“Nearly 60 to 70 percent of us take at least one prescribed drug, depending upon the estimate; for many it amounts to a fistful, potpourri of pills per day. Meanwhile, new drug approvals have reached a 19-year high. It’s a mark cheered notably for the swift minting of medications to tackle so-called “orphan diseases,” rare…
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Most people think of pregnancy when they hear the word ‘progesterone’, but progesterone is far more important that just the magical hormone that makes the baby “stick”. Without adequate progesterone, we cannot properly produce testosterone, cortisol or estrogen. And without adequate progesterone, estrogen goes unopposed which is the beginning of the hellacious cycle many of…
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When most people hear the words “Castor Oil”, it brings to mind grandmas’ remedy for constipation. A 2011 study in Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, did show that it had a positive effect on people suffering from constipation, but how the castor oil accomplishes this is unknown. Common sense tells me that it lubes up…
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Nutrition and the health of the human body is an ever changing field of study. As we all know, one day butter will kill you and the next it’s life changing mana from heaven. One day cholesterol is causing coronaries, they next it’s not the demon we thought it was. And for this reason, anyone…
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Can you please digest my food for me? Thanks. In all my years of working with fermentation, its magical qualities never cease to amaze me. Besides the fact that fermenting food increases the nutritional value up to 100 times, the bacteria also consume the difficult to digest properties that make food easier for YOU to…
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Being healthy is a full time job! I have been on the pursuit of outrageous health for a LONG time. And to be perfectly honest I get so sick of it sometimes. I get sick of my own voice telling people to do things that I know are so hard to do. Like enemas, and…
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I am sick of my diets and eating habits! In all my efforts with my health, something that I have never fully been happy with has been my diet! Yes I have had success with The Body Ecology Diet and with the Ketogenic Diet and with my very own Total Gut Makeover. But it isn’t…
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Since the beginning of man, we’ve known that humans acquired beneficial bacteria from the foods growing in soil that had high bacterial counts and when man discovered fermentation as a way to preserve foods, the fermentation process increased this bacterial count tremendously, adding to the human beings already diverse microbiome. But a few major…
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Never has it ever been as important as it is TODAY to understand how to support, feed, nourish, heal your micro biome. You are 90% bacteria and 10% human. THEY RUN THE SHOW! And if you don’t know how to help facilitate the production of that show you suffer, you struggle, you lose.…
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My interview w/Nylon Magazine: – How does our gut health affect our bodies as a whole (skin, weight, mood, etc.)? Our immune system is primarily run by out gut or our enteric nervous system. The microbes or beneficial bacteria in our gut are in charge of many tasks like sending chemical messages to the brain…
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