They are hoping the seeds will eventually be developed as a functional food to fight a range of other inflammatory diseases, too, such as arthritis, heart disease and some cancers.

Diclofenac is widely used to treat pain and inflammation, and people can buy it without a prescription—but it dramatically increases the risk of a 'major heart event' within 30 days of starting the drug. Reactions have included a sudden irregular heart beat or flutter, stroke, heart failure and heart attack.

Baking soda, or bicarbonate of soda in the UK, is a raising agent for baking—but it also has enormous therapeutic value. It reduces acid levels in the blood—which helps reverse heart disease and osteoporosis—but it also moderates the immune system's inflammatory responses. That means that auto-immune problems like rheumatoid arthritis—where the body is essentially attacking itself—can be eased.

The fruit reduces inflammatory responses in the colon and repopulates the gut with 'good' bacteria. In turn, this "significantly suppresses" common IBD symptoms such as weight loss and bloody diarrhea.

If you are making changes to your nutritional habits for the new year, it's vital that you include specific movements to maximize your ability to fully rid yourself of the waste that builds up.

Every day our bodies are bombarded with toxins from both outside the body (exotoxins)—the polluted environment, medications, alcohol, cigarette smoke, car exhaust emissions and so on—as well as from toxins within it (endotoxins)—the byproducts of nutrient breakdown, hormones and bacterial waste products from the intestines.

The liver is not the only organ of detoxification. Quite the contrary, every cell in your body is cleaning its own house every nanosecond that you're alive. However, all of the body's systems depend to some extent on the detoxifying function of the liver. In fact, one of the greatest common misunderstandings about the liver is that we only need to support it when we drink alcohol.

The higher the temperature goes above the 'normal' 37 degrees C (98.6 degrees F), the more the body speeds up its natural defences against tumours, wounds and infections.

The oils could halve the size that tumours grow, and also stop them metastasizing (spreading)—and as a result, the women live longer. The oils also seem to have a protective effect against breast cancer, researchers from the University of Nebraska have found.

The additives—and specifically CMC and P80—cause inflammation in our gut that impacts on the brain, causing behavioural problems, say researchers at Georgia State University in the US.

A high-fats ketogenic diet—as it's known—seems to influence ageing, and can cause a 13 per cent increase in average lifespan, which could translate to between seven and 10 additional years for humans. The quality of life, including physical strength, also seems to be sustained, so there is little deterioration during those extra years of life.

Heart attack victims "significantly" reduced their risk of a second attack if they lowered inflammation in their body, even if their cholesterol levels remained the same.

People with poor levels of bacteria in their gut are more likely to suffer from arterial stiffness, researchers discovered when they monitored the health of 617 middle-aged women, many of whom were twins. There was an inverse relationship between gut diversity and arterial disease; in other words, the women with the greatest diversity of bacteria had the least amount of arterial stiffness.

Remarkable results have been recorded in people who have taken curcumin supplements, with dramatic improvements in memory, attention and even mood.

Researchers at the University of Zurich have been working on a gut-based solution for several years, and they believe they are close to making their therapy available to MS sufferers.

It's not yet known whether an allergy can cause the MS in the first place, but researchers do know that sufferers experience a relapse soon after a reaction to food.

The common factor seems to be inflammation in the gut that is triggered by an allergic reaction, say researchers at the Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Regular orange eaters are 60 per cent less likely to have developed the disease 15 years later, a new research study has discovered.

People who eat an orange a day are the least likely to suffer from macular degeneration when they're elderly, but even eating an orange once in a while also has some protective effect.

Although vitamins C, E and A are supposed to be keep our eyes healthy, it was the flavonoids specifically found in oranges that seemed to have the greatest benefit, say researchers from the University of Sydney.

Bacteria from bad gums could be initiating the auto-immune response that causes the joint pain and swelling associated with RA, researchers from the Leeds Biomedical Research Centre have found.

Most people in northern hemispheres are depleted in the vitamin because of the weakness of sunlight, the short summers and an over-zealous 'safe sun' campaign—and almost every rheumatoid arthritis sufferer has low levels, and probably that's true for people with other inflammatory diseases too.