Root Cause IDENTIFIED ! Recently I have been getting a lot more patients come through who never had bladder issues who want to figure out their Root Cause. Almost all of them have been exposed to COVID. After reviewing several labs, I started seeing some common trends. In other words, think I figured out [...]
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 Health and Vitamin D Do you know the role vitamin D plays in your gut health? The incidence of chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) has increased over the past few decades, especially in developed countries. I was particularly interested in the role vitamin D plays in the therapy of IBD, since low vitamin D [...]
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 [...]
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). [...]