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May 3, 2021 · Gut HealthUnderstanding SIBO — 7 Things to Know If You’re Struggling With Gut Troubles
There are any number of belly-based ills that can make life very uncomfortable. Ailments like gas, bloating, constipation, diarrhea, IBS or all of the above can, in addition to making you feel lousy, interfere with your body’s ability to get nutrients to where they’re needed, negatively impact your mental and emotional well-being and set you up for serious health problems down the road. One possible underlying cause of all this unhappiness? SIBO, or small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. Trouble is, medical professionals often overlook it or misdiagnose it.
Apr 26, 2021 · Gut HealthThe Gut Sleep Connection: 15 Ways a Healthy Belly Helps Sleep
An out-of-rhythm lifestyle can throw off the gut and your sleep. And an out-of-rhythm gut can throw your entire life off-kilter – and screw up your sleep to boot. Conversely, good gut health can facilitate good sleep. So, the better you tend to your gut, the easier it will be to fall asleep and stay asleep.
Mar 29, 2021 · Gut Health13 Easy Ways to Upgrade Your Digestion Now
Digestion is one of those routine bodily processes you probably don’t pay much attention to. That is, until ills like bloating, diarrhea and/or constipation rear their ugly head. While some people just try to ride it out, frequent gastrointestinal distress isn’t ‘normal.’ Rather, it’s your body’s way of telling you that your digestion needs some TLC.
Mar 15, 2021 · Gut Health10 Essential Ways to Protect Your Gut Microbiome
A happy, trouble-free gut is the key to keeping your entire body healthy, and never more so than when we’re (still) in the midst of a pandemic. The stronger and more resilient your gut is – and the more harmoniously balanced the trillions of bacteria that live there -- the better your heart, brain, immune system and just about every other part of your body will function.
Feb 15, 2021 · Gut Health5 Ways the Gut Strengthens Immunity and Wellbeing
Even with vaccines starting to roll out, everyone still needs to keep focused on what they can do for their own immunity. With more easily spread mutations unloosed and clusters and spikes still to be battled through, it will be months before the world can truly breathe a sigh of relief, if we’re lucky. Until then, your best immunity defense – whether you’ve had the shots or not – is to keep your gut in tip-top shape: to feed it, care for it and tend it like your life depends on it because it does.
Jan 29, 2021 · Gut Health6 Ways an Out-of-Balance Gut Affects Your Well-Being
The community of bacteria living in your body have a bigger impact than you may realize — from your mood to your heart health.
Oct 5, 2020 · Gut Health4 Ways A Healthy Microbiome Keeps You Young
So, if your goal is to slow down the aging process, there’s lots you can do to put the brakes on. One of the most important anti-aging moves you can make? Stopping inflammation. I’m talking about the fire that burns in cells throughout your body, wreaking enormous havoc and making you old and tired, and quite possibly sick, way before your time.
Oct 2, 2020 · Gut HealthCan Garlic Help Heal the Gut?
Turns out garlic is great for ulcers, food poisoning, and gut dysbiosis. Here’s why — and how to get more garlic in your diet.
Jan 17, 2020 · Gut Health6 Ways an Out-of-Balance Gut Affects Your Well-Being
The community of bacteria living in your body have a bigger impact than you may realize — from your mood to your heart health.
Sep 27, 2019 · Gut HealthA Healthy Gut Makes a Healthy Heart
Despite the fact that I am a functional and integrative cardiologist, I often look first at a patient’s gut health to shed light on the underlying cause of heart disease. What could the gut possibly have to do with the heart? It’s all about inflammation.
Aug 12, 2019 · Gut HealthHeal Your Gut with Fabulous Fermented Foods
Everyone talks about fermented foods and by now you probably know you need them to help keep your gut healthy. But, let’s be honest here, are you actually eating your fair share? If not, you’re missing out on one of Mother Nature’s easiest gut health hacks!
Jul 22, 2019 · Gut HealthHow to Heal Leaky Gut and Repair the Gut Lining
For a lot of my patients, especially those dealing with digestive and autoimmune problems, what stands between them and feeling great is an insidious but fixable problem we in the integrative health world call ‘leaky gut,’ or gut ‘permeability.’ If low-grade ills are dragging you down, leaky gut should probably be on your radar…
May 6, 2019 · Gut Health11 Ways to Love Your Microbiome
It turns out we have many more one-celled bacteria living inside the human body than we have human cells that make up our bodies – and most of them live in the gut. There, trillions of these “bugs,” collectively known as the microbiome, handle some pretty crucial functions that we couldn’t live without.
Feb 25, 2019 · Gut HealthHow Your Microbiome Affects Every Aspect of Your Health
Many of my patients are shocked to learn that their microbome, this microscopic community that lives on and in them, plays such a vital role in their health and well-being, including their weight, their mental state, and their moods.
Feb 1, 2019 · Gut HealthHow to Significantly Decrease the Hormone Disrupting Chemicals in Your Kitchen
When patients come to me for help in taking charge of their health, one of the changes I encourage each of them to make is to limit their exposure to toxins – specifically to rid themselves of as many Endocrine Disruptors (EDs) as possible. But why the fuss over Endocrine Disruptors? It’s pretty simple: EDs are chemicals that interfere with hormone signalling and wreak havoc on your entire endocrine system.