Autophagy, what is autophagy? This word is bouncing around the internet more and more these days as something good for health, but just what is it? The word itself gives us a clue. Auto means self and phagy means eating, so self-eating. It literally means the process of eating ourselves. That sounds strange until you consider that there are no graveyards in […]
A couple of weeks ago a study was published by researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine on the results of comparing the effects of a 10-week diet high in fiber compared to a diet high in fermented vegetables. There has been a ton of research showing how the lack of fiber in the diet […]
Last week my brother sent me a link to an interview with a researcher in Hungary looking into the root causes of blood sugar issues like metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. The information was fascinating to me because it was all about hormones that were not even discovered until 1971, and never mentioned […]
Back in the middle of the night on February 15th of 2015, Ellen woke me up in distress because she suddenly could not feel the left side of her body and her vision was blurry. Half awake I asked if she meant just the left arm or leg. She replied that she couldn’t feel either and […]