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Podcast: 3 blondes 1 battle
Episode: MS & your gut biome
Description: What has microbiome research told us about MS?
To prevent MS, we need to understand what causes it. 50 years of research has taught us that genes and environment and lifestyle factors like vitamin D, smoking and infections are important, but not the whole story.
Experts think the gut microbiome might have a role by triggering or ramping up the immune system's faulty response in MS.
Over the past decade or so, they have begun to appreciate how much communication there is between the brain and the gut. They're in contact all the time.
On top of this, there's the gut...