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Don’t let your microflora break your heart!...or bones…or brain…or joints…or…

Don’t let your microflora break your heart!...or bones…or brain…or joints…or…

February is Heart Health month. So of course, I’d like to speak to you about your …gut!

Once laughed at by conventional medicine, dysbiosis (imbalanced intestinal flora) is now verified to be a major cause of disease.

There is an explosion of research in the field of microflora or microbiome. These terms refer to the bacteria and other organisms that naturally inhabit our gastrointestinal tract. The skin and other body surfaces also are home to bacteria. The composition of your microbiome is a major determinant of your health.

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How Healthy Are You?

How Healthy Are You?

A Multi-Faceted Approach to Measuring Health & Wellness

Many individuals are walking around with an illusion of health. Some of these people don't feel all that well but because they get a "clean bill of health" at their yearly physical, they conclude they must really be healthy. The truth is that a conventional medical evaluation is well-suited to pick up some but not all advanced physical breakdown and certainly not earlier-stage, more subtle dysfunction.

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The Most Under-Appreciated Factor in Health & Aging.

The Most Under-Appreciated Factor in Health & Aging.

Glycation: The Single Most Important Factor in Degenerative Disease and Aging and Chances Are You Haven't Heard of It

There are more than 7000 published papers on the subject of glycation. Glycation is the process of interaction of sugars with proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids, giving rise to damaged tissue. Crust formation as bread bakes is also the result of glycation. You may like crust on your bread but you don't want crust forming in your body! When sugar binds and alters a protein, the resulting sugar-damaged molecule is called an Advanced Glycation Endproduct (AGE). It turns out that AGE is an appropriate acronym, as these altered biomolecules do indeed play a major role in biological aging.

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Depressed? It's all in your...Gut!?

Depressed? It's all in your...Gut!?

 

The Mind-Body Continuum

As crazy as it may sound, many cases of depression stem from an unhealthy state in the gastrointestinal tract. When you think of depression what organ do you think of? Probably the brain, right? The brain is important when it comes to depression but the brain does not function in a vacuum. The old song goes something like: "The knee bone's connected to the shin bone. The shin bone's connected to the ankle bone. The ankle bone's..."  The brain is connected to the "gut".

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Natural Allergy Relief

Natural Allergy Relief

Allergy - It's something in the air...and in your blood

It's that time of year when millions of people are miserable from allergy symptoms. Allergy symptoms result from the immune system's attack against a harmless substance. Although this is the worst time of year for many allergy sufferers, allergies can manifest year round. "Hay-fever" or seasonal allergies, involves allergy to grasses, weeds and tree pollen. Other types of common allergies involve dust mites, mold, foods, animals, and insects.

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The Toxicity-Diabetes Connection

The Toxicity-Diabetes Connection

Environmental Toxins are Endocrine Disruptors

As amazing as it may sound, toxicity can contribute to obesity and diabetes. Animal research and human epidemiological (correlative) studies have shown that xenobiotics (literally: foreign to life) or man-made chemicals that contaminate our environment, do indeed play a role in obesity, diabetes, autoimmune disease, autism, cancer, heart disease, psychiatric conditions, infertility and...virtually all the chronic degenerative diseases. Right now, our focus is on diabetes.

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