surely news from africa. your link to exceptional stories and discussions news is easy and while website d.w. that comes from africa join us on facebook. for. welcome to weekend good shape coming up. cracking the secret of nuts why are they so good for us. tackling warts how to get rid of them quickly and effectively. end up pain in the gut help for irritable bowel syndrome and crohn's disease. how does your bowel work do you suffer from chronic diarrhea or constipation then

you should get a proper diagnosis into can get one here in berlin for instance at the martin luther hospital and this is why i will meet the head of the clinic for internal medicine professor what americans think of chick. ideas is not an imaginary are psychological disease but an organic problem. do you suffer from abdominal pain from trams or constipation or diarrhea you might have i.b.s. or irritable bowel syndrome many people think that i.b.s. is a hypochondriac disease but as a g.p. let me tell you the pain is real. a rumbling stomach persistent abdominal cramps. if the symptoms don't go away and rest and

a hot water bottle don't bring relief the diagnosis could be irritable bowel syndrome typical symptoms of i.b.s. our ongoing stomach pain bloating a feeling of incomplete bolle evacuation and major discomfort they're typically accompanied by frequent diarrhea sometimes alternating with constipation. the human intestinal tract is extremely complex it's lined with one hundred million nerve cells and packed with trillions of bacteria they digest food and neutralize pathogens many people with irritable bowel syndrome exhibit changes in their intestinal flora the natural mix of bacteria is disrupted the gut is often thrown out of balance after a stomach bug or a course of antibiotics i.b.s. sufferer's also have intestinal nerves that are very sensitive to change and let the brain know about it. all sufferers share one complaint

a severe impairment in quality of life. causes of i.b.s. are often determined via what's called a diagnosis of exclusion that process typically begins with an internal examination a colonoscopy illnesses like crohn's disease as well as also years or cancerous tumors can only two digestive disorders if the colonoscopy doesn't reveal the cause of the discomfort the next step is the blood tests to check for inflammations of the liver or gall bladder patients may also have a gastroscopy to see whether an ulcer in the stomach is responsible for an allergy might be to blame a new technique called colonoscopies allergen provocation can now help pinpoint perpetrators. we used to only be able to in directly show food related reactions now for the first time

we're able to see an immediate reaction in the intestine of a living organism to the food in question and record it. the procedure involves doctors guiding an endoscopy probe all the way to the duodenal and then injecting staple foods like egg or milk directly onto the intestinal membranes sometimes they lead to rapid inflammation in the area causing the cells in the membrane to burst. in patients where standard tests have failed to provide answers the examination offers a novel chance to finally get to the root of their suffering. so how should patients with i.b.s. lead their lives avoiding foods that irritate their intestines is crucial low carb cooking is also a good idea if you are carbohydrates means less sugar and cutting it can help reestablish a healthy balance in intestinal flora bread is not necessarily

a no no even if dough does contain possible triggers what are known as fat maps these are types of cars. carbs that aren't broken down properly in the gut resulting in abdominal bloating. allowing the dough to rise for at least four hours helps diminish five map levels dramatically the resulting bread will help keep the intestine happy and the eater as well. i'm here with dr who is head of the apartment of internal medicine of the martin luther hospital here in berlin thanks for having me today you not only intern is you're a psychologist that's what a psychotherapist so i think that the guestroom test i'm tracked is very closely linked to our psyche in the true that's true we call it the brain get texas it's the link between the central nervous system and the g.i. tract which is mediated nerves and by homes and by the system effects of

emotions on a function are mediated so if we take a look at the irritable bowel syndrome is this is psychological disease you know it's not a psychological disease despite the fact that the psychological effect as strong emotions can induce symptoms due to the traces of jet functions which resemble their true powers and from the problem of ideas is in the gut or in the brain that axis it's not a psychological disease ok and then what are the main three terms the mentum can stuff it into bars and drum pain and i had to asians of function this is constipation or diarrhea and sometimes also distant so those are normal regulatory functions like cancer patients but those are accepted rated in patients with irritable bowel disease is right the difference between normal subject where sometimes a little bit of discomfort or

a trace and of the of the stool of the bone movements is that these patients have a significantly impairment of the. quality of life due to the severity and frequency of this. piece suspect that one of my patients has ruta of our syndrome i can send him over to you and you check for this yes what we do is we have to see if the so-called wrong criteria for phil that means the patient has more than three months of these kind of symptoms and we have to exclude other possible reasons for the symptoms of the g.i. diseases or other tracing of the g.i. function so what kind of other diseases can mosque and. the effect us which can be used in your symptoms similar to be as dietary factors in from it are about as these two moons infections. psychological diseases as well so if you diagnose and i.b.s.

