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Looking After Your Digestive System

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“All disease begins in the gut.” Hippocrates said this more than 2,000 years ago, but we’re only now coming to understand just how right he was. Research over the past two decades has revealed that gut health is critical to overall health, and that an unhealthy gut contributes to a wide range of diseases including diabetes, obesity, rheumatoid arthritis, autism spectrum disorder, depression and chronic fatigue syndrome.

In fact, many researchers believe that supporting intestinal health and restoring the integrity of the gut barrier will be one of the most important goals of medicine in the 21st century. It certainly is a necessary step if you want to improve your digestion.

There are two closely related variables that determine our gut health: the intestinal microbiota, or “gut flora”, and the gut barrier. Let’s discuss each of them in turn, because if you keep the detoxification pathways open and look after your digestive  system, they’ll look after you. Read More

Christmas Gourmet Foods and Over-Indulgence

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Christmas has come and gone – but have those extra pounds?

The golden days of summer and the festive nights of Christmas celebrations have arrived and gone.

It really gives us something to look forward to emotionally, but what about the toll on our bodies from the exposure to the hot weather and all those sumptuous foods and drinks!

You needn’t turn down social invitations to keep healthy this summer season, but you do need to be responsible – take extra precautions.

The first step is to stay hydrated … especially if you exercise or work out-of-doors, you will need plenty of clean water to replace any excessive sweating and fluid  losses … and drink plenty of water between alcoholic beverages to prevent dehydration. Read More

Gallstones or Muscle Strain?

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About The Gallbladder
Your gallbladder is an organ that sits just under the liver. It helps you digest fat by storing and secreting the bile produced in the liver. When you eat fatty food it secretes this concentrated bile through ducts into the small intestine where your food starts to be digested.

When the liver is not functioning properly, or when nutrients like choline or taurine are deficient, the bile that collects in your gallbladders becomes thickened or gritty. The health of your liver is extremely crucial to long-term health. A congested liver is the root reason behind many modern diseases such as acne, yeast infection, leaky gut, digestive issues, as well as gallstones.

Many think gallstones are a function of poor gallbladder function, when they are actually produced in the liver and just stored in the gall. This can occur more often after age 30 especially in women, as a result of nutritional deficiencies, a toxic liver or hormonal issues. You can then have trouble processing and digesting fats due to the lack of viscosity of the bile. This can result in nausea, abdominal cramps, strangely coloured or loose stools or pain in the right side of your abdomen after you eat, especially after a larger sweet, heavy, fatty, or spicy meal.

Over time, Read More