The Power of Digestive Herbs… And Which Ones Matter Most Digestion… The under-appreciated process that drives life and well being. Digestion begins once food enters the mouth, where chewing and saliva start the break down process. A quick swallow and consumables are sent to the stomach, ready for the real action to commence. As the acids and enzymes transform…
Often new patients come into our practice complaining of tiredness, where the alarm disturbs rather than wakes and getting up and ready for each day is difficult. Coffee is reported as an indispensible best friend, although it doesn’t ease the brain fog or poor memory. Energy slumps snatch their focus at around 3-5pm and 7-10pm, yet if they stay up…
Can Brain Power Restore Your Health and Reduce Your Physiological Age? Do you ever feel like you are not in command of your health and your life? Would you like to get that control back? This is a common problem in today’s society. We’ve been conditioned to believe that circumstances outside our control are responsible for our problems. But is…
Vitamin K… Have you heard of this potent health improving nutrient? Chances are you may not have. While research into vitamin K has expanded over the last eight decades since its discovery in 1935, leading to a greater understanding of the importance of this nutrient and insights into the variety of effects it has in our bodies, it is still…
Best Practices For Optimal Stomach Acid & Digestion Sometimes bloating, belching or heartburn after a meal is nothing but a fleeting irritation, but all too often it becomes a chronic problem. When patients feel overly full, develop severe heartburn, continually bloat or belch, or their doctor diagnoses them with gastrointestinal disease, something is clearly amiss. The Digestive System & Immunity…
The us health care system is broken. Special interest groups are controlling public policy and we suffer. Functional medicine is the health care of the future ( I hope and pray) http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/10/americans-sicker-die-younger
I just read that Hostess is closing down. As a kid I loved Twinkies and Ho Ho’s and do not forget wonder bread, so there is a powerful nostalgia built into me. As an adult with children and a doctor with chronically ill patients I see the harm that these products cause our population. The important point that came to…
As many of my patients know I put a lot on attention to your GI (gastrointestinal) system and getting it functioning optimally. I read study after study demonstrating how far reaching gut health is on overall health from thyroid issues to depression and weight loss you name it the GI system is involved. This article states what I have been…