage of bodyRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: hormones, inflammation, sedentary lifestyle, Type 2 Diabetes

More Healthy NewsApr 21

April 21, 2010 By Irv Rubenstein

More Healthy News

This article discusses research that shows weight loss reduces pro-inflammatory events and substances that contribute to heart disease: http://www.healthcanal.com/immune-system/7192.html What’s cool about the study is that it also demonstrates that fat, your personal body fat, may be a better predictor of how well you’ll lose weight if you have bariatric surgery, but who knows? MaybeRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: bariatrics, immune cells, inflammation, weight loss

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