I’ve only ever thought of mucus as a quick-n-dirty way to measure intestinal inflammation. Looks like the bowel/mucus/bacteria relationship is a bit more complex: Viscous mucus covers the intestinal wall, disables bacterial movements, and protects epithelial cells from contact with bacteria. Leukocytes migrate into and patrol within the mucus layer executing surveillance functions without any collateral damage. The […]
Gut Health
Why I Started this Blog
Hippocrates, one of the founding fathers of medicine, said this: All disease begins in the gut. For a long time, I didn’t believe him. There are plenty of other places in the body that disease can strike. Eye disease, birth defects, infections, cancer of any body part, the list goes on. I’m sure there’s even […]