
Dr. Heather Armstrong
@drharmstrong
🇳🇿🇨🇦🇦🇺 Tier 2 CRC and A/Prof Internal Medicine @UM_RadyFHS | Peds @UAlberta_FoMD | #inflammation #nutrition #microbes #IBD #cancer | IBD patient | she/her
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Edward Loftus covering the latest updates in UC therapy. Take home message: I went to Fergburger. I stood in line. I got a burger. It was pretty good. Real take home…👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻.


At the launch of the King's College London Root to Tip project about how to get more fibre into meals and reduce fruit and vegetable wastage. Would you believe there is data on peel eating! >75% never eat kiwi skin! 😱 #EatRootToTip



Over a decade since I collaborated with world-class epidemiologist Gil Kaplan MD MPH and his team, here is our long awaited paper out in nature reporting for the first time evolution of #ibd across 4 stages Helmsley Charitable Trust IOIBD CUHK Medicine GIVES-21 nature.com/articles/s4158…

When it comes to fiber in #IBD, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach Kate Scarlata, MPH, RDN presents important work from Dr. Heather Armstrong & colleagues - more tomorrow at a session on the downsides of high fiber consumption #DDW2025 Digestive Disease Week


More findings from William Chey & colleagues on the role of Med diet in #IBS Also there is a space for other similar approaches such as NiMe Diet Jens Walter Kudos to Heidi Staudacher PhD AdvAPD for such an inspiring talk and for acknowledging the mental health nuances when implementing a


Why are we moving away from fecal microbiota transplantation in inflammatory bowel disease and other chronic diseases? We need more refined and targeted approaches which can be standardized and reliable. Harry Sokol #DDW2025



⌚ Physiological Data Collected From Wearable Devices Identify and Predict #IBD Flares. Want to learn more? Click the link below: 🔗 ow.ly/IVmt50VMXU4 🖋️ Robert Hirten MD


Siew Ng: Food emulsifiers are the new kids in the block and can negatively impact #IBD risk and offspring outcomes The good news is that a healthy diet can partly restore industrialization impact on health Jens Walter #DDW2025 Digestive Disease Week


Thanks to our Digestive Disease Week chair Verdu Lab & co-speakers Christopher Gardner & Vijay Kumar - understanding fibre-microbiome-host interactions and the clinical considerations for next steps to translating findings - how do we support safe and personalized increase in fibre intake?


It was great to attend the first human trial showing a low emulsifier diet is safe and effective and improves food-related quality of life in patients with moderate Crohn’s disease Diet research is so challenging, so we applaud Aaron Bancil, Kevin Whelan, The Gut Health Doctor | Dr Megan Rossi (RD, PhD),


📩 Take home from our talks Christopher Gardner Digestive Disease Week is the importance of ⬆️ fibre intake & ⬆️ variety of dietary fibres consumed as they all have differing benefits for host & microbiome. Dietitian support is 🔑 for those struggling with symptoms/concerns on high fibre diets 🥦

Expanding our work in collaboration with GEM Project with dietary fibre intake data run by our teams very own Reihane Khorasani and members of the GEM team Toronto Immune and Digestive Health Institute associating findings with clinical and microbiome data ⬆️ intake of specific fibers protective against CD dx?




🏆 Congratulations to all the awardees from last night's #RhAwards ceremony uManitoba Research Dr. Can-Ming Hu, Dr Erkinbaev, Dr Liang, Ms Diallo, Dr Pylypjuk, Dr Longo, and Dr Thille news.umanitoba.ca/rh-awards-reco…

It's feasible to integrate fermented foods into dietary recommendations This review from Justin Sonnenburg, Christopher Gardner & colleagues updates mechanisms of action that support health benefits of fermented foods and new ways to expand research: loom.ly/SZOj8qY


Our manuscript on what we know about biological #sex and #IBD published in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology is available free this month as a part of the special Focus on IBD in the June issue for anyone interested in taking a look! UAlberta Med & Dent U of M Rady Faculty Jean-Eric Ghia nature.com/articles/s4157…