Category: Medical
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Gut check before takeoff! Travel—even a quick getaway—can stir up dramatic changes in your gut microbiota. Whether you’re hopping continents or road-tripping for a weekend, exposure to new environments, foods, and microbes can disrupt your internal balance, triggering digestive symptoms like diarrhoea—or sneakily shifting your gut without you noticing a thing. These fluctuations, driven by…
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Every year on 18 June, Sustainable Gastronomy Day invites the global community to reflect on the intertwined destinies of cuisine, culture, and ecological integrity. At the heart of this celebration lies a question that extends far beyond the plate: How do our food choices reverberate through the invisible ecosystems of the human gut? Sustainable dietary patterns…
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Endurance running, celebrated globally on 7 June as Running Day, exemplifies a unique physiological stress that reverberates from skeletal muscle to the lumen of the gastrointestinal tract. The repetitive mechanical loading of distance running, coupled with sustained cardiorespiratory demand, elicits systemic adaptations that extend well beyond cardiovascular and musculoskeletal domains. Emerging research demonstrates that these…