Seven Delicious and Gluten-Free Thanksgiving Recipes
Whether you are hosting Thanksgiving or want to bring a dish or two that everyone can enjoy, these recipes will serve your family well.
Can Elimination Diets Reverse Hashimoto’s, Identify Food Sensitivities?
Elimination diets reverse Hashimoto's? Could identifying and addressing food sensitivities reduce antibodies? Plus: how to do an elimination diet. Read on.
Gut problems can have different root causes
In the world of functional medicine, it has long been known that gut health is paramount to the health of the rest of the body. For decades we didn’t fully [...]
New study links PPIs to earlier death, chronic disease
If you struggle with heartburn or acid reflux, you just pop some pills for that, right? Turns out regular use of drugs to treat heartburn, acid reflux, and ulcers can [...]
Integrating ancient fiber needs into a modern diet
Although the produce section at the grocery store may look vast, it only represents a fraction of edible, nutritious, and tasty plant foods. It’s estimated there are more than 20,000 [...]
Staying thin is harder for young people than in the past
If you feel like you have a harder time staying slim than your grandparents did at your age, you are right. We are about 10 percent heavier than people in [...]
How to support optimal stomach acid for good digestion
When we go to the doctor with symptoms of acid reflux, gas, bloating and heartburn, typically the diagnosis of high stomach acid is based purely on symptoms — not a [...]
New study shows processed foods shorten your life
A new study shows regularly eating processed foods — the staple of most western diets — can shorten your life. In functional medicine, we know from the published research that [...]
Gut bacteria play a role in anorexia; eating disorders
People with eating disorders such as anorexia simply do not experience hunger and satiety in the same way people who have a healthy relationship with food do. New research suggests [...]
Viruses trigger Celiac disease + other autoimmune disease
Autoimmune disease is a modern epidemic in which your body’s immune system, which normally helps defend you from pathogens, mistakenly attacks your own organs and tissues. Current research tells us [...]