Modern United States culture is inundated with an unhealthy fear of bacteria. It is why antibiotics are so sought after and subsequently abused, creating a whole other set of health problems that must be dealt with. One of the biggest dangers of antibiotics is the fact that they are designed to kill all bacteria, good and bad, which is both good and bad. Before getting into the gritty details of what to expect when searching for the right probiotic supplement,…
Introduction In the past, doctors didn’t start cautioning their patients to get their yearly colonoscopy until age 50 or up. But today, that kind of thinking is being drastically reconsidered. This is because colon cancer is very much on the rise in much younger populations and is being seen more and more in the 20-35-year age group and 35-45-year age groups. The death rate from colon cancer is sharply increasing in the 20- 54-year age…
Hostile Elements in Your Gut Starting in your mouth, your gut travels through your stomach, small intestine, large intestine, and ends in your rectum. Your stomach and intestines are filled with hostile elements: digestive enzymes, undigested food material and trillions of microorganisms. The surface of the small intestinal lining is only one cell layer thick. When this delicate surface is damaged, we suddenly have hostile elements “leaking” into our bloodstream and spreading inflammation throughout the…
Crohn’s disease is a chronic, debilitating, as yet incurable inflammatory bowel disease that can cause lesions and inflammation of the gut and bowels. Patients with Crohn’s disease typically experience stomach pain, severe diarrhea, nutritional deficiencies, fatigue, and weight loss. Crohn’s disease affects everyone differently, attacking different areas of the long digestive tract. Unfortunately, the inflammation Crohn’s disease causes to develop in the body spreads from the intestinal tract to the bowel tissue and can lead…
Helpful Facts About Diagnosing and Healing Leaky Gut Leaky gut is an incredibly common health condition. However, it remains well hidden from mainstream media. In fact, many people who suffer from this condition have never even heard of it. What is leaky gut syndrome and how is it diagnosed? What are the available treatment options for healing a leaky gut? How long does it take to heal leaky gut? These are all likely questions that…
What is leaky gut syndrome? A “leaky” gut is a permeable gut, meaning toxins are leaking out of the gut, or digestive tract. A leaky gut can be caused by a variety of factors linked to diet, such as eating too much gluten a diet overly rich in grains and wheat products eating unsprouted nuts and seeds and other inflammatory foods which might inflame, pierce, or weaken the lining of the gut over time, such as…
Silkworm Phenomenon Enzymes in a silkworm’s intestines – serrapeptase – dissolve the cocoon and enable the silkworm to transform into an adult moth. The enzyme Serrapeptase is capable of dissolving dead tissue with no harmful effect on living cells. The late German physician, Dr. Hans Nieper, used the enzyme serrapeptase to treat arterial blockages in his coronary patients. Enzymes are amazing. Enzymes Sustain Life We eat to sustain life. The key factor is not how much…
Introduction You might be forgiven for thinking that you are the only person living in your body (Neu, 2011). However, the truth is that millions upon millions of microorganisms teem with life throughout the human body. They are particularly concentrated along the gastrointestinal tract (the human gut that runs from your esophagus down through your stomach and ending at the anus). For the past decade, mounting evidence has suggested that these microorganisms are involved in…