Monday, September 21, 2009

Leaky gut -- no longer just a hypothesis

Researchers at University of Maryland are doing some really interesting research into the mechanisms behind "leaky gut" and its role in autoimmune disease and other disorders:

http://somvweb.som.umaryland.edu/absolutenm/templates/?a=893&z=5


This comes on the heels of Dr. Fasano's piece about Celiac disease in the August issue of Scientific American. No practical take-away as yet, but this is very cool, paradigm-shifting stuff, and it will be very interesting to see what other researchers do with this information over the next couple of years.

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