By Christine M. Dionese, NaturalHealth365 Many of my patients grew up thinking butter was a ‘poor’ food choice. So, they’re often happily surprised to learn about the health-enhancing superfood ghee, or clarified butter oil. Abundant in vitamins and essential fatty acids, ghee has been shown…
Lesley Tierra, Planet Herbs Too often we find Western herbs pigeon-holed into convenient commercialized boxes. While this expands people’s interest in natural healing, it also limits herbs to one particular application such as echinacea for colds, hawthorn for the heart, St. John’s wort for depression,…
By Heather Callaghan Do you know what an amazing healing food homemade sauerkraut is? According to Dr. Smith’s website, it is the number one probiotic – loaded with the highest amounts of healthy bacteria ready to rescue the gut flora. Gut flora – an important…
Natural Blaze An apple a day could keep obesity away Granny Smiths promote friendly bacteria Scientists at Washington State University have concluded that nondigestible compounds in apples – specifically, Granny Smith apples – may help prevent disorders associated with obesity. The study, thought to be…
Can chronic dehydration fast forward your clock too fast? Age you? Wear you down? Are feeling sick and tired but haven’t tried the most simplest remedy available to mankind? How will know you can’t help your digestion, your blood flow, your focus, your sleep –…
By Katie Reid, Unblind my Mind “We Are Only 10% Human” was the title of a previous post introducing our microflora. That may sound like an outrageous claim, but in all seriousness, microbial cells in the body outnumber human cells by 10 to one and…
Study shows managing gut parasites may be healthier than harshly eliminating them as “simple nutritional supplements could be an effective way to promote tolerance in people.” In the first evidence that natural selection favors an individual’s infection tolerance, researchers from Princeton University and the University…
New study ponders impact of Western food and GMOs on posterity’s genes… By Heather Callaghan Through the emerging information from epigenetics – the study of environmental exposure on genes – it becomes apparent that we are not the body equivalent to Las Vegas. What happens…
By switching off a single gene, scientists at Columbia University’s Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center have converted human gastrointestinal cells into insulin-producing cells, demonstrating in principle that a drug could retrain cells inside a person’s GI tract to produce insulin. The new research was reported today…
By Heather Callaghan Would you be fascinated to know that there is a journal Gut? Just Gut. One journal completely devoted to gut studies in the realm of gastroenterology. As far science trends are concerned, the gut has become a sexy topic, if you can…
The germ Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most stomach ulcers, but new research in Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics suggests that treating the bacteria is linked to weight gain. It is estimated that 50% of the global population may be infected with H. pylori; however,…
The nutritional factor that has the greatest impact on the development of a child’s gut flora is whether the child is breastfed, according to a new study by the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, and the University of Copenhagen. The study shows that…
By James Maskell Of all the areas of research in medicine and wellness at the moment, the most fascinating is on the germs that live on us and inside us all. We have all heard of ‘good bacteria‘ and ‘bad bacteria’ but the new research…
by Dr. Kelly Brogan Every functional medicine psychiatrist has case stories of the ‘probiotic cure’ – of a patient with debilitating symptoms, often obsessive compulsive range, whose symptoms remitted completely with dietary change and probiotic supplementation. Is this voodoo or is it based on a…
By Karen Foster There’s no doubt about it, bacteria keep us alive. They’re thought to encode more than 3 million genes in the body, and this complexity of bugs may also be responsible for immune dysfunction that begins with a “failure to communicate” in the…
