By Brock Ingham Your colon plays an important part in maintaining a healthy body. Not only does it house all the unwanted waste your body is trying to get rid of, but it also plays host to some 100 trillion beneficial bacteria. These bacteria aid…
By Brandon Turbeville and Heather Callaghan Can anyone really forget the alluring aroma of lavender? There is an oft-told story that highlights just one of the profound healing benefits of lavender essential oil. In 1910 French chemist and scholar René-Maurice Gattefossé burnt his hand during an…
By Brandon Turbeville and Heather Callaghan By now you are probably familiar with acidophilus, if nothing else, then from celebrity endorsed probiotic yogurt commercials. That’s because this friendly strain of bacteria has made it into the big leagues of scientific and media acceptance, stemming perhaps…
By Catherine J Frompovich According to urine tests taken in the European Union rather recently, 48 members of the EU Parliament volunteered to have their urine tested and ALL tests came back positive! [1] According to the article titled “We are pissed off” [1], The…
By Daily Superfood Love No one really enjoys thinking about their inner belly. I like things to just…you know, chug along like they’re supposed to. But there are times that things get out of whack. Getting them back on track has to be a priority….
By Natural Blaze Eating walnuts may change gut bacteria in a way that suppresses colon cancer, researchers led by UConn Health report in the journal Cancer Prevention Research. A team of researchers from UConn Health and The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine found that mice…
By Jake Van Der Borne We already know that inflammation is the likely cause of a multitude of health conditions, including arthritis, asthma, cancer, chronic pain, headaches, depression, and heart disease. Many experts believe that inflammation begins in the gut. Having a healthy digestive system…
By Heather Callaghan Researchers find that smoking alters crucial mouth and gut bacteria According to Gerry Curatola, DDS who spoke at the recent Microbiome Medicine Summit, everything you ingest or use to rinse or brush can disrupt the delicate flora of your mouth. Yes, even antibacterial…
By Michelle Toole Why use coconut milk in yogurt? Not only is coconut milk a great way to safely enjoy yogurt if you’re on a vegan or dairy-free diet, it also provides great health benefits to anyone on any diet. Coconuts are a source of…
Adapted from A Mind of Your Own by Kelly Brogan, MD If you’re diagnosed with depression, then chances are you can relate to any of the following: persistent distress, malaise, anxiety, inner agitation, fatigue, low libido, poor memory, irritability, insomnia, sense of hopelessness, and feeling…
By Kelly Brogan, MD Psychiatry is notorious for saying “oops!” for a long history of abusing patients with pseudoscience-driven treatments and its shameful lack of diagnostic rigor. From the 1949 Nobel Prize for therapeutic lobotomy to theRosenhan experiments in the 70s which exposed the invalidity of…
By Kelly Brogan, MD Sometimes, it just takes one case to bring an entire medical construct to its knees. Because if the current model can’t encompass it, then the model must evolve to accommodate the seeming outlier. Currently, psychiatry is in a freefall. With its…
By Jesse Alvarado In certain traditional medicines, one of the main tools practitioners use for determining the cause of someone’s illness is through tongue diagnosis or evaluation of the tongue. The tongue is the first step on the digestive tract, which stretches for about 30…
By Daily Superfood Love We all want a healthy brain. After all, our squishy gray matter is our control tower, researchers at MIT discovered that the human brain can process images and interpret them in just a mere 13 milliseconds. And that’s not all…every day…
By Marisa Brenizer The nearly-fanatical obsession with probiotics has been thriving for roughly a decade, but recently a new contender has been ushered into the spotlight – prebiotics. According to the MRC Dunn Clinical Nutrition Centre in Cambridge, prebiotics are: …nondigestible food ingredients that beneficially affect…
By Jesse Alvarado With the holidays fast approaching, one thing that I can’t wait for and always look forward to is the food. I know, I know, being with family is what the holidays are all about. And I love that, I really do. But…
By Paul Fassa A young teenager who had to be rescued out of a lake in which he had nearly drowned was infected with bacteria, supposedly, that “triggered” his Crohn’s disease, an extremely debilitating inflammation of the bowels and intestines that can be terminal. The…
By April McCarthy Recent findings published in the journal Cell Metabolism show that bacteria in your gut control exactly when and how much you eat. Researchers have found that 20 minutes after a meal, bacteria produce proteins that influence activation of appetite-regulating neurons in the…
By Catherine J. Frompovich As the sciences involving food, nutrition and eating—yes, eating, which everyone obviously doesn’t consider a science—evolve, we begin to learn more and more about how food is the third most important element to life and living for all humans. The first…
By Dr. Matthew Buckley, PSc.D., Guest If you were to do research into alternative therapies that appear to be providing clear results to the autistic community, you’d be hard pressed to find anything as impressive as the results that people are finding in using a protocol…
