Image by webvilla from Pixabay Quercetin is a bioflavinoid found in a number of different common whole foods, including apples, cherries, dark berries, peppers, cruciferous veggies, leafy greens, green tea, citrus, tomatoes, cocoa, whole grains, asparagus, red wine, capers, and especially in onions. It’s also found in the herbs ginkgo, St John’s Wort, [...]
Guest post by Andrew Graham, NP; Image by Sabine Schulte from Pixabay Part 1: Celiac Disease Most people these days have at least heard about gluten, or have noticed the increasing popularity of gluten-free diets and gluten-free products. Gluten is a protein complex found in many cereal grains including wheat, barley and rye. [...]
Guest post by Karissa Carrington of sibosurvivor.com; Image by congerdesign from Pixabay Do you like to avoid prescription medicines for Irritable Bowel Syndrome? Herbs have the potential to keep up your gut health. The prescribed medicine might be effective and provide you with a good result within no time, but they come with [...]
Image by David Cortez from Pixabay Most of us think of LDL as “bad” cholesterol, while HDL is the “good” cholesterol. This is an oversimplification, though. LDL stands for Low Density Lipoprotein, while HDL stands for High Density Lipoprotein. These are carrier proteins for cholesterol and triglycerides. A standard lipid panel will not [...]
Image by FelixMittermeier from Pixabay Glyphosate, or N-phosphomethyl-glycine, has been the most common herbicide in use around the world for decades. It works by blocking a metabolic pathway which produces the amino acids phenylalanine, tyrosine, and tryptophan. Lacking these amino acids, the plant shrivels and dies. Given a mechanism of action like that, [...]
Image by Mircea Ploscar from Pixabay We’ve all heard that fiber is good for us. Butyrate is one of the primary reasons why. Butyrate is a short chain fatty acid produced from dietary fibers by bacterial fermentation in your colon. It’s the preferred food source for the colon, so of course it’s necessary [...]
Image by congerdesign from Pixabay I wrote here on how the liver detoxifies in general, and here on the process of elimination of sex hormones. As a quick recap, all substances that require detoxification go through two phases. Phase one can render substances more or less toxic than they were before. Either way, [...]
Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay ATP, the energy currency your body needs to live, is produced from your food by your mitochondria. These organelles are present inside every cell of the body except for red blood cells. Remarkably, while mitochondria can convert one glucose molecule into 38 ATP molecules, each fatty acid can [...]
Image by Alicia Harper from Pixabay Soil-based organisms (SBO) or spore-forming probiotics are terms often used interchangeably, as most soil-based organisms do form spores. They get their names from their habitat: they tend to be found in the soil. Historically, our ancestors ate food right out of the ground, so many of these [...]
Image by Ulrike Leone from Pixabay Conventional wisdom holds that nightshades cause inflammation, and particularly joint pain. Unfortunately, there are no lab tests to confirm this, nor are there any clear studies linking the two; it seems the connection is entirely anecdotal. That’s doesn’t necessarily mean there’s nothing to it, though. What Nightshades [...]