Dietary changes may help ward off lupus, BOB体育 researchers find
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A change in diet may protect against gut-bacteria dysfunction that leads to lupus in mice, University of Florida Health researchers have found.
In this video, Laurence M. Morel, Ph.D., a professor in the UF College of Medicine鈥檚 ; and , a professor, explain how a diet low in the amino acid tryptophan has protective effects against lupus in preclinical models. The disease causes the immune system to attack normal, healthy tissue throughout the body.
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Read the research findings in Science Translational Medicine: https://bit.ly/321CIBt
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