A healthy intestinal lining only allows properly digested food particles to pass through while simultaneously serving as a barrier to microorganisms and undigested foods from being absorbed into the bloodstream. At times the integrity of the intestinal wall is compromised for a number of reasons: food allergies, chronic stress, dysbiosis, enzyme deficiencies, pharmaceutical drug use, and inj ...

At some point in our lives each of us will face a health challenge. More often than we realize the delicate balance between an intricate network of chemical messengers is responsible for these challenges. These messengers - hormones - direct a range of activities in the body regulating our immunity, reproductive cycle, growth, metabolism, and mood.

The endocrine system produces and regulates ...

Burn out is far too common in our world. With it exhaustion, irritability, anxiety, insomnia, midday crashing, and stubborn abdominal weight gain are a constellation of symptoms very related and very treatable.

The tie that binds is the adrenal glands - two glands that regulate blood pressure, the mineral content of blood and the ever destructive Stress.

Conventionally the adrenals do not g ...

One of the most proven set of dietary modifications for reducing LDL fats in the body is called Dr. Jenkin's Portfolio Diet. Cholesterol reductions in studies have reached as high as 30 percent, roughly equivalent to statin medication. The guidelines are as follows in italics with a proceeding commentary:

1. Substitute soy foods for meat.
Drink soy milk instead of milk and substitute soy p ...

Oprah Winfrey has made undiagnosed thyroid dysfunction a popular condition in the media as of late. Her story is similar to that of so many people who suffer symptoms of thyroid disorder because these symptoms tend to be vague and often are mistakenly attributed to a number of different organ weaknesses. So why has hypothyroidism gone unrecognized?

Health care providers typically rely on T ...

VKDB (Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding) was a concern for the medical community to resolve - a problem that affected primarily breastfed infants. The worry was that breastfeeding women were not transferring enough vitamin K to their newborns and so needed to supplant their own stores if they planned on exclusively breastfeeding or have their baby injected prophylactic ally. Some questions were ...

We've heard the old adage, in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. In the world of Candida it's in the opportunity where difficulty lies. Candida, or Yeast, is considered an opportunistic fungus that generally peacefully co-habits our bodies with a myriad of other organisms. But, there are times when our body is weakened and yeast jumps at the chance to flourish and take over. An un ...

Dear Expectant Mother,

Morning sickness has, understandably like many "symptoms", been vilified in our society and has been treated as something to cure. As hard as it might be for some nauseous mom's-to-be to swallow, we have learned it is necessary for staying healthy far passed the baby's delivery.

We now know that nausea has a very important evolutionary role in that it prevents women f ...

One million Canadians are South Asian. They are amongst a general population at an accelerating risk for heart disease and type II diabetes. However, it is uncommonly known that South Asians are at a much greater risk of heart disease than many other populations. The current popular message conveyed to Canadians is to lower the now cliché bad cholesterol, LDL, and raise the good cholesterol, ...