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Is SIBO Causing Your Health Issues?

Is SIBO Causing Your Health Issues?

What is SIBO? SIBO stands for small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. Simply put there is an excessive number of bacteria that are found in this part of your digestive tract that follows immediately after your stomach. The small intestine is a long narrow tube with...
Immune System Questionnaire

Immune System Questionnaire

How is That Immune System of Yours Working???  What you will find below are quick questionnaires outlining different health issues and symptoms associated with immune system involvement. Take the time to fill these out honestly and to the best of your knowledge. In...
Immunity and Your Gut

Immunity and Your Gut

You might say that your gut is your immune system! It is estimated that approximately 70% of your entire immune system resides in the lining of your digestive tract/gut.  In our previous newsletter, we listed the other major immune organs and how stress influences...
Allergies and Histamine

Allergies and Histamine

Most everyone has heard of antihistamines like Allegra, Benadryl, Claritin, and Zyrtec for addressing allergies and related symptoms. In addition, there is another class of antihistamines used for heartburn and gastric reflux such as, Axid, Pepcid, Tagamet and Zantac....
Far Infrared Therapy

Far Infrared Therapy

We offer state of the art far infrared treatments that are performed in a private, enclosed, comfortable, dry sauna using untreated, natural aspen wood.  So, there is no outgassing that may come from other types of wood or treated materials. Specialized ceramic...
What are GMOs?

What are GMOs?

GMO stands for genetically modified organisms or sometimes referred to as transgenic. The original concept for GMOs seemed to be a good one where farmers could raise these new plants with less pesticides, herbicides and increase their yields. Does not sound bad,...
Insomnia

Insomnia

Most people require 6-8 hours of uninterrupted REM sleep. Not getting this can lead to many health issues and the body is incapable of repairing itself without this deep sleep. The first thing to think of if you wake up after a few hours is consider what you ate...
The Truth Behind Low Testosterone

The Truth Behind Low Testosterone

When one thinks about testosterone we often think of it in terms of only a male hormone. Well, the only thing truthful about this is that men do have much larger amounts of testosterone than women, but testosterone plays a very important role in women as well. So low...
Understanding Stress

Understanding Stress

Exactly what is stress? Most of us will immediately think of something that would cause us mental/emotional stress like our job, spouse, family or other relationships. Well, that is true but, stress can come in several different forms that we might not think about or...
The Yeasty Beast – Candida

The Yeasty Beast – Candida

What is Candida? It is a group of yeast organisms that are in the fungal family which are related to mushrooms. Candida is normally found in about 80% of all human beings. They are primarily located in the intestines, mouth and skin. Most of the time we are not even...
The Prostate Gland

The Prostate Gland

What exactly is the prostate gland? It is a donut shaped gland that weighs about an ounce and is about the size of a walnut. It is located below the bladder and just in front of the rectum. The prostate wraps around the urethra which is the tube that allows urine to...
PCOS – The Most Common Hormone Disorder

PCOS – The Most Common Hormone Disorder

What exactly is PCOS? PCOS stands for polycystic ovarian syndrome. This imbalance can occur prior to puberty, during adolescence, from age 20- 50’s and into postmenopausal ages. So, this hormonal imbalance can occur throughout most of a women’s lifetime! Furthermore,...
Stress

Stress

Most people will automatically recognize the word stress and are aware of stress in their daily lives. We generally use the word stress when we feel everything has become too much, we are overloaded and wonder whether we can really can cope with the pressures/ demands...
Insulin Resistance – The Silent Health Thief

Insulin Resistance – The Silent Health Thief

What exactly is insulin resistance (IR) and why is it so important to my health? On a technical note insulin resistance is defined as the inability of your cells to respond to the binding of the insulin molecule. The basic function of insulin is to take glucose (blood...
Osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis

Did you know there are about 100 different types of arthritis? However, we are going to focus on the most common form of arthritis called osteoarthritis (OA). Most everybody would consider this arthritis to be the “wear and tear” or “old age” arthritis. About 2% of...
Migraine Headaches

Migraine Headaches

There are several different types of headaches, some major categories are, tension, cluster, sinus, hormonal and many others. However, we are going to confine our discussion to a major category of headaches called migraines. In brief, migraines would be considered a...
High Blood Pressure – Hypertension

High Blood Pressure – Hypertension

High blood pressure or in the medical field it is known as hypertension. There are basically two types of hypertension primary (essential) hypertension and secondary hypertension. About 90-95% of hypertension falls under the category of essential hypertension and...
ANDROPAUSE – “MALE MENOPAUSE”

ANDROPAUSE – “MALE MENOPAUSE”

From a strict medical standpoint andropause is defined as a loss of androgen dominance. What exactly does that mean? Androgens are hormones such as testosterone which are naturally found in higher quantities in the male gender. When a man looses his “androgen...
ALLERGIES, ALLERGIES, ALLERGIES

ALLERGIES, ALLERGIES, ALLERGIES

Most everybody knows about allergies or have experienced them directly, but most do not understand exactly what allergies are. Allergies are defined as a hypersensitive response of the immune system to a normally harmless substance. These substances are referred to as...
ADRENALS, FATIGUE AND MUCH MORE

ADRENALS, FATIGUE AND MUCH MORE

These tiny triangular shaped glands are located on top of the kidneys. Most of us recognize the association of the adrenal glands and the hormone adrenaline that is associated with the fight and flight reaction to stress. However, the adrenal glands do so much more...
Acid Reflux, Hiatal Hernia, Gerd

Acid Reflux, Hiatal Hernia, Gerd

If you are reading this article ,you probably already recognize some of the symptoms of acid reflux: Heartburn– burning pain or discomfort located from the stomach, chest or into the throat. Sometimes this pain can be confused with pain associated with the heart. Sour...
Neck Pain

Neck Pain

Your cervical spine connects your brain stem to your spinal cord. It is an area rich in blood vessels and other soft tissue, such as ligament and tendons. Neck pain is slightly less common than back pain, but no less important or treatable. Common causes of neck pain...

Back Pain

Eighty percent of Americans experience one form of back pain or another during the course of their lives. More men over the age of 45 are disabled by back pain than any other condition. It is the third most common reason for surgeries. Because of this, people...
FIBROMYALGIA – CRITERIA AND STATISTICS

FIBROMYALGIA – CRITERIA AND STATISTICS

Most people have heard of fibromyalgia, but most patients and even other physicians do not understand this condition. For many years this was an unrecognized condition and most physicians simply thought this condition was completely psychosomatic. However, in 1990 The...
FOOD SENSITIVITIES AND FOOD INTOLERANCE

FOOD SENSITIVITIES AND FOOD INTOLERANCE

We wish to make a distinction here between food allergies and food sensitivities/ food intolerances. The last newsletter addressed “true” food allergies which are caused by a protein produced by a certain white blood cell in your immune system called a plasma cell....
CHOLESTEROL – WHAT’S THE STORY?

CHOLESTEROL – WHAT’S THE STORY?

Most of the time when we hear the word “cholesterol” we often think of fatty globules choking our arteries and causing heart attacks. However, there is another side of cholesterol that we often do not hear much about. Often we hear only the negative and none of...