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The Gluten Gap
What gluten gives
Wheat consumption has revolutionized our current era. Not only does it fill up 50% of the average daily food intake, it provides fibre and B vitamins (B1, B2, B3, B6, B9) and some iron, zinc and selenium. Gluten is found in more than bread and pasta, it is a universal processed food additive as a thickener, flavour enhancer and texture modifier. With the gluten free trends in diet, unfortified meals are seriously low in protein, magnesium, potassium, vitamin E, folate, sodium…
Crohn's Disease
Crohn's disease is chronic inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal tract. It presents with persistent diarrhea, abdominal pain and cramping, loss of appetite, weight loss, and fever. In extreme cases, blockages, ulcers, and fistula can occur.
If you seek a caring professional who is a registered naturopathic doctor in Guelph with a functional medicine approach, you've come to the right place. Dr. Laura M. Brown, ND helps people better digest their food and the world around them.
Cracki…
Executive Health Assessment
Prevention is always key in health. What better time than now to check in on yourself. For $525*, includes laboratory testing, initial hour appointment and 15min followup**. A look at your blood will help will not only diagnose disease, but to catch things before they happen! Together with a comprehensive intake questionnaire and discussion about your health and goals, you will have a plan to keep you healthy for the long run. Additional laboratory and appointments to address your health con…
Aging, Memory and Microbiome
Aging for most means progression to inflammation and reduced immune capacity.
Adverse changes in the microbiome contribute to 16-18% of world-wide cancer.
On the contrary, a study of those who live past a hundred years, their microbiome is very unique and reflects the body’s capacity to digest proteins and respond well to inflammation[1].
Watch for news on probiotics that fight aging! Find out if you have a healthy microbiome!
Early studies observe how certain species can take polypheno…
Oxalate danger
How does a super fit person get kidney stones? You eat well, live clean and exercise regularly.
Well, if you eat spinach in your smoothie every day for three years, this can totally happen.
Spinach is high in oxalates and oxalates are consistent with the formation of one type of kidney stone. The oxalates also have great binding power not only to form stones, but to bind to the other minerals in your diet like iron.
Take away is spinach is okay, but get some variety. If one week you pi…
Measure your mood
Together we discuss what tests suit you best and with your results we make practical lifestyle and nutritional recommendations to help meet your specific goals. Examples of some tests are below.
If you seek a caring professional who is a registered naturopathic doctor in Guelph with a functional medicine approach, you've come to the right place. Dr. Laura M. Brown, ND knows how to stimulate your body’s natural mechanisms to repair damage and rebuild health.
How Does Your Mood Affect You?
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Food for thought
Your microbiome plays an important role in mediating depression and anxiety-like behaviours[1]. Keep your gut and its lining healthy and your mood and thinking power will benefit.
If you seek a caring professional who is a registered naturopathic doctor in Guelph with a functional medicine approach, you've come to the right place. Dr. Laura M. Brown, ND knows how to stimulate your body’s natural mechanisms to repair damage and rebuild health.
What I use for gut repair can depend on state of…
Do you know what to eat?
We are all our own unique chemistry experiment. Your microbiome unique and your genes have some small differences too. Environment, stress factors – those can play a role too. There is no one diet that is right for everyone. There is not even one diet that is right for you forever. Your body changes and so does its requirements.
Research continually unveils mysteries of the interaction of food and the body. Or at least it thinks so. Your body is designed with a blueprint made many hundreds of…
Beyond Digestion
The health of your gut makes deep impacts on the health of your entire body.
2450 years ago, Hippocrates said, it all begins in the gut. I think he was smarter than even he might have imagined. Has the human condition ever really changed? Modern science confirms the gut is related to so much.
How can what goes on in the rest of your body be related to digestive health? Even mood can be reflection, or reaction of what is going on in the gut. In actual fact, the state of the gut could be the …
The good fight
It is our natural primitive response to defend ourselves. We need armour. If we didn’t have it, we wouldn’t survive. Simple. As a child you depend on your parents to keep you safe from harm. Ask any mother if she heard anything in the night before her child was born. Once an infant or dependant requires your care, from the dead of sleep you can hear even a sigh from the other room. We are wired to defend.
The immune system is complex in one way, easy to understand if you think of it like your…