On Friday, I got my JDRF Research Newsletter and one of the highlights was a study conducted by Yale University and University of Chicago called the “Hygiene Hypothesis” that concluded common intestinal bacteria may provide some protection from the development of type 1 diabetes.
This fascinates me! For decades, Naturopaths and Homeopaths have always encouraged taking probiotics, but conventional medicine either blew off the importance of probiotics for restoring the bacteria to the...
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