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Aim We aimed to examine the gut permeability in patients with schizophrenia and its relevance to schizophrenia symptoms, medication, cognitive functions, and blood immune markers. Methods We selected 22 patients with schizophrenia (mean age: 37.9 ± 10.5 years) comprising 9 men and 13 women. Furthermore, we included 86 healthy controls (mean age: 43.5 ± 11.0 years) comprising 41 men and 45 women. All participants were biologically unrelated and of Japanese descent. We used the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) and Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia (BACS) to measure the severity of schizophrenia symptoms and cognitive functions, respectively. The lactulose-mannitol loading test was used to measure the permeability of the small intestine. Furthermore, we used the lactulose to mannitol ratio (LMR) as an index of gut permeability. We measured the C-reactive protein and natural killer (NK) cell activity in the blood as highly sensitive immune markers. Results The patients had a significantly higher rate of “leaky gut” (defined as LMR ≥ 0.1) compared to the control group (22.7% vs. 5.8%, odds ratio: 4.8 [95% confidence interval, 1.2-18.3], Fisher's exact test, P = 0.03). There was no significant correlation between the LMR and PANSS scores or in the daily antipsychotic dose. In addition, the LMR was negatively correlated with the total Z-score of the BACS and NK cell activity in the patients. Conclusions Our results suggest a higher rate of abnormally increased gut permeability in patients with schizophrenia than in controls. Moreover, gut permeability may be related to the cognitive and cellular immunity function of patients with schizophrenia.

The hunter-gatherer’s dinner is front page news these days. Drawing from the writings of Dr. Boyd Eaton and Professor Loren Cordain, experts in the so-called Paleolithic diet, columnists …

Scientists previously underestimated aquatic methane emissions. We must use this new information to stop methane derailing our attempts to stabilise the Earth’s temperature.

A new analysis of adults aged 80 years and older shows that a healthier lifestyle is associated with a lower risk of cognitive impairment, and that this link does not depend on whether a person carries a particular form of the gene APOE. Xurui Jin of Duke Kunshan University in Jiangsu, China, and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine.

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Background/Purpose The conventional low-purine dietary approach to gout offers limited efficacy, palatability, and sustainability, and promotes increased consumption of refined carbohydrates and saturated fat that can actually worsen gout’s cardiovascular (CV)-metabolic comorbidities.  In contrast, effective dietary approaches to reduce CV-metabolic conditions (including obesity) could also lower serum uric acid (SUA) levels by lowering adiposity and […]

Researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center have found that high levels of fructose in the diet inhibit the liver's ability to properly metabolize fat. This effect is specific to fructose. Indeed, equally high levels of glucose in the diet actually improve the fat-burning function of the liver. This explains why high dietary fructose has more negative health impacts than glucose does, even though they have the same caloric content.

Aims The intermediate-term effects of dietary protein on cardiometabolic risk factors in overweight and obese patients with heart failure and diabetes mellitus are unknown. We compared the effect of two calorie-restricted diets on cardiometabolic risk factors in this population. Methods and results In this randomized controlled study, 76 overweight and obese (mean weight, 107.8 ± 20.8 kg) patients aged 57.7 ± 9.7 years, 72.4% male, were randomized to a high-protein (30% protein, 40% carbohydrates, and 30% fat) or standard-protein diet (15% protein, 55% carbohydrates, and 30% fat) for 3 months. Reductions in weight and cardiometabolic risks were evaluated at 3 months. Both diets were equally effective in reducing weight (3.6 vs. 2.9 kg) and waist circumference (1.9 vs. 1.3 cm), but the high-protein diet decreased to a greater extent glycosylated haemoglobin levels (0.7% vs. 0.1%, P = 0.002), cholesterol (16.8 vs. 0.9 mg/dL, P = 0.031), and triglyceride (25.7 vs. 5.7 mg/dL, P = 0.032), when compared with the standard-protein diet. The high-protein diet also significantly improved both systolic and diastolic blood pressure than the standard-protein diet (P

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The first peopling of Europe has been widely discussed for the last decades. The many findings recorded in recent years have confi rmed that Europe was occupied by hominins during the Early Pleistocene for over a million years. However, several

A review of archaeological and palaeoenvironmental datasets relating to Middle and Late Pleistocene hominin dispersals within and beyond Africa demonstrates unique environmental settings and adaptations for Homo sapiens relative to other hominins. Our species' ability to occupy diverse and 'extreme' settings around the world stands in stark contrast to the ecological adaptations of other hominin taxa, and may explain how our species became the last surviving hominin on the planet.

