Too often, the gut is overlooked for the role it plays in our health and wellness. When you have intestinal permeability – otherwise known as leaky gut – all the things that are in your intestines can seep into the blood stream and your body. Gross, right? Leaky gut is also incredibly harmful to your …
No one wants a health problem to define who they are, but diabetes can truly test this conviction. Diabetics often feel like a slave to their condition. You’re married to your meds, suffer sometimes debilitating side effects, and feel restricted from enjoying everything in life that you want. Getting effective treatment and support and …
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Is Compromised Digestive Health Causing Your Depression? When you suffer with a mental illness like depression or anxiety, you may struggle to find the right balance of lifestyle choices, therapy, and medication to get you to a functional state of being. Has any doctor ever suggested, however, that some of your suffering could be alleviated …
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How many times have you thought: If I could just feel better life would be better? Getting to that “feel better” spot doesn’t have to be an uphill battle riddled with medications and doctor visits and tests that all add up to nothing. Balance can be achieved through a holistic approach to natural and instinctive …
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When you’re struggling with your health, you may see doctor after doctor to heal yourself, but this quest can be fruitless. You will be given prescriptions or instructions or sent for testing – but these efforts will never produce just one answer to solve your health problem. Relationships ebb and flow, but if a health …
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Featured Article By: David Brownstein, M.D. Available at: Dr. Brownsstein.com I began my interest in iodine over 12 years ago. Michigan, my home state, resides in the “Goiter Belt” of the United States, where the soil is deficient in iodine. Although I suspected iodine deficiency in many of his patients, my initial uses of potassium …
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Loomis 24 Hours Urinalysis The 24 hour urinalysis according to Loomis is a very important test used as part of a method to determine enzyme deficiencies. This test is not a medical diagnostic test. It prognostic rather than diagnostic. It is fundamentally about Digestive Competency. In other words, this test provides foresight as to what may …
Health is mobility. If your joints are like “rusty door hinges,” creaking, sticking and not moving, your camping trip will likely not happen because you have arthritis. Other people liken the pain of arthritis to a fire in the joints burning and constantly inflaming their tissues. Others use words like “gritty,” “grinding” and “popping” to …
© Paula Rothstein The old saying, “You are what you eat” no longer holds true with regards to today’s modern diet of over-processed/cooked food. Our diet is for the most part comprised of dead food. More appropriately, “We are what we are able to digest”. Enzymes are complex proteins in the body that cause chemical …
Source: University Of California San Diego Date: February 3, 2005 Science Daily — An enzyme that initiates inflammation has been directly linked to insulin resistance and resulting type II diabetes by researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine. In addition, the team suggests that inhibition of the enzyme in the immune system’s macrophages may be …