Archive for September, 2018
The Gut-Liver Axis
Posted on 17 September 2018 by Michael Ash in News
The relationship between the contents, metabolites, barrier and immune response of the gut and organs and function in the body are becoming well understood, albeit there are many nuances yet to be quantified.
One area in which the dynamic interaction between the gut and organs is rapidly rising up the knowledge tree is the ‘liver and gut axis’. In large part this is due to the increase in the prevalence of liver related inflammation, of which non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is becoming a global problem. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Loss’ and its management
Posted on 06 September 2018 by Michael Ash in News
Loss – what does it mean to you, what does it mean to the people you are helping? It likely means many things, because loss will be contextual and personal, but what happens when love, health, companionship, career or opportunity whatever their category and classification, dissolves under the interminable forces of time and change, be it by acts of sabotage, obfuscation, entropy, death or by some other, obscure or deliberate demise? Read the rest of this entry »