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Health You Can Digest!

Good function of your digestive system (from your mouth through the stomach to beyond your bowels) is crucial for our daily and long-term health. It helps in the breakdown of our food to provide energy, nutrients for assimilation and to eliminate waste. It also has an important role in supporting our immune system. Digestive issues plague almost all of us to some...

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Gut Nourishment with Probiotics

Probiotics are a variety of beneficial living microorganisms called microbiomes, mainly bacteria, fungi, viruses, and archaea. [2] They live symbiotically with the host and have different roles. One of the fascinating discoveries is the underestimated role of the appendix as an insurance company. “The appendix is packed full of specialized immune cells, protecting, and communicating with a collective of microbes. Inside, these...

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5 Digestive Support Tips to Reduce the “Stuffed Turkey” Feeling after the Holidays

As the holidays and the end of the year begin to dawn on us, we start the celebrations with family, friends and over-indulgence. Why is it that every holiday we celebrate the fact that we can over-eat and over- drink? Did you know that overeating could affect our digestive processes? This will cause low stomach acid and enzyme output, indigestion, constipation and...

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Dealing With Leaky Gut Syndrome

Dysbiosis If the evidence points to the presence of a gut dysbiosis then it will be necessary to implement measure to correct this. The ongoing presence of pathogenic yeast and bacteria serves as a relentless engine of insults that will sustain a state of LGS and frustrate other remedial interventions. An established overgrowth of Candida albicans typically generates such a range of...

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Digestion and the Holidays

Tis’ the season to be jolly… and overindulge in a lot of delicious foods and drinks! I am sure we can all agree that as much as we love the holidays, we’re all ready to go on the next new diet come the new year to shed off the extra 10 pounds we gained, not to mention combat the general fatigue and...

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To Keto or Not to Keto? A Ketogenic Diet

Touted for its weight loss benefits, the Keto or Ketogenic diet has been in the spotlight again after a long hiatus. It is a diet that has been used for many different things over the years as this article will explore. There are many questions around how to execute this way of eating, how to stay on track, how to overcome the...

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Five Benefits of Intermittent Fasting

While health trends have come and gone, fasting has withstood the test of time and continues to be an effective way to optimize health. Intermittent fasting (IF), in particular, has become one of the most popular ways to incorporate fasting into our busy schedules, due to the customizability that it offers. IF can be implemented in a few different ways: Alternate Day...

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