The order in which you eat your food (carbs, protein, fats) can influence the degree to which your body experiences a ‘glucose spike.’ Management of blood sugar levels is important for anyone with diabetes, overweight or trying to prevent neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer’s disease.

Consuming fats and/or protein before carbohydrates can slow gastric emptying, thus reducing the ‘glucose spike’ experienced with meals. Consider removing sugary beverages, and adding fiber, proteins or fats to carbohydrates to slow gastric emptying and flatten glucose spikes.

https://www.sciencealert.com/salad-before-carbs-here-s-the-science-of-food-sequencing-and-your-health

A Monash University study exploring the emerging gut-skin axis has found that microbial fermentation of dietary fiber in the gut can protect against allergic skin disease. The research could potentially lead to novel treatments to prevent or treat allergies.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-dietary-fiber-gut-skin-allergies.html

The CDC has recently decided to update their reporting form to classify, count, and track Lyme disease cases in the U.S. The two biggest changes to the definition are the inclusion of Borrelia mayonii, a newly discovered Borrelia burgdorferi family member, in the Lyme case count, and the option for physicians to use a cheaper, simpler test in the second part of the two-tiered testing protocol.

https://www.lymedisease.org/newby-lyme-case-definition/