you can treat it so what kind of medications to use well you have to. decide which kind of type of i.b.s. the patient has which is in front of you is that a patient with i.b.s. constipation predominant subtype or is the patient with the diarrhea and depending on these you have to decide which kind of medication you use since the underlying mechanism between these subtypes are different what about diet can you cure or treat i.b.s. with nutrition well first you have to find out if nutritional affect us or a trigger these patients so well hold can you do this ideally this patient's. diarrhea for let's say four weeks to see if there's not the see asian between specific food ingredients and the and the symptoms if this is the case they should stay away from these so what about sports and exercise we usually in this programs

test that it's very very important to say. yeah well it's it has been shown that sports and physical exercise is beneficial in i.b.s. patients. especially patients are both predominant with i.b.s. and preventing cancer patients and also other behavior effect can be helpful as you said that if you want to diagnose i.b.s. you have to rule out other diseases of the colon like chronic inflammatory disease like crohn's disease which is a disease where intestinal tissue can be destroyed. stephanie has suffered from chronic disease her entire life. and that means she has to watch what she eats very carefully. any good will to act out that if i'm having a good day i'll have. a nice meal and have all the things that i shouldn't really eat when i'm having a bad day i'm out of luck during a serious flare up i often can't eat at all that can last for

a week or two depending on then i end up in the hospital where i get a feeding tube or i'm given nutrients intravenously. that is. when things get bad stephanie suffers from severe stomach ache diarrhea and fatigue but now that she is receiving treatment here at the hospital flare ups occur less frequently scientists still aren't exactly sure what causes crohn's disease since in effect there are four major factors at work first of all where you come from what country and what you eat then there are genetic factors. we also believe that the composition of bacteria viruses and parasites in your gut plays a major role. he said last but not least there's your immune system it appears the immune system can overreact to the contents of the gut. and there may be some

over activity as well particularly of t. lymphocytes and macrophages. thomas blocker is an immunologist who's interested in the complex processes at work in the gut. this kind of basic research could provide new insights into crohn's disease and lead to the development of more targeted therapies. his immune system in promised the guts immune system is quite complex because it has so many jobs to do so the immune system in the skin is much simpler placed on for. when the skin is injured bacteria into the wound a well functioning immune system immediately starts to mobilize against the invaders. but in the got the situation is far. complex the food we eat is a foreign body so normally you'd expect the immune system to mobilize against it

moreover the gut contains some one hundred trillion bacteria and other microorganisms that need it for digestion but normally you'd expect them to trigger an immune response to it so how do the guts immune cells know how to respond to invaders whether to attack or tolerate them certain immune cells called dendritic cells play a key role in this decision making process inside the intestines they have a very important job to do. to dendritic cells in the gut normally suppress the immune response and generate the opposite response meaning tolerance. blocker wanted to find out how dendritic cells behave in a healthy got and in a diseased one. to do so his team flash rose a piece of intestine in the lab. afterwards very thin slices of the to she were made. they then examined samples under the microscope to determine where the

dendritic cells are located in the intestine. this is melissa this is the result of the historical analysis you can see the dendritic cells which appear red in this healthy section there near the intestinal lumens and near the contents of the gut in contrast here we have a section of diseased gut which also has undergone histological analysis you can see how the structure has been damaged there's also a massive infiltration of inflammatory cells which appear here in orange you can't see any more dendritic cells they're gone this into. the diseased got no longer has the cells that suppress the immune response so that leads to inflammation brocker is investigating several different hypotheses as to why the dendritic cells might be vanishing but many of. open questions remain. stephanie gun takes medication that suppresses the other wanted immune response they have side effects they can

cause joint pain for example but for her the trade off is worth it she hopes that one day researches will discover drugs that can treat crohn's disease in a more targeted fashion with fewer side effects. a dominant pain in day rear of frequent symptoms in patients who are not actually sick so it's how can you say that it's crow's disease well in patients with crohn's disease. diarrhea is very often associated with blood in the stool or so these patients have seen very intense. pain and sometimes also other and to dismiss symptoms like fever authorities or weight loss the patient in the report was so sick that she needed to be fed artificially over time so is this very frequent situation where luckily nowadays this is not they were frequent in the crohn's disease so what happens to the patient if the disease is not treated well if that is not treated it progresses

the inflammation continues and on the long run this can cause structural damage to the intestines to the colon especially and this will result in for exams to noses or physically so these are severe out of the of the intestines to be honest you cannot cure trolls disease but how can you help whether the. medication that we can. control the information. especially in the last decades tremendous progress has been made in the understanding of the mechanism but also in the treatment of the disease and new compounds have been found which are low to really slow down the information and by acting on the moon system or other targets. and the problem with crohn's disease that it's relaxing disease whole patent is it to avoid those relapses this is extremely important so after you have successfully

treated the acute face of the disease you have to continue a medication to prevent these kind of religious and these medications also have the same target the target is anti information there's a lot of research going on across disease so what about the role of forget bacteria well they got bacterial of the so called microbiome play a role in the infantry process as we know now. also in infertile bodies. but we are not at the point that we have a medication where we can say if we. change the microbiome that. improve the disease so we could have you question from sydney in australia kylie smith's wants to know what she can do personally to influence positively because of the disease in respect of behavioral changes the most important factor is

