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Bile is an under-rated part of our digestive process. Learn why with Lindsey Parsons and me in this episode of "The Perfect Stool".

Your liver eliminates waste products, such as toxins, dead blood cells and excess cholesterol through bile. Bile is released in digestion and used to absorb dietary fats, vitamins, and other nutrients. Bile is a substance your liver makes while filtering your blood. When bile is made, half goes direct into digestion and the other half is stored in the gallbladder …

Dig deeper and easily understand your health.

In a number of recorded videos, Dr. Laura Brown, ND and Jenny Swisher peel back the onion and uncover the most commonly asked questions about gut health and the microbiome.

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We need rest and digest. If we’re always in fight or flight, or freeze, right, we’re not digesting. So, and I argue that we not only have to digest our food, we have to digest the world around us. What a pleasure to sit down with Manon and have a heart to heart conversation about gut health and how I came to this focus in practice.

The microbiome is a large body of bacteria, and some fungi and viruses that helps humans with detoxification, protection and regulation of body systems such as hormone and energy distribution, the immune system, and the brain for thinking and behaviour. It also provides nutrients like folate, vitamin K, biotin, riboflavin (B2), cobalamin (B12), and possibly other B vitamins and produces and/or consume a wide range of chemical messengers including dopamine, norepinephrine/adrenaline, serotonin, …

Joint pain is marked with stiffness, aches, pain and reduced mobility. It can occur in one or more joints, be one side or both sides of the body. It can occur at any age in any gender in people all around the world. There are many types of joint pain and more than one type can occur in one person at a time.

Factors in Joint Pain

Lifestyle, dietary, genetic, metabolic, and gut health related factors all contribute to joint pain. This means there is plenty of natural opportunity to assist the r…

Processed foods are chemically engineered to deliver a dopamine high. It's true sugar itself is actually more addictive than cocaine. When one eats processed food, the brain responds with lower numbers of dopamine receptors to effectively counteract the increase in dopamine. This requires more dopamine to get the same "high" and also explains the depression often associated with food addiction.

Why is this important? Dopamine is made in your brain and acts as a hormone ( relays information to …

Vibration Therapeutics

Everything in the universe oscillates at a vibration. A vibration is a wave. Sound is a wave. Vibration has sound. Vibration applied through weighted tuning fork moves through the body, removes blocks, reduces pain and increases energy flow. Ultimately it helps restore the body's natural biorhythms and cycles and promotes relaxation.

Tuning forks are applied to specific acupuncture points or applied in sequence along acupuncture channels. This can be a practical altern…

Many medications disrupt the natural flora and damage the gut lining. Those with antibacterial actions, such as antibiotics, certain cancer therapies, antihistamines, antipsychotics, antihypertensives, and antidepressants like SSRIs are particularly damaging. Sometimes changes are reversed when one stops taking the drug, but damage can persist for up to four years.

This article is for educational purposes only and is not intended for individual medical advice. it does not promote any changes…

Psoriasis? According to research, your diet and health of your gut might offer some relief.

That's what 86% of 1206 psoriasis patients in the United States reported when they responded to a national survey.

The greatest skin improvement was reported after reducing alcohol (53.8%), gluten (53.4%), nightshades (52.1%), and after adding fish oil/omega-3 (44.6%), vegetables (42.5%), and oral vitamin D (41%).

While this post does not substitute medical advice, it does offer some things to thin…

At the site of any organ or tissue damage, there is inflammation. Long term chronic disease is often a result of chronic inflammatory processes that involve reactive oxygen species (ROS).

Oxidative stress occurs in the body when free radical cause a large chain of chemical reactions. Gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT), a biomarker on a laboratory liver panel blood test, is a signaling factor of this chain of chemical reactions. One may request blood work for liver enzymes, including GGT at their…