I first became fascinated with probiotics in the early 2000’s. There was not much published literature, but there were a lot of theories about how the body’s bacterial population influenced overall health. When I started writing my book in 2006, there was a larger body of literature. By the time my book was nearing completion […]
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Tip #8 Try Probiotics
Posted in The Diarrhea Dietitian book, Tips for Chronic Diarrhea, tagged Align, Culturelle, Florastor, functional foods, gut, microbiome, prebiotics, probiotics, synbiotics, VSL#3 on August 23, 2013 | Comments Off on Tip #8 Try Probiotics
Even runners get the trots
Posted in Running and Diarrhea, tagged diarrhea, gut, marathon, runner, runner's trots, running on April 12, 2012 | Comments Off on Even runners get the trots
I was reading my Runner’s World Magazine yesterday, when a news story caught my attention. They interviewed Nina Kuscsik, the first woman to officially run the Boston Marathon in 1972 (she had unofficially run Boston in 1969, 1970, and 1971, but women runners were not accepted into the race until 1972.) Here is an excerpt […]