not to smoke so if you're a smoker you should stop smoking you know this has been officially affects on the course of the disease thanks so much for answer all the questions today and if you have any questions you like me to ask our experts to me an e-mail. on an upcoming show we'll be looking at blood supplies your body with nutrients and can flag up many diseases will also examine therapies that make use of the patient's own blood are they medically sound send your questions to you in good shape that d.w. dot com just write blood in the subject line we look forward to hearing from you. they are in knowing they are contagious and are seen by many as a blemish i'm talking about watts and if your immune system is not able to fight towards some patients for the treatment. hypnosis by moonlight applying a banana skin poultice the slimy trail left by

a snail even the ancient practice of charming folk medicine has no end of cures for the warts that occasionally pop up on your skin and sometimes they might be even more. the placebo effect is well known in medicine one way or another the immune system is positively stimulated by the patient developing a positive attitude. and if i'm in a good mood now after having been charmed then i've also got my positive placebo effect. and that's enough in ten to twenty percent of cases. warts are caused by viruses common vectors of infection or public showers or changing rooms they affect people whose skin is compromised in some way and they should be treated quickly because they can spread rapidly. first of all an infected

person becomes a vector and in addition warts can cause discomfort many patients say they can't run anymore or that it's painful the skin just isn't functioning properly anymore. there are plenty of remedies out there many from traditional medicine. things like castor oil. vera tea tree oil or marigold cream. but just how effective are they. generally speaking what's healed by themselves around half the time that means of the six to eight weeks fifty percent of all wars will have disappeared because the immune system takes care of them. so if you apply a home remedy such as tea tree oil during this period and the walk is the way you might think it was because of the treatment but in fact that water would probably have gone away anyway. so. that makes it hard to estimate the

efficacy of home remedies for wards but pharmacies also offer other over the counter solutions why it's myth turned to them to get rid of warts on his foot they've been plaguing him for five months and causing problems when walking to begin with he tried an acid tincture it's meant to soften up the warts crusty upper layer. of the tincture regularly but didn't get the desired result at all took such a long time and the word didn't go away the special ward plasters are another recommended option they certainly appear to be effective against the growth at least in the initial stages of treatment. salicylic acid which is used in many plasters is very helpful for reducing warts. because the compound destroys cells destroying the virus along with. it.

warts can also be frozen with liquid nitrogen although icing sprays are available in some pharmacies dermatological centers use far colder substances to freeze the warts some of them down to minus two hundred degrees celcius freezing them didn't help whites. chemical burning in cases like these doctors used to cut the word out now they use lasers to burn it out. there are two methods with one is the c o two laser essentially a pretty crude method the laser cuts the water out and you stick a plaster on the wound it takes a bit of time till it's properly healed and in the meantime you can't go barefoot outside because it can get in but it doesn't mean it's all gone at once. the other possibility is to use a dial which cuts off the wats nutrition source. it closes and quarter rises the blood vessels leading to it. both

treatments work when dealing with very persistent and deep rooted warts like those that sometimes appear on the soles of the feet why it opted for the dyed laser it has the advantage that performing the procedure doesn't require a local anaesthetic. but it can't be done in just one sitting like the c o two treatment can. come for his fourth dilator session. it doesn't really hurt that much getting a shot is actually worse that i've already seen an improvement the wart gets smaller from session to session. after one or two more of them with swart disappears forever. when you get hungry between you should stay away from chocolate bars like get a handful of nuts since that they will fill you up and they healthy. this is

fifths like all squirrels he can tell by sniffing a nut shell whether the nut inside is still good he's really got it cracked. this man is also a nutz. list researchers like professor mischa it lie have discovered that this type of food can protect us from some serious diseases. not such a positive impact on blood sugar and fat metabolism that reduces the risk of developing type two diabetes and cardiovascular disease such as high blood pressure we can assume that eating nuts regularly can prolong your life. but what is their secret researchers across the world are busy trying to find out at the university of munich they're conducting a study with walnuts one of the participants is detailed gashed that for eight

weeks he ate a good handful of nuts forty three grams every day. first eight weeks of eating nuts and then as a control eight weeks without nuts but with the same calorie intake. he was given a full medical checkup before and after the not diet he was amazed by the results. and never would have thought that eating walnuts regularly could produce this kind of result in a swift on the comment. the apparent impact of the nuts on cholesterol levels was particularly noteworthy the level of bad l.d.l. cholesterol sank by seven percent. this is the truth and this might help explain why patients who eat nuts regularly suffer fewer heart attacks we know that l.d.l. cholesterol plays a very very important role in increasing the risk of heart attack from and he told

the schmidt. close gashed it's has now become a not family not just because of the cholesterol he's actually lost weight since going on in not diet that's surprising given that nuts are packed with calories. while nuts for example are about sixty five percent fat while proteins only make up fifteen percent and it's another puzzle for researchers. there's growing evidence that eating nuts regularly can help us lose weight but that only applies if you don't eat not in addition to your normal meals but as a replacement for other foods. unlimited inspires a plan on board. the apparent slimming properties of nuts might also have another explanation when we munch on a whole nuts without chewing them completely a lot faster through the gut undigested. that's unfortunate

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