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Thyroid

  I have been noticing a peculiar trend over the last couple of decades with patients, their temperatures are dropping. Back when I was growing up and through my schooling years the normal temperature of your average human was 98.6 degrees. This is what is still taught in school. Yet when I check patients or […]

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Fiber and Prebiotics

The more I research leaky gut and the development of degenerative disease conditions, the more I run into our gut microbiome as the key player in this whole problem.  The pathways from things like Alzheimer’s disease, heart disease, cancer, arthritis, autoimmune disease, and so on keep tracing back to the gut as the starting place for these […]

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Fiber 2

Everybody has heard that we need to eat more fiber.  When you ask them why we need more fiber, the almost universal answer is so we can poop regularly.  While this is true, this is only the tip of the iceberg.  Fiber is a huge subject and should be classed as a food group all […]

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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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Starch – friend or foe?

Is starch good for you, or bad for you?  The question is not really about starch, but about you.  Look around, everyone you see and know all look different.  Check out who is wandering around the grocery store and notice the huge diversity of body shapes and sizes.  We are all different on the inside […]

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Lignans

I have been fasting for two weeks now, doing what I am now calling the Full Belly Fast.  It is a very different experience for me compared to my usual water fasting.  It does not even feel like fasting because I am eating several times a day.  I always have a full belly.  Normally with […]

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Bad Bugs and IBS

Hi , Twenty years ago, other than a few health nuts, nobody ever talked about the bacteria we carry around in our guts on a normal basis.  If anyone mentioned bacteria and gut together it was in reference to some terrible disease like cholera or dysentery.  As time has progressed the attention on the bacteria […]