Guest Post by Dr Mariah Mosley Acne scars? Fine lines/wrinkles? Uneven skin tone? Wanting a brighter complexion? At Nature Cure Family Health, we are now offering a cosmetic medical procedure that may be for you! Microneedling, also known as collagen induction therapy, is a minimally invasive treatment that helps rejuvenate [...]
We treat a lot of biotoxin illness (mold and Lyme or other tick-borne illnesses) and CIRS (Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome) at Nature Cure Family Health, using many of the principles first put forth by Dr Ritchie Shoemaker. There is a bit of a debate among doctors who treat biotoxin illness regarding whether [...]
Everything in the body is interconnected. We know that by now, right? Just like there’s a “gut-brain axis”, there’s also now the bile acid-gut microbiome axis as well. This is because the two are mutually reinforcing. I wrote here on how bile keeps SIBO in check, and therefore gallbladder dysfunction (or [...]
Lithium is a trace mineral that doesn’t get a lot of attention. It’s not included in most multivitamins. There hasn’t been a great deal of research historically into its effects in the body. It’s known best not as a mineral, but as a high dose pharmaceutical for the treatment of [...]
We’re entering the holiday season, which always makes me think of warming spices like cinnamon. The smell and flavor of cinnamon are due to an oil called cinnamaldehyde, which comprises about 90% of cinnamon’s essential oil. Cinnamaldehyde is believed to be the source of cinnamon’s spectacular array of health benefits. [...]
We know that there’s a huge connection between the gut and the brain—so much so that it’s got its own term: the gut-brain axis. We’ve also known for awhile that there is a definite relationship between the gut and mood regulation. Serotonin is the “happy” neurotransmitter best known for its [...]
If you have an excess of testosterone or androgen hormones such as in PCOS, or estrogen dominance, how does the body eliminate the excess? I wrote more extensively on finding and treating root causes for PCOS and estrogen dominance in the linked articles above. For this week’s article, I’m just [...]
Methylation involves taking a group of one carbon and three hydrogens (-CH3) from one biochemical compound and tacking it on to another. This changes the identity of both compounds. The process mostly refers to the “activation” of folate, and it involves passing the methyl group from one compound to another to [...]
Guest post by: Dr Mariah Mosley Diabetes mellitus is unfortunately becoming a very common disease. There are two well known types of DM: type 1 and type 2. But what are the differences between these, and what is this type 1.5 or type 3 being talked about? Type 1 Diabetes [...]
There are some period symptoms that are common but fixable in most cases (like PMS, cramping, and moodiness), and others that, for the most part, are physiologic (like bowel changes)--but it’s possible to mitigate them with a few habit changes. Sleep disruption around menses falls into the latter category, too, [...]