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Stool Testing to Investigate your root cause

Stool Testing to Investigate your root cause

INFORMATION OVERLOAD Are you confused by all the testing available by different doctors and functional practitioners to investigate your root cause? My patients/clients that come to me for help send me countless tests that their doctors have run to investigate their root cause.  The problem is, some of them are often not providing the right [...]
Gut-friendly Banana Muffins

Gut-friendly Banana Muffins

Let Food Be Thy Medicine I was looking for something different eat that is quick, healthy, hypoallergenic and has all the nutrients my body needs to be healthy, while also support healing the leaky gut. So I pulled out my famous gut-friendly pumpkin banana muffins. This is delicious with a spoon of pumpkin seed butter and [...]
Thiamine Deficiency, Insulin Resistance and Diabetes

Thiamine Deficiency, Insulin Resistance and Diabetes

The relationship between thiamine and diabetes mellitus (DM) has been reported in the literature (Luong & Nguyen, 2012). Thiamine acts as a coenzyme for transketolase (Tk) and for the pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) and α-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase complexes. These enzymes play a fundamental role for intracellular glucose metabolism by increasing Krebs cycle activity (Luong & Nguyen, 2012).  [...]