Digestive health

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What I dearly hope this read will give you is increased awareness about the root cause of your health problems.

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"Dr. Brown's new book, Beyond Digestion, is an excellent guide, full of patient examples and simple steps that have successfully reversed brain dysfunction, arthritic pains, hormone imbalances...the list goes on. You'll look back six months from now and smile with gratitude that your cholesterol is down fifty points…

Naturopathic Currents is a worldwide newsletter for health and well being. It delivers professional, unbiased, up-to-date, and evidence-based information on integrative medicine and natural health products from leading naturopathic doctors (NDs) across Canada and the United States.

In the January edition, Dr. Brown explores gluten and its impact on our gastrointestinal health and overall vitality. She looks at some of the factors contributing to gluten sensitivity and discusses the importan…

Join me and Cassy from AOR as we discuss digestion on their podcast Supplementing Health

Bone health can be affected by the consumption of gluten. None of us have the enzymes to properly break down gluten. If you are celiac or ultrasensitive the long term, downstream effects can leave quite a trail of bread crumbs. Read on...

Your bones are protein rich multi-mineral pillars of strength. They need multiple nutrients. Nutrients you must be able to absorb from your food.

Osteoporosis is a low bone density state associated with increased risk for fractures. Risk factors in men an…

"Gluten-free diet (GFD) is effective in the management of epilepsy in 53% of cases, either reducing seizure frequency, enabling reduced doses of antiepileptic drugs or even stopping antiepileptic drugs." (1)

Epilepsy occurs almost twice as much in patients with celiac disease and those with epilepsy are twice as likely to have celiac disease. In addition to these stats, there are those whom are non celiac gluten sensitive, where the brain is more often to be ill-affected than the gut. Neurolog…

In times when you are overwhelmed with a flood of emotional input, the ability to digest food takes a hit. What's going on?

Your gut is your primary sensing organ

Your gut takes in both food and emotional vibrations from the world around you.

Emotions are made up of body chemicals. Things like serotonin, dopamine, GABA, adrenaline, cortisol - to name a few. As you sense what's going on around you, your body makes emotional chemicals. Messages go from your gut to your heart which feels the…

Why the "sunshine" vitamin is important

Vitamin D is important for calcium and bone metabolism, gut and mucosal lining protection and immune response. Vitamin D deficiency is worldwide, especially in the elderly population (2).

1. Bone
2. Gut
3. Immune

Vitamin D and Bones

Vitamin D3 helps your bones absorb calcium and phosphorous. This makes bones strong. When taken with vitamin K2, D3’s actions are increased. What's more is the help vitamin D supplies to muscle status: "Cochrane analysis found …

Zinc is a cofactor in over 100 transactions in the body, promotes growth hormone, plays a role in DNA synthesis, supports a healthy immune system; contributes to a sense of smell and taste and helps hormones do their work. 

Zinc plays a role in your:

1. Immune
2. Skin
3. Hormone health

Immune

Short term zinc deficiency reduces your immune system’s ability to ward off infection. Due to its direct antiviral properties, it can be assumed that zinc is beneficial for most of the population, especially …

What gluten gives

Wheat consumption has revolutionized our current era. Not only does it fill up 50% of the average daily food intake, it provides fibre and B vitamins (B1, B2, B3, B6, B9) and some iron, zinc and selenium. Gluten is found in more than bread and pasta, it is a universal processed food additive as a thickener, flavour enhancer and texture modifier. With the gluten free trends in diet, unfortified meals are seriously low in protein, magnesium, potassium, vitamin E, folate, sodium…