Healing Headaches and Migraines With Diet and Supplements
Millions of people everyday experience headaches or migraines. The symptoms of migraines can make it especially difficult to manage daily life. These intense disabling headaches cause throbbing pain, nausea, irritability, and sensitivity to light, among other things. Various prescription drugs intended to treat headaches and migraines often come with unwanted side effects. The good news…
How to Support The Immune System with Diet and Supplements
Our immune system merged throughout our body is there to protect us against infections and other external and internal assaults. The immune system uses two types of defense mechanisms against threats to our body. An innate defense mechanism and an adaptive defense mechanism. Each defends against a threat to the body in a different way.…
Epigenetics and How Lifestyle Choices Affect Health
The external effects of the environment can influence disease, and some of these effects can even be inherited in people. What exactly does this mean? Let’s give an example: in 2002, Swedish scientists conducted an investigation where they examined whether nutrition affected the death rate from heart disease and diabetes and whether these effects were…
Phytoestrogens and Their Effect on Body Estrogen Levels and Health
Estrogen is the primary sex hormone regulating the menstrual cycle and affecting the reproductive system in the female body. However, not many people know that estrogen affects almost all other body tissues, including the brain. In the brain, estrogen increases serotonin levels and the number of serotonin receptors, controlling the amount of endorphins, the “feel-good” chemicals. Estrogen…
TMAO and Its Effect on Your Health
For decades, science has been showing that what we eat plays a vital role in our heart health. In the past 5 years, the details of the complex connection between the gut and heart are in focus. The gut microbiome consists of trillions of microbes that reside in the gastrointestinal tract and influence health by…
The Effects of ENDOTOXINS on your HEALTH
In nature, organisms have developed ways to defend themselves by producing poisonous and harmful substances called toxins. Toxins are substances produced within living cells or organisms that can have a detrimental effect on other living organisms. Endotoxins are bacterial toxins from Gram-negative bacteria, (‘endo’ meaning ‘internal’, a part of the bacteria itself). An endotoxin is…
Pregnancy – The Most Crucial Supplements And Foods To Consume When Pregnant Or Trying To Get Pregnant
Pregnancy is a very special time in a woman’s life. Not only is it special because of the outcome, but also the pregnancy itself is quite a spiritual process that is very exciting and fulfilling. During pregnancy, the amount of nutrients the woman’s body needs is also special in that it is exceptionally high. Many…
Blepharitis, And Other Eye Conditions- How Dietary Changes and Supplements Can Help
Blepharitis is an inflammation of the eyelids that causes watery and red eyes, a burning, unpleasant sensation, itchiness, swollen eyelids, blurred vision, frothy tears, and even loss of eyelashes. Your eyelids can be stuck shut in the morning due to the crusting on your eyelashes or the lids’ edges. It is estimated that one in…
7 Reasons To Remove Dairy Products If You Wish to Lose Weight
Dairy products were my absolute favorite food as a vegetarian from my teen years. I just loved their smooth and fatty flavor. I was addicted. Over the years and especially following my research into the ideal diet for humans, which I called The Guerrilla Diet because I felt I had to “combat” all I was…
ASTHMA TREATMENT – Nutritional Remedies to Cure Asthma Naturally
Asthma is a chronic respiratory disorder associated with airway inflammation. Asthma is affected by environmental factors and genetic susceptibility that both play a role in asthma pathophysiology. Common symptoms of asthma include wheezing, coughing, shortness of breath, and chest pain or tightness. Also healing from the common cold or flu will take longer for asthmatics.…
The Best Foods for Libido and How They Work
Many things in modern life lower our libido levels. This is especially true with the amount of stress we have in our daily lives. Other lifestyle habits also influence our libido. But there is evidence that certain lifestyle choices we make can actually have a positive influence on our libido. So instead of going for…
How to Stop Bad Breath With 10 Dietary Tips
There is no substitute for good dental hygiene. Bad oral health is the source of 90% of cases of bad breath. This usually comes from poor oral hygiene in general, periodontal disease, unclean dentures, faulty tooth restorations, tongue coat, oral carcinomas, and throat infections. Bad breath can be a serious turnoff. If you or someone…
How to treat hair loss with diet and supplements
Hair loss is a clear sign of some deficiency in your diet. This deficiency can be of specific nutrients, or overall calorie deficiency or a macronutrient deficiency such as protein deficiency. Hair follicles are among the most metabolically active in the body. They require constant and proper nutrition to support their growth. Research shows…
Allergies vs. Intolerances, and Natural Treatments That May Help
A true allergy: There are four types of reactions to allergens, including: 1. An immediate and acute reaction. It is the most common form of an allergic reaction, but it is still uncommon among the global population. An anaphylactic reaction releases histamine, serotonin, bradykinin, and lipid mediators, which may damage tissues and organs. Anaphylaxis involves…
The best food combining principles and why
We all know how specific foods can provide health benefits. (1) There is much research about food combining, and in fact, food combining was my first interest when I came into the field of nutrition at the age of 15. I then went to my local library to find the different digestive times of proteins,…