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Episode 128: Tommy Wood talks about high-fat diets and the metabolic flexibility of the human gut

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Is Ithemisin a Potential Therapy for Premature Infants?

The areas of the brain that are damaged in babies born prematurely, particularly extremely premature infants, aren't very well represented or easily modelled in rodent models. So this grant is to look at as ithemisin as a potential therapy for these patients. One of its most interesting functions is rather not as being so people ay may or may not know, as ithemison is an antipootic. It's a z pack, if anybody's taken that for, say, pneumonia. But at the same time, it has its effects on micoglea, which are these immune cells in the brain. They can be chronically activated and then contribute to ongoing a inflammation and new degeneration in the

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