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Joint pain is marked with stiffness, aches, pain and reduced mobility. It can occur in one or more joints, be one side or both sides of the body. It can occur at any age in any gender in people all around the world. There are many types of joint pain and more than one type can occur in one person at a time.

Factors in Joint Pain

Lifestyle, dietary, genetic, metabolic, and gut health related factors all contribute to joint pain. This means there is plenty of natural opportunity to assist the r…

Processed foods are chemically engineered to deliver a dopamine high. It's true sugar itself is actually more addictive than cocaine. When one eats processed food, the brain responds with lower numbers of dopamine receptors to effectively counteract the increase in dopamine. This requires more dopamine to get the same "high" and also explains the depression often associated with food addiction.

Why is this important? Dopamine is made in your brain and acts as a hormone ( relays information to …

Vibration Therapeutics

Everything in the universe oscillates at a vibration. A vibration is a wave. Sound is a wave. Vibration has sound. Vibration applied through weighted tuning fork moves through the body, removes blocks, reduces pain and increases energy flow. Ultimately it helps restore the body's natural biorhythms and cycles and promotes relaxation.

Tuning forks are applied to specific acupuncture points or applied in sequence along acupuncture channels. This can be a practical altern…

Many medications disrupt the natural flora and damage the gut lining. Those with antibacterial actions, such as antibiotics, certain cancer therapies, antihistamines, antipsychotics, antihypertensives, and antidepressants like SSRIs are particularly damaging. Sometimes changes are reversed when one stops taking the drug, but damage can persist for up to four years.

This article is for educational purposes only and is not intended for individual medical advice. it does not promote any changes…

Psoriasis? According to research, your diet and health of your gut might offer some relief.

That's what 86% of 1206 psoriasis patients in the United States reported when they responded to a national survey.

The greatest skin improvement was reported after reducing alcohol (53.8%), gluten (53.4%), nightshades (52.1%), and after adding fish oil/omega-3 (44.6%), vegetables (42.5%), and oral vitamin D (41%).

While this post does not substitute medical advice, it does offer some things to thin…

At the site of any organ or tissue damage, there is inflammation. Long term chronic disease is often a result of chronic inflammatory processes that involve reactive oxygen species (ROS).

Oxidative stress occurs in the body when free radical cause a large chain of chemical reactions. Gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT), a biomarker on a laboratory liver panel blood test, is a signaling factor of this chain of chemical reactions. One may request blood work for liver enzymes, including GGT at their…

Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory condition affecting 10% of reproductive aged women. Genetics, environmental factors, and immune system all appear to contribute to its development. The hallmark symptoms of uterine cell mis-location to areas outside the uterus is in response to the woman's hormonal cycle of growth and bleed, sparking pain and inflammation. “Retrograde Menstruation”, is a theory that helps explain the migration of cells via the fallopian tubes into the pelvic cavity. En…

The colon, or large intestine, is the distal part of your digestive tract where up to ninety five percent of your microbiome lives. The walls of the colon are typically smooth, pink and glistening with a protective mucus layer. There is a complex interplay between dietary, microbial, immunological and genetic factors that lead to either health or disease in the colon.

The microbes in the large intestine continue to digest what the small intestine could not: walls of plant cells, cellulose, h…

Part of the pumpkin family, Cucurbita pepo is native to the Americas since 1492. Explorers brought C. Pepo to Europe and garden breeders in Milan "discovered' the variety (Cucurbita moschata) around 1850. The name " zucchini" to be coined later in Tuscany.

No matter the name or the origin, the beloved summer squash is a plant of of great production and culinary treats. Summer squash small offshoot greens are a healthy part of a hypoglycemic diet considering the fibre and carbohydrate conten…

Parasites live off their host (you) and have the potential to cause damage such as inflammation and leaky gut. Parasites are passed around through contaminated food and water, day care centres, foreign travel, mosquitoes, pests, pets, and sexual interactions. If there are symptoms, they are usually diarrhea, mucus, blood in the stool, fever, irregular bowel movement, and stomach pain. Parasites can also cause joint pain, skin rashes, allergic reactions, a weakened immune system, and fatigue. Sy…