The advent of fat as a loved macronutrient has had quite a journey in its ascent and can largely be attributed to the current craze in Keto dieting. It is also one of the largest controversies nutritionists, doctors and scientists are picking sides on when it comes to the new 2020 Nutrition Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Keep in mind these guidelines affect everything from public health standards to school lunch policy. It could even affect what insurance will cover when it comes to your healthcare.

It seems there is a wide variety of opinion out there when it comes to how we receive nutrients best. So what does the research show about cooking, food prep and which theory is best?

While many people love a good fried, beautifully browned burger or sizzlin' sausage, have you ever taken a look into what's happening that gives meat that nice brown glaze? Worse yet, have you ever wondered what that process is doing inside your body?

Retrain the Allergy Brain is a strategy based on a salutogenic model, one that studies what causes health, rather than disease. These strategies aim to understand and then down-regulate the stressed system responses.

With over 8,000 results on PubMed database, alone, and including studies of all kinds,[1] the Mediterranean Diet is no newcomer to all modalities of heatlhcare as a viable method for improved health status.

There are a number of reasons why people are increasingly choosing a vegan diet. In addition to moral considerations, health benefits like reduced risk in cardiovascular health and diabetes [7] and celebrities endorsing it, make it hard not to look into whether a vegan diet might be of benefit to you as well.

Otherwise known as the caveman diet, the paleo diet is no stranger to those interested in improving their health. This “caveman” diet is a paleolithic era idea that takes a swing back through time to take at what humans were thought to have eaten 2 million years ago.

An unsung hero, the SCD has been a champion to many sufferers of digestive disorders like Ulcerative Colitis, food allergies/sensitivities, IBS, and Celiac Disease.[1] It is based on the understanding that the disorders are due to an imbalance of intestinal beneficial bacteria, and overgrowth of the "bad" bacteria.

Ever wonder what those lab numbers mean when you get those blood tests back and all you know is that little "H" or "L" means something "bad"? You're not quite sure what, but just that something isn't right. Or, you feel off, but your numbers all look "normal"?

Here's why:

Symptoms act as the dashboard of your body, the alerts to let you know that something might be amiss. Using wisdom, a person would then look at the symptom and question what it is alerting them to, and the resolution process can begin.

Hypertension is one of the biggest risk factors influencing the development of cardiovascular disease, and yet still one of the most confusing when it comes to treatment, somewhat because it’s difficult to talk someone that doesn’t have any symptoms into pharmaceutical therapy.

IBS is a common functional syndrome effectively hindering a patient’s quality of life of varying degrees.1 Characterized by irregular bowel movements, abdominal discomfort, and bloating or rectal urgency,2 it has an ebb and flow pattern that varies significantly in which drug therapies have thus far been insufficient in developing due to its multifactorial variability.

While it certainly presents as an acute inflammatory arthritic condition, gout is more of a metabolic disease.1 Like diabetes, it is heavily related to lifestyle and diet, and truly lifestyle education and determination on the part of the patient can reduce risk of morbidity in the long term.

Widespread pain for at least 3 months without identifiable cause1? It’s a nightmare 2-8% of the worldwide population can attest to1. This is the new diagnostic criteria for Fibromyalgia, a disease of central pain sensitization with a central nervous system processing disturbance2 that has had its share of difficulty among clinicians to diagnose as it can coexist and coincide with various other autoimmune diseases or diseases of chronic infection.

“At least 10 million Americans over the age of 50 have osteoporosis, another 34 million are at risk for developing osteoporosis, and roughly 1.5 million people have suffered a bone fracture related to osteoporosis.”

UTI’s are an infection in which bacteria have colonized in the bladder1 or in the tract from the urethra to the bladder. This can be caused by candida, or E. coli, most commonly1 attributing to 80% of infections.1,2 While the majority of infections are simple cystitis from these common causes, some complicated infections might hint at underlying disease states such as diabetes, or structural of the organ and system.1 It commonly presents as frequent urination, urgency, and frequency. One should be aware of symptoms such as fever, myalgia, or low back pain and seek prompt medical assistance, as delayed identification and treatment can progress to the kidneys and are common following UTIs.

Breathing devices have never been more popular since the advent of Covid 19 and there are many devices on the market and in use in hospitals and clinics.1,2 There are assistive devices for individual use that help support the innate need for breath, breathing posture, and its effects on nerves, tissue, the brain, and smooth muscle like the heart.

Detoxification is a natural, normal, and healthy process of the body. It is the process in which the body identifies and neutralizes toxins to eliminate them from the body.1 These may be toxic substances, but are also the products produced from the internal process of metabolism in general.1 At any time the body’s detoxification system may be neutralizing threats from antinutrients, medications, chemicals, heavy metals, stress, allergens, infectious pathogens, even unhealthy mental states and negative emotions.1 The systems that work together for detoxification to happen include the liver and gallbladder, kidneys, lymphatic, lungs, skin, the GI system, and the brain.1 When the systems become overwhelmed, symptoms may begin to reflect the overburdened status and soon may become useful as evidence of the body’s inability to restore itself to natural and innate homeostasis.

Asthma is a common and chronic condition affecting over 25 million in the United States alone.1 The condition is characterized by narrowed airways in the lungs in which the small muscles of the lungs contract and also possible inflammation to potential triggers.2 Triggers could be environmental allergens, cigarette smoke, molds, animal dander, chemicals or dust.

12% of the United States adult population is well aware of the suffering associated with migraines.1 That’s 30 million people experiencing nausea, vomiting, dizziness, sensitization to light and/or sound, and visual difficulties along with moderate to extreme attacking headache pain.1 Migraines can last from four to 72 hours with varying degrees of severity throughout.