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Gut-Healthy Recipe: Banana Peanut Butter Smoothie
For patients with digestive diseases, bananas and oats are easy-to-digest prebiotic and probiotic foods containing soluble fiber, while peanut butter or peanut butter powder adds protein and flavor.
2021 GIRF Scholar Kinga Skowron Olórtegui, MD, Update: Pouchitis Risk Factors Database
Different risk factors, including the type of sutures used to create the pouch, BMI, patient’s sex, prior C. difficile infection, and prior use of anti-TNF medications, all predicted different types of pouchitis.
2021 GIRF Scholar Tina Rodriguez Update: Investigating Inflammation, IBD and Mental Health Disorders
Research suggests inflammation itself may influence a patient’s development of mental health disorders. In this way, treating inflammation could have benefits for a person’s mental state.
Associates Board Awards $37,575 for GI Research to Future Field Leaders
In a year where fundraising has been extremely difficult for most nonprofits, the GI Research Foundation Associates Board raised and awarded record levels of funding.
Billy Perry, former Hepatitis C patient, “I won’t waste their time. If they don’t work, then I can’t work. If I don’t work, I’m gone…”
“This is the only hospital I have ever known to sit down with you, literally. They don’t hand you papers and tell you what this medication is. They sit down with you…. and tell you how important it is to take this medicine.”
Gut-Healthy Recipe: Peach Green Tea Lemonade Popsicles
Gut Healthy: Peach Green Tea Lemonade Popsicles Recipe
