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Acid Fix

One of the bonus pieces I picked up at the Blood Chemistry seminar was a way to fix hypochlorhydria.  What’s that you ask?  It is low acid production in the stomach.  It is the real cause for acid reflux.  It is also the starting point for most digestive disorders like gas, bloating, and leaky gut. […]

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What Went Wrong?

How did my body get where it is today?  What went wrong?  I have been health conscious forever and yet here I am with food sensitivities up the wazoo and a leaky gut generating unnecessary weight gain and limiting my energy abundance.  My health efforts have not been completely in vain as the average American […]

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Leaky Gut Cure

For those following the current research, it appears that having a leaky gut wall is the starting point for most of our modern degenerative illnesses.  It has been said that auto-immune disease is the big disease of the 21st century.  Everything from heart disease to osteoporosis and Alzheimer’s to diabetes is now being recognized as […]

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White Kimchi

I was shopping in my favorite international grocery store the other day when I came across something called white kimchi.  Since I am always looking for new experiences, I pulled one down off the shelf of the large refrigerator case dedicated just to various brands of kimchi.  All the other brands were the usual bright […]

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Intermittent Fasting

Last week a patient asked me why I hadn’t written an article on intermittent fasting.  I was amazed, because it has been a mainstay of my lifestyle for years now.  I feel like I have written about it many times, but maybe I have never actually come out and named it by name.  Possibly this is because I […]

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Ghetto Gut

I like my neighborhood.  It is very quiet and everyone watches out for each other.  We get together in the little court on the 4th of July for a big barbecue and snow cones.  It is all very cozy and safe feeling. But what would happen if a crack dealer moved into the neighborhood?  Strangers […]

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Chewing

Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.Hippocrates Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.Hippocrates All disease starts in the gut.Hippocrates Hippocrates is considered the father of medicine.  He […]

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That’s not the problem

My first intention approaching this article was to go into whether gluten is as bad as the present science is showing it to be.  But as I started thinking about the subject, it became obvious that all kinds of things get put into the villain category by our science that we the public blindly accept […]

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What’s Eating You?

Since this article is coming out Thanksgiving weekend – a weekend commonly spent eating more than usual – a food article seemed appropriate.  But lets turn this story around.  Let’s consider what is eating us, rather than simply what we are eating. By now we have all heard about how there are ten times as […]

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Enzymes

Enzymes make everything happen in your body.  They are like little protein robots that take things apart and puts them back together in different ways.  They manufacture everything in our body.  They also disassemble foods we eat into basic building blocks, so we can build what we need to become us. We are experiencing an […]