Digestion

3 Foods that Cause Inflammation

Inflammation. The culprit for most disease states, is actually a good thing. Woah…Wait…What?! That’s right! Inflammation is a good thing. Now, I say this with a HUGE but, on the end of it. Inflammation is your

Caring For Your Colon Naturally: Foods, Drinks and Supplements That Help To Prevent Polyps

Your colon health is important and complex and your colon responds to all the foods, drinks, chemicals and ingredients it passes along. Sometimes your colon seems to cooperate and you feel great and, at other times, your colon

Top Tips for Heartburn and Acid Reflux Relief

Do you have a habit of popping antacids regularly after large meals? Heartburn and other symptoms of acid reflux seem to be much more common than they were a decade ago. The prevalence of weekly heartburn and other symptoms of acid

Digestive Balance

The digestive system is an amazing cascade of mechanical motion, chemical messengers, acid destroying protein, enzymatic reactions complimented by gut bacteria and our immune systems. Digestive balance requires proper functioning

How to Nourish Gut Bacteria

To really understand digestion and how to have good gut health, it is important to understand what is really ruling roost down there, the GALT and the MALT. The body has a natural defense system built into the intestines: the GALT

Dial In Your Health with Multi-Strain Probiotics

Multi-Strain Probiotics that deliver a blend of 15 billion beneficial bacterial microorganisms are a massively successful way to dial in the health of your gut, treat bladder and vaginal infections and to delay the development of

Probiotics: A Healthy Gut May Lead to a Healthy Mind

Your intestines house about ¾ of your total immune system. That means if we want our bodies to be healthy, we need to keep the friendly bacteria in our guts happy by eating lots of fiber and adding probiotics foods (foods containing

A Low FODMAP Diet for IBS

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is considered a functional disorder, so there is no test for diagnosis. IBS includes a complex mixture of symptoms such as constipation, diarrhea and abdominal pain that is accompanied by periods of

The Hunger Scale for GERD Relief

Acid reflux is considered a normal physiological response when the sphincter connecting the stomach and esophagus relaxes and allows stomach acid to flow up into the esophagus, this can occur in adults as well as children. If this