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Miguel Toribio-Mateas, the chairman of BANT, this week highlighted\u00a0research published in the Journal of Alzheimer\u2019s Disease<\/a>\u00a0from Aix Marseille Universit\u00e9. \u00a0The review discusses the evidence for the effect of vitamin D on cognition.\u00a0 Low levels of vitamin D, now described as a steroid hormone, are associated with Alzheimer\u2019s Disease (AD).\u00a0 Indeed, individuals with genetic variations\u00a0related to vitamin D receptors (VDR) affecting the uptake and utilisation of vitamin D , \u201cpresented with worse cognitive functioning\u201d. \u00a0It was concluded that the impact\u00a0of vitamin D\u00a0is context specific and maybe even gender dependent so, “the D-tails of every individual” should be taken into account\u00a0going forward. \u00a0Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n The microbiome’s role in health and disease is only slowly giving up its secrets. The latest and perhaps most remarkable finding is the ability that gut bacteria have to moderate our brain and behaviour.\u00a0 A meta-analysis\u00a0in Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility<\/a>\u00a0concluded that, \u201cprobiotics showed efficacy in improving psychiatric disorder-related behaviors including anxiety,\u00a0depression, autism spectrum disorder,\u00a0obsessive-compulsive disorder, and memory abilities, including spatial and non-spatial memory.”\u00a0Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n camexpo<\/a> is the UK\u2019s biggest natural health & wellbeing event and students can attend for just \u00a35, saving \u00a320 on the door price and groups of 10 or more can attend for free!<\/p>\n >>Book your BANT Student Saver Ticket here<\/a><\/p>\n There are over 200 suppliers<\/a> to see under one roof and lots of money-saving offers as well as over 100 education sessions hosted by the UK\u2019s leading trainers so this is the best opportunity you have this year to get into the natural health community and learn some of the latest trends from some of the best in the business.<\/p>\n Education programme:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Taster Workshops<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 <\/strong>\u2013 get hands on at 47 Workshops with leading trainers (priced at \u00a319.50 each) >>Book your BANT Student Saver Ticket here<\/a> cheap air max 95<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This bulletin looks at the protection\u00a0vitamin D may offer for\u00a0cognition, as discussed by French researchers. \u00a0The influence that our gut microbes may exert over our behaviour. \u00a0And the exclusive student offer available for CAM Expo. The Therapeutic Benefit of Vitamin D? Miguel Toribio-Mateas, the chairman of BANT, this week highlighted\u00a0research published in the Journal of Alzheimer\u2019s Disease\u00a0from Aix Marseille Universit\u00e9. \u00a0The review discusses the evidence for the effect of vitamin D on cognition.\u00a0 Low levels of vitamin D, now described as a steroid hormone, are associated with Alzheimer\u2019s Disease (AD).\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-5734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bant-student-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/media\/5071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5734"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=5734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Gut bacteria and the brain: Are we controlled by microbes?<\/h3>\n
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