Leaky Gut Education — Category_Reboot Starter Kit

What Causes Food Allergies Everyone knows someone with food allergies. Today social gatherings involving food require special attention to nuts, eggs, cow milk, wheat, shellfish, corn and soy. And the consequences for negligence range from debilitating to deadly. According to the Centers for Disease Control, last year over 15 million Americans made ER visits for food allergy related emergencies. In Europe 17 million went to the hospital.  Food Allergies Rising While researchers scramble for some answers, food allergies among children in the U.S. have increased 50% in the last decade, with an even sharper increase in Europe where hospital admissions...

Food Cravings Some new science is suggesting that your food cravings could be influenced by forces other than YOU. No way you say? Consider this. You're actually more microbe than human. Yep, 10 to 1 your cells are outnumbered by microbial cells living in and on you. And the federally funded Human Microbiome Project, is uncovering some bigger news scientists believe will affect the future of medicine. Namely, our gut microbiome benefits us more than we ever knew- breaking down our food, fighting off infections and nurturing our immune system. It’s a living, microscopic civilization we should be nurturing for...

Do I Have Leaky Gut? As the terms,"microbiome," "friendly bacteria" and "leaky gut" become a part of common vernacular you may be wondering how to posatively diagnose the condition so you can begin doing something about it. Because we have trillions of bacteria present in our bodies all the time, the difficulty with testing is determining which of many possible microbiota have overgrown and by how much. So reviewing the list of leaky gut syndrome symptoms and noting how many ways you match up is a more pragmatic approach to getting started. No need for expensive testing, just some self...

Gut Microbiome and you... Healing leaky gut requires understanding a little something about your gut microbiome and who you really are. In fact, it may surprise you to learn that you are actually more "them" than you are "you". Your body is home to about 100 trillion bacteria and other microbes, collectively known as your microbiome. Since the invention of the microscope back in the 1600's, naturalists have been aware of our hitchhiking microbes but it wasn’t until the past five years that we're getting to know them better. New Research For decades, bacteria have been given a bad rap....