More Than A Century of Gut Healing? Tell Me More…
Before World War I, Karlsbad (now Czechoslovakia) was actually considered the best place in Europe to get your digestive issues treated. An Austrian physician working
Before World War I, Karlsbad (now Czechoslovakia) was actually considered the best place in Europe to get your digestive issues treated. An Austrian physician working
A clock tower, with its myriad gears, pulleys, levers, ropes, twisters and turners, can’t approach the human body’s complexity. After all, the end of all
Dear Reader, When I shifted my focus from clinical practice to media and education, I set out to put myself out of business. I wanted
Pollen, peanut butter, dairy, shellfish… Parents of yore can’t help but mention that these allergies were hardly prevalent in their day. And they’re right – in
Before World War I, Karlsbad (now Czechoslovakia) was actually considered the best place in Europe to get your digestive issues treated. An Austrian physician working
A clock tower, with its myriad gears, pulleys, levers, ropes, twisters and turners, can’t approach the human body’s complexity. After all, the end of all
Dear Reader, When I shifted my focus from clinical practice to media and education, I set out to put myself out of business. I wanted
Pollen, peanut butter, dairy, shellfish… Parents of yore can’t help but mention that these allergies were hardly prevalent in their day. And they’re right – in
Recently, we brought you an article on how bone broth can help heal an aching and damaged leaky gut.
In case you missed the article, here are the broad strokes:
The gelatin, broken down from the cartilage in the bones, feeds the mucous lining of the stomach.
Broth is easier to digest than solid food, so your gut can take some time off of work, replenish, and heal itself.
The amino acids in bone broth help to fight and reduce inflammation, ideal for people with gut pain.
So we know it’s good for you and we know that it can help repair intestinal cracks and strengthen the integrity of the gut lining.
A lot of contention remains about how to consume it – is store-bought okay? How long should cooking it take? Where do you get the bones? Can you use vegetable scraps? Which recipe do you use? How much should you consume daily?
If you’ve ever felt your stomach twist into knots and recognized you felt nervous, congratulations. You’re human!
Now that science is getting wise to the brain-gut connection, we’re realizing that we’ve been intuitively paying attention to the subtle signal of the gut for much longer than we knew. But for much of history, we’ve written off gut reactions as illogical, sensitive, and generally unsubstantiated.
Turns out, there are actual, scientific reasons for these sensations that we’ve long assumed to be emotional.
Everyone’s got an opinion on dairy, and the science is dense and often conflicting. From the ubiquity of the “Got Milk?” campaign to the recent
Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, old nuance circles back around to show us our initial analysis didn’t quite hit the
Individualized healthcare is finally receiving the attention it deserves from the Western medical institution – and for good reason. No two people experience life the same