IBD, or Inflammatory Bowel Disease, is a chronic illness characterized by inflammation of the digestive tract. IBD can affect anywhere in the digestive tract, from the mouth to the anus, but is mostly found in the large intestine and the lowermost portion of the small...
Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease are two forms of the same disease, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, also called IBD. They are both chronic inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Both forms of the disease share many similarities in terms of...
No one really knows for sure what causes Crohn’s Disease or Ulcerative Colitis, the two forms of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). IBD is an autoimmune disease when something goes wrong and triggers an inappropriate immune response, and the body’s immune system starts...
There has been a huge increase in studies being done on the human microbiome in recent years, starting with the Human Microbiome Project conducted by the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) research initiative, first launched in 2007. Initially, it...
Have you recently been diagnosed with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)? Do you worry that your life will never be the same? Do you feel depressed, anxious, or resentful about your disease? All of those feelings are perfectly normal and perfectly acceptable to feel,...
