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Ep50: Breaking Down Food Sensitivity & Gut Health

Ever wonder if you have food sensitivities? Dr. Laura Brown shares her expertise on identifying signs and symptoms of food sensitivities, and how to improve bad gut health.  Don’t miss Dr. Laura’s expert advice on food sensitivity tests, how gut health relates to your overall health, and what you can do to improve it!

Website: https://hammersnhugs.com/how-to-improve-bad-gut-health-laura-brown/

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Eczema, otherwise known as atopic dermatitis (AD) is a common, chronic, relapsing, inflammatory skin disease that presents in varied ways. While it has genetic factors, it often flares with environmental triggers. Conventional treatment options have variable effectiveness and more holistic approaches are worth exploring.

It is always important to consider the gut health, the microbiome and environmental factors in eczema or atopic dermatitis (AD) cases. 

Principal factors that aggravate ecz…

Both the gut lining and the gut microbiome play a role in the health of your thyroid and its hormones. The thyroid gland, shaped like a butterfly and based in the front of the neck, is critical to your energy production, and regulation of lipid absorption, and metabolism.

The gut lining and thyroid function

Anything that damages the gut lining, be it infection or irritation from foods, drugs, or toxins, may disrupt the integrity of the mucous membrane, aka intestinal permeability or “leaky gu…

Constipation affects, on average, 16% of the population worldwide, and up to 33.5% of those aged 60-110 years old^[i].  Due to the tide of hormones, women are more likely to suffer from constipation than men^[ii].

The experience of constipation includes: irregular bowel movements, passing stool less than three to five times per week, or the difficulty passing a stool that may require straining, or the insufficient, unsatisfactory, incomplete or painful stool.  It may even include an obstruction …

Cravings?

Sugar can be as addictive as cocaine. An excess of sugar rewires the dopamine receptors in your brain. Out thinking your craving can be really tough. Craving for sweetness is strong.

With at least seventy percent of the immune system residing in the gut, there is little wonder that high sugar consumption makes immunity weak.

Processed and packaged foods (even the packages bought in the grocery store) often contain preservatives to extend shelf life, colouring agents to make it look…

Gout is a type of arthritis that occurs when too much uric acid builds up. It causes glass like crystals to form in joints, aggravates the kidneys (acid urine and stone formation) and potentiates high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease.

Hyperuricemia (gout) is diagnosed with a blood test of serum uric acid (SUA) above 420 μM (70 μg/ml). 

It can be hereditary in nature, or the result of another condition. Gout usually affects men over forty with a family history of gout. Certain foods, …

Do you support detox or disease? Every choice you make sends your body into one direction or the other. Disease is an imbalanced state where the level of toxins overwhelm an individual's capacity. Think of your body as a toxic bucket. If you keep adding to it, it gets full! That's disease. What do you do when a bucket is full? You stop putting more stuff into it and you start draining some out. That's detox.

Our body must balance metabolism of acid-alkaline, water, minerals, the nervous, gla…

Preheat oven to 350F convect bake.

Directions below. You will need the following ingredients:

1 cup almond flour

1 cup quinoa flour

2/3 cup arrowroot flour

1/3 cup coconut flour

2 TBSP baking powder

1/8^th tsp salt

1 ½ tsp xanthum gum

1 cup coconut oil

1 cup frozen raspberries

1 cup dried cranberries

2 cups almond milk

Directions:

Whisk or sift together dry ingredients and break up any clumps:

1 cup almond flour

1 cup quinoa flour

2/3 cup arrowroot flour

1/3 cup coconut flou…

There are links between gut and mood. In Beyond Digestion, I talk a lot about the fact that we not only have to digest our food, but also the world around us. When life gives us more than we can handle, it is literally "beyond digestion", meaning life can be stressful, especially we lack the appropriate ways to cope.

Did you know? Of those with IBS, thirty percent seek treatment and in that thirty percent, ninety percent of the people have anxiety and or depression. But even those who don't h…

Medicinal Mushrooms!

The great emperors of China used medicinal mushrooms as a nourishing tonic, aphrodisiac and for anti-aging.  Medicinal mushroom use dates back 4,000 years. Medicinal mushrooms are helpful because of their β-Glucans. The exact structure of the β-Glucan gives each mushroom its unique properties.

Here is an overview of three great medicinal mushrooms, however there are plenty more mushrooms to consider when it comes to your immune health.

Reishi “King of the Mushrooms”(G…