Informing decisions Improving health

Topics to be covered:

• * How poor digestion, a dysbiotic bowel flora and increased intestinal permeability can provoke inflammation
• * How inflammation is modified by diet and how inflammatory markers such as hs-CRP may be used as predictors of disease
• * How a westernised diet high in saturated fats, sugars and processed foods predisposes towards gut inflammation
• * The importance of the gut microbiota in stimulating and resolving inflammation
• * How a leaky gut exposes partially digested food antigens to the mucosal-associated immune system leading to the production of IgG antibodies