People are starting to bandy about the detox word more and more these days, yet when I ask them what detox actually means they generally have no idea. They know it means doing some sort of special diet and maybe something else like taking special cleansing herbs. But that seems to be about the extent […]
Tag: intestinal health
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 […]
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 […]
Taking Out the Trash
Have you noticed how much effort it takes these days to stay healthy? When I was a little kid diabetes was a rare almost unheard of disease. We all knew about heart attacks, but nobody my parents or their parents knew had had one. Cancer was not even a word that was in the […]