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Washing Machines, Hand Dryers and Germs

Washing Machines, Hand Dryers and Germs

Posted by on Nov 26, 2019 in Blog |

Hand Dryers Remember when public bathrooms didn’t have hot air hand dryers? Installed to eliminate waste and improve hygiene, research suggests that they are actually great at spreading germs, right back onto your freshly washed hands. A 2018 study brought this information to people’s attention. Researchers exposed petri dishes to bathroom air...

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New Studies Linking Gut Bacteria and Cancer Treatment

New Studies Linking Gut Bacteria and Cancer Treatment

Posted by on Nov 8, 2017 in Blog, Breast cancer, Colorectal cancer, Leukemia, Lung cancer, Lymphoma, Melanoma, Multiple Myeloma, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Prostate cancer | 4 comments

In It’s All In Your Gut, A High Fiber Diet and the Immune System, we introduced the microbiome that lives in our body.  It helps with our digestion and makes the short-chained fatty acids (SCFAs) that are important to our immune system.  Now several recent studies are looking at bacteria in the bodies of people with cancer.   Specifically, these...

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Resistance To Antibiotics: A Threat Too Great To Ignore

Resistance To Antibiotics: A Threat Too Great To Ignore

Posted by on Apr 6, 2016 in Blog |

What are SuperBugs? SuperBugs are microbes like bacteria, parasites, viruses and fungi that have become resistant to treatment. How Do Microbes Become Resistant? Microbes are survivors. They modify themselves to guarantee their survival. Since the discovery of penicillin, humans have been finding and creating medications to kill microbes that make us sick....

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