Gardening for your health from A-Z
We are writing a series of health articles from A-Z – each day a new article going through the alphabet. We decided we would do the same for gardening. Each day addressing a different item for each letter of the alphabet. Hopefully you will find these articles beneficial.
Headaches are a real pain – but understanding them can help you eliminate them
Did you know that your brain doesn’t have pain receptors. But it does have pressure receptors. So when there is pressure – you will get a headache. Okay, so what can cause pressure? The most common causes include: Then we have the more serious issues that can include: There are different types of headaches: Cluster […]
Gout – suffer it or eliminate it
First off, what is gout? Gout is caused by a build-up of a substance called uric acid in the blood. Your body naturally produces uric acid and normally keeps it under control. However, if your kidneys cannot eliminate the excess uric acid, it can build up and cause tiny sharp crystals to form in and […]
Fever – kill it or nourish it?
The body is very good at talking to us if only we had learned to listen rather than confuse it with pharmaceutical drugs! When the body has an infection, there are several ways the body can eliminate the intruder. If the pathogen is in the respiratory system, the body can cough it out or sneeze […]
Your eyes – are they healthy?
Most people don’t think about their eyes or their eyesight till something goes wrong. Me included. At the age of 25, overnight I lost my sight, to the point I couldn’t read STOP on a stop sign sitting right in front of it. Wow. That was scary. My specialist told me I would be legally blind […]
Diabetes – manage it or eliminate it?
Did you know that 3000 years ago in India, Ayurveda medicine could differentiate between 20 different types of sugar disorders and in today’s western medicine, we can only differentiate four – hypoglycemia, prediabetes aka metabolic disorder, type 1 and type 2. Pretty pathetic wouldn’t you say? Like with so many medical issues, we are still coming […]
Do you get cold sores?
What causes cold sores? They are a form of herpes. Did you know there are over 100 different types of herpes? Thankfully not all of them infect humans! However, 8 routinely infect only humans: People often assume that if you have a cold sore (simplex virus type 1) you have the genitalia form of herpes […]
Could we live without bacteria?
The simple answer is no. And the medical profession or more accurately Big Pharma really doesn’t want you to know that. When I was in Naturopathic College almost 20 years ago, it was taught that there were just over 500 species of bacteria in the gut and they did a few things…. For over a […]
Dementia? Alzheimer’s? Manage? Eliminate?
There are 119 different types of dementia being studied, but physicians will typically give Alzheimer's as the diagnosis for a few different reasons.
Do you know what glutathione is?
We have touched briefly on the immune system and that there are 4 major components and all kinds of sub components to establish a good gut, where about 72% of your immune system operates. One of those major components was glutathione. It is a compound that every cell in the body makes and has to […]