Gut Health

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Understanding Fats

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Understanding Fats

Saturated fats and cholesterol have been a part of people’s diets since the beginning of time as they were acquired through animal fats. Healthfully sourced saturated fats are not harmful and are a necessity in everyone’s daily life.


Saturated fats found in well-sourced animal products are much easier for the body to break down, hold up better under heat, and are a better option for maintaining a healthy weight. Polyunsaturated fats found in nuts & seed oils do not hold up well under heat and create more free radical damage in the body, thereby creating more inflammation. While the oils in fatty fish are essential for brain and heart health, their oils go rancid easily and should be consumed from fresh sources, avoiding fish oils that tend to go rancid.


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Understanding Leaky Gut

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Understanding Leaky Gut

Leaky Gut Syndrome (LGS) is a major cause of disease and dysfunction in modern society, accounting for at least 50% of chronic complaints, as confirmed by laboratory tests.

In LGS, the epithelium on the villi of the small intestine becomes inflamed and irritated, which allows metabolic and microbial toxins of the small intestines to flood into the bloodstream. This event compromises the liver, the lymphatic system, and the immune response including the endocrine system.

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Insomnia....possible underlying causes

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Insomnia....possible underlying causes

If you suffer from insomnia then you understand the seriousness of simply not getting a good night's sleep. Your whole world around you appears to crumble when you can't get a good 6-8 hours of quality deep REM sleep. Your work life, your family life all suffer.


If you are unknowingly deficient in chromium, vanadium, manganese, and other nutrients you can experience hypoglycemia rebound in a few hours where you abruptly wake up and are unable to drift back to sleep.

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Link Between the Gut and Brain and Inflammation

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Link Between the Gut and Brain and Inflammation

The brain is the most nutrient-dependent, energy-dependent and toxin- and stress-vulnerable organ in the body. The gut and the brain are very tightly linked. In the gut-brain axis, damage to one is often damage to the other.


The intercellular permeability of the gut lining can be treated through repair and regeneration with xanthohumol. A natural phenol derivative of hops, xanthohumol has a very extensive (more than 250 publications in preclinical science) record of efficacy and safety.