Recent advances in measuring the effects of diet on gastrointestinal physiology: Probing the “leaky gut” and application of real‐time ultrasound

  • Published on 07/31/2024
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Tamara Mogilevski 1, Giovanni Maconi 2, Peter R Gibson 1

1 Department of Gastroenterology School of Translational Medicine, Monash University Melbourne Victoria Australia
2 Gastroenterology Unit, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences Luigi Sacco University Hospital University of Milan Milan Italy

Abstract

There is a large pool of ideas in both mainstream and non‐mainstream medicine on how diet can be manipulated in order to treat or prevent illnesses. Despite this, our understanding of how specific changes in diet influence the structure and function of the gastrointestinal tract is limited. This review aims to describe two areas that might provide key information on the integrity and function of the gastrointestinal tract. First, demystifying the “leaky gut syndrome”...

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