Eczema: What You Need To Know
If you suffer from eczema, you probably know how uncomfortable and inconvenient the condition is. Eczema is a common skin condition characterized by itchy, dry, and irritated skin. It typically [...]
Is Your Gut Healthy? How to Tell
How’s your gut health? A simple “gut check” is one of the most comprehensive ways to assess your overall well-being. Growing research points to the importance of the microbiome in [...]
How Your Gut Health Affects Your Mental Health
Recent years have seen a growing awareness of mental health issues, and, thankfully, more open conversations about addressing psychological challenges. However, many people remain unaware of new, exciting research on [...]
10 Proven Ways to Improve Your Digestion
Is your tummy begging for relief from gas, constipation, or nausea? Then you’ve got to read my 10 proven ways to improve your digestion.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Bad gut bacteria linked to hardening arteries, atherosclerosis
Unhealthy gut bacteria are a bigger risk for atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, than smoking, cholesterol levels, obesity, or diabetes. Atherosclerosis is the leading cause of heart disease. That’s [...]
How to keep your gut healthy while traveling abroad
Nothing refreshes the mental landscape better than an exciting trip to a foreign land. However, nothing can have you regretting that adventure more than being glued to the toilet with [...]
Journey Through the Gut — The Hashimoto’s Guide to Digestion
We live in a time of unprecedented abundance of food and medical advances yet we are sicker than ever. It is common now to suffer from Hashimoto’s, PMS, depression, chronic [...]
Got seasonal allergies? Fix your gut
When the sneezing, sniffling, and runny eyes of springtime kick in, most people grab for the allergy pills, antihistamines, and eye drops. But did you know you can greatly relieve [...]