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The vegan diet is low in – or, in some cases, entirely devoid of – several important brain nutrients. Could these shortcomings be affecting vegans' abilities to think?

Researchers examined stable isotopes from bone collagen and dental enamel to reconstruct the diets of ancient Mongolians. Findings challenge the popular notion of a completely nomadic prehistoric population, linking grain cultivation with the success of the Xiongnu Empire (c. 200 BCE-150 CE) and showing continual grain consumption during the Mongol Empire of the Khans (c. 1200-1400 CE).

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The transition from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to dependence on agricultural production is commonly considered one ofthe most important achievements ofhuman history. This transition, often referred to as the Neolithic Revolution, ushered in a variety ofchanges in human dietary intake, food processing and procurement methods, settlement patterns, andphysical activity. Skeletal analyses ofhuman remains from early agricultural centers throughout the world indicate that this revolution significantly affected overall human health. This paper will address some ofthe drastic effects ofthis transition as evidenced by craniofacial changes related to masticatoryfunction, declines in oral health, increased spread ofpathogens, infectious disease, and zoonoses, as well as a variety ofailments which have been linked to nutritional deficiencies and increased physical stress on the human body.

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Human and carnivore sites in the European Middle and Upper Paleolithic: Similarities and differences in bone modification and fragmentation

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Three new studies offer evidence of overlapping groups of ancient human species, some of whom contributed to who and what we are today.

New research shows that humans had a significant role in the extinction of woolly mammoths in Eurasia, occurring thousands of years later than previously thought.

Researchers at Tel Aviv University were able to reconstruct the nutrition of stone age humans.

Background: Cardiovascular risk in diabetes remains elevated despite glucose lowering therapies. We hypothesised that hyperglycaemia induces trained immunity in macrophages, promoting persistent pro-atherogenic characteristics. Methods: Bone marrow derived macrophages from control and mice with diabetes were grown in physiological glucose (5 mM) and subject to RNA-sequencing (n=6), ATAC-sequencing (n=6) and ChIP-sequencing (n=6) for determination of hyperglycaemia-induced trained immunity. Bone marrow transplantation from mice with (n=9) or without (n=6) diabetes into [normoglycaemic] Ldlr -/- mice was used to assess its functional significance in vivo. Evidence of hyperglycaemia-induced trained immunity was sought in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from patients with diabetes (n=8) compared with case controls (n=16) and in human atherosclerotic plaque macrophages excised by laser capture microdissection. Results: In macrophages, high extracellular glucose promoted pro-inflammatory gene expression and pro-atherogenic functional characteristics, through glycolysis-dependent mechanisms. Bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDM) from diabetic mice, retained these characteristics, even when cultured in physiological glucose, indicating hyperglycaemia-induced trained immunity. Bone marrow transplantation from diabetic mice into [normoglycaemic] Ldlr -/- mice increased aortic root atherosclerosis, confirming a disease-relevant and persistent form of trained innate immunity. Integrated ATAC-seq, ChIP-seq and RNA-seq analyses of haematopoietic stem cells and BMDM revealed a pro-inflammatory "priming effect" in diabetes. The pattern of open chromatin implicated transcription factor, RUNX1, while transcriptomes of atherosclerotic plaque macrophages and peripheral leukocytes in patients with type 2 diabetes were enriched for RUNX1 targets, consistent with a potential role in human disease. Pharmacological inhibition of RUNX1 in vitro inhibited the trained phenotype. Conclusions: Hyperglycaemia-induced trained immunity may explain why targeting elevated glucose is ineffective in reducing macrovascular risk in diabetes and suggests new targets for disease prevention and therapy.

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