More often than not, factors in your diet are the primary cause of gut health issues like leaky gut, gas, bloating, abdominal pain, constipation or diarrhea, and more. These are things you can control in your life and for the most part a healthy gut-friendly diet can help to prevent more serious issues like autoimmune disease. If you turn your ...
What’s For Dinner? Feeding Your Gut Bacteria
It seems that a day doesn't go by when some kind of report comes out professing the importance of the gut microbiome and those trillions of microbes. The data is fairly overwhelming: what we eat significantly affects the makeup of our gut flora. So what does this mean for personal nutrition, diets and overall optimal health? Will the "Microbiome ...
5 Strategies For Getting A Good Night’s Sleep
We all want to wake up feeling rested and refreshed from a good night's sleep mind and body ready to dive into the day. Unfortunately, for many of us, that's not how our mornings usually begin. Millions of people do not get enough sleep and many suffer from lack of sleep (for sometimes days at a time). A good night's rest impacts everything, ...
Mind-Body Wisdom For Self-Healing
We carry within each of us, in the mind-body connection, the seeds of healing. These reside in our cells, genes, memories, and collective awareness. Wellness is the sincere desire to open our awareness fully and completely to the mind-body (and spirit) connection and the possibility of letting this innate knowledge direct the course of our ...
The Brain-Gut Connection
In a world where the body is viewed holistically as a group of interrelated systems that all rely on each other, the brain-gut connection makes perfect sense. Your brain does more than just think and do and your gut is so much more than a food processor. There is an undeniable strong bond between these two systems that governs everything... from ...
ReThinking Wellness
Don't fail at your health. Rather pivot your mindset and expand your horizons beyond what you've been taught all your life about wellness or what the system dictates you should do. Did you know that chronic disease is the biggest challenge we face in healthcare today? Incredibly, the scale of chronic disease killers overshadows many other kinds ...
Predicting Autoimmune Disease
What would you give to have a crystal ball to see whether you'll get diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer's, or one of hundreds of known autoimmune diseases? And if you actually knew that you were headed straight towards a head-on collision with a serious health condition, why would you waste a single second not taking action to prevent it? If you are ...
The 5 Most Common Gut Health Mistakes People Make
The road back to good health has to start somewhere... and that place is the gut. Did you know that 60-70 million Americans are diagnosed every year with gut-related illness? They suffer from a host of symptoms from abdominal pain, constipation and diarrhea to leaky gut, infections and bacterial overgrowth. On top of these symptoms, there are ...
The 5 Most Important Gut Health Tests
What if there was a way to detect root causes of your gut issues (including a leaky gut!) or other chronic symptoms stemming from excess inflammation? There is... and you don't have to fast, swallow strange dyes, or do invasive procedures in your intestines or colon. You can do a "selfie" of your gut and microbiome... it's simple, quick, and ...
Will You Be Diagnosed with an Autoimmune Disease?
If you live in the U.S., you have a 1-in-5 chance of being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease like cardio vascular, diabetes, Hashimoto's, Lupus, Crohn's, cancer, even Alzheimer's. Your chances are even greater if you are a woman. Some reports suggest that 75% of autoimmune cases are women and it may take years to get a proper ...