Anemia and Advantages of Heme Iron Supplementation Take a deep breath, because without iron, there is no cellular respiration! This trace metal allows oxygen to...
Today, treatment with probiotics (from “pro-,” meaning “for,” and “bio,” meaning “life,” hence “for-life”) has become one of the pillars of contemporary naturo...
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a functional disorder of the digestive system, specifically the intestines, that results in symptoms of chronic diarrhea and/o...
An Unexpected Silver Lining While pondering about this year’s Celiac Disease Awareness Month, I was surprised by how my thoughts kept making a beeline to the gi...
“Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.” —Hippocrates, the father of medicine. Food—Your Foundation of Health Nutrients from food (carbo...
Is Dairy Good For You? Now, This is a Hot Topic It’s not surprising that it’s become so controversial. Between the American Food Pyramid and the Canadian Food G...
Hypothyroidism: What Is It? Hypothyroidism is a term used to describe an underactive thyroid gland. Hypothyroidism is further classified according to “type”: su...
Alright, we’ve oversimplified this a little; however, there is definitely a correlation between the presence of healthy Lactobacillus species within the gut and...
The incidence of cancer has never been higher. We are seeing a steady increase in cases each year. It is estimated that in 2016 we saw 1.6 million new cases, wi...
A healthy immune system is self-recognizing—it can recognize healthy cells as “self” and foreign cells as “nonself.” Bacteria, fungi, viruses, chemicals, partic...
Liver health or “liver detox” is a term we hear a lot in the realm of complementary medicine. Our popular understanding of the liver, however, tends to oversimp...
Eating well and keeping active are a couple of risk factors within our control. If the majority of your food has a barcode, you’re eating too many processed foo...
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