FUT2 Gene Mutations & Your Gut Flora
The FUT2 gene is integral in gut health. FUT2 creates instructions for a process known as fucosylation. Fucosylation involves the addition of a fucose sugar molecule to the micro villi…
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Adrenals & The Gut: Blood Sugar, Trauma & The Overload Of Stress
In many ways, the issue of adrenal fatigue can be thought of as a lack of coordination between various endocrine glands in the HPA axis. In the past I’ve written…
Healing The Intestines: Returning to the Use of Traditional Food As Medicine
Healing gut and intestinal mucosal barrier function is about normalizing the intestinal flora. It is a fact that 80% of the immune defenses of the body is the intestinal bacteria.…
Gut Repair: Short Chain Fatty Acids (SCFA’s)
Many individuals today have extraordinary gut inflammation, leaky gut and dysbiosis. When the gut is in such a state of degradation, there is a high amount of toxicity and dysregulation…
Gut Function: Intestinal Mucosal Barrier
The intestinal mucosal barrier is said to be the body’s second skin. From the mouth to the anus, there is a mucosal barrier, which serves as the first line of…
Protecting Yourself From Environmental Toxicity: 5 Ways to Detoxify
The incidence of chemical and heavy metal toxicity has reached epidemic proportions. In a 2009 study, The Environmental Working Group reported an average of 232 environmental chemicals in the umbilical…
Raw Dairy Is a Nutritional Powerhouse: Pasteurized Dairy Is Dead
Purchasing raw dairy is illegal in most states. The FDA is apparently more concerned with protecting big agra business and government subsidized commercial dairy than approving real food. Yet if…
HTMA: How the “Low Minerals” Pattern Reveals Poor Digestive Function
“All diseases begin in the gut.” -Hippocrates, 460-370 BC Hair tissue mineral analysis is a laboratory biopsy that can reveal a lot about mineral activity in the tissues. The “Low…
Summary Of Standard Process’ Weekend Nutrition Seminar in Berkeley
The Berkeley, CA hotel was jam packed with perhaps 100-125 alternative health professionals. The event was a 2-day seminar hosted by the long-standing nutritional supplement company Standard Process, featuring presentations…
How to Help Your Body Detoxify
Detoxification has become one of the key flagship words in alternative health and alternative medicine. Millions of people every year go on various detox diets, or detox supplements of some…