How to Overcome Healthy Eating Obstacles
We understand that what we put into our body has a direct impact on how well it performs. We all want to be healthy, right? So, if we know that we want to be healthy, and we know how to use diet as a tool to improve our health, why is it so hard? Look, no one is perfect [...]
Hashimoto’s and Graves’ Disease Treatment: A Unique Approach
Recently, we discussed how an underlying autoimmune component is often overlooked with thyroid disease. If an autoimmune tendency is at play, there are several solutions that you can pursue in order to balance the immune system and treat the thyroid. In the case of a thyroid disease with an underlying autoimmune component, such as Graves’ or Hashimoto’s, something is [...]
Food Allergy Symptoms That Might Surprise You
“If I had a food allergy, wouldn’t I know it?” People are often surprised to learn that they have a food allergy. They assume that if they eat something (or their child eats something) and there is not an immediate reaction, then everything must be fine and they are not sensitive to that food. But this type of detective [...]
Thyroid Disease: an Often Overlooked Autoimmune Component
Thyroid disease, particularly hypothyroid (underactive thyroid) is very common. Hypothyroid is typically treated with a daily dose of medication, such as Synthroid or Armor Thyroid. Many patients begin to feel better after they take their prescription, however, this relief is often short-lived. In some cases, the person begins to feel worse again and experiences a combination of hypothyroid and [...]
Reverse Diabetes: Is it Possible?
The quick answer: it depends. Mostly, it depends on which type of diabetes a person has because that determines the types of treatments that are necessary, as well as the outcomes one can expect. For patients with Type 1 Diabetes, which is usually diagnosed during childhood, reversing the disease is not possible because the body has stopped producing insulin. [...]
Treatments for Type 2 Diabetes
“The doctor of the future will give no medicines, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause of disease. ~Thomas Edison ” While Type 2 Diabetes is very serious and can result in significant complications, it is a condition that can be treated and also reversed. Helping people reverse [...]