Rex Pickar / Unsplash While we hope you aren’t feeling queasy, this guide to the BRAT diet will help if you find yourself needing a rescue remedy for nausea and loose stools. Most of us have memories of at least one time in our childhoods when we had a stomach bug. You might remember how … Read more
In a review published in the journal Communications Biology, researchers in the United States of America described the potential role and benefits of externally fermented foods in triggering the expansion of the hominid brain. They further discussed the explanatory power of their “external fermentation hypothesis” and surveyed relevant food practices across human cultures. Image Credit: Busker909 / … Read more
Trainee surgeons learning to conduct laparoscopic (or keyhole) surgery will soon be able to complete their training quicker thanks to an AI-empowered system being developed by researchers at the National Robotarium of Heriot-Watt University, in collaboration with the Dundee Institute for Healthcare Simulation of University of Dundee. Using artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor human movements … Read more
ReinhardThrainer / Pixabay Elimination diets offer a helpful way to hone in on which foods may be causing symptoms of common conditions such as IBS or leaky gut syndrome; popular elimination diets, such as the FODMAP diet, require a person to eliminate specific foods from the diet in order to determine if a food is … Read more