Leaky Gut Education

50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists To Point Blame At Fat A newly discovered cache of internal documents reveals that the sugar industry downplayed the risks of sugar in the 1960s. 2016 was a big year for uncovering scandal in the research annals of our country and the result is a fair amount of Sugar Shock. Mostly shock that sugar could really be so bad for human health. Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University questions, "Is it really true that food companies deliberately set out to manipulate research in their...

Does Sugar Really Suppress the Immune System? Our understanding of how food affects our bodies is constantly unfolding. Sometimes, that means giving up an old belief in light of newer evidence. In the 80's medical professionals and nutritionists believed sugar from an apple was no different in the body than sugar from a snickers bar. So, hog it down right? We also thought all fats were bad and that they were the culprit escalating heart disease. Now we know better. And new science is revealing how misinformed we once were about the role of dietary sugar in suppressing the immune...

Epilepsy and the Microbiome For 100 years Johns Hopkins Medical Center has been treating epileptic children with a low sugar, high fat diet to stop seizures. In this post I'll unpack for you why this diet works, and why you should consider looking into the Microbiome for the root cause of Epilepsy, and experience significantly healthier brain function as a result. Epilepsy on the riseA 2017 report from Centers for Disease Control indicates the number of Americans with epilepsy is rising as population increase is falling. More than 3.4 million Americans have epilepsy. Another 200,000 new cases of epilepsy are...

New Link Uncovered With both kinds of diabetes increasing worldwide, and the US leading all other developed nations in prevalence by a long shot (30 million US of 46 million total cases worldwide), some understanding of the mechanism that creates this disease is a welcomed discovery!  Over the last 10 years, research into diabetes has found a link with intestinal permeability and gut bacteria. It turns out that the microflora in your digestive tract may play a big role in the development of diabetes. Healthy gut bacteria can nurture the lining of your digestive tract, while harmful bacteria can cause...