Section: Digestion
Your digestive system is one of the most important systems in your whole body. If your body cannot properly digest and absorb nutrients and eliminate waste products, then it is nearly impossible to achieve optimal health. Proper gut function is critical to addressing what can be seemingly unrelated conditions. If your gut is not happy, your body is not happy!
by: Eric Lewis, ND, and Kristina Lewis, ND
11/1/2012
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While serious, a weak and vulnerable immune system should not be cause for alarm. Instead, it should be a call to action! When two super-nutritional supplements, lactoferrin and probiotics are taken together, they give a great big boost to weak, under functioning, and vulnerable immune systems. A "Q and A" session with Dr. Carrie Louise Daenell gives insight into good bugs and health.
by: Carrie Louise Daenell, ND
10/31/2012
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Probiotics are one of my favorite things to talk about. "Why?" They are extremely important for a healthy digestive tract, assimilation and absorption of specific nutrients, keeping infections at bay and maintaining a healthy immune system. Research into the role of probiotics has shown some interesting results.
by: Alison Finger, ND
10/31/2012
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With all sorts of engaging ads for pills that promise a quick fix for irritable bowel syndrome (commonly known as "IBS"), drug companies would have us believe this is an actual disease, with an easy and effective treatment. Not so fast, warns our digestion guru Andrew L. Rubman, ND.
by: Andrew L. Rubman, ND
10/29/2012
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Celiac disease is a genetic condition that affects as many as one in 130 Americans. It is the most common genetic disease, yet most people have never heard of it, and it can lead to some of the major diseases that affect our society, including osteoporosis, colon cancer, infertility and obesity.
by: Christine Doherty, ND
10/29/2012
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