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Tag: Gut Microbiome

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11 July 2022

When food is the enemy

By Margit Schwarz-Stiglbauer

In Austria, eight in one hundred children and adolescents are being treated for an eating disorder. That, however, is only a quarter of all those who are actually affected, and they are getting younger and younger. Child and adolescent psychiatrist Andreas Karwautz has three decades of experience at the special outpatient clinic for eating disorders […] Continue reading “When food is the enemy”

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18 October 2021

A bacterium that protects the liver from alcohol damage

What exactly happens in the body when alcohol damages the liver? A researcher at the Medical University of Vienna has uncovered the chain of mechanisms – which already begin in the digestive tract – behind alcohol-induced fatty liver. At the same time, the findings show possible approaches for future therapy developments.   Continue reading “A bacterium that protects the liver from alcohol damage”

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