K2, Part 1: The Vitamin That Could Save Your Life

  Is that a bold statement? Yes. Is it true that a vitamin can literally save your life? Absolutely. In this series, we’ll be discussing the rapidly-growing body of research around this little-known vitamin. We’ll talk about how K2 can have tremendous health benefits for cardiovascular, bones, brain, skin and even certain types of cancer. […]

Microbiome Part 3: Gut-Brain Connection

All right. We are onto the next subject, and one that often gets overlooked when we’re talking about microbiome, or gut health, or any of those topics, is the link to the brain. There’s a term that you as the reader might have come across in the past.

Microbiome Part 2: Leaky Gut

All right. We have a very popular topic here to talk about in the functional health world, and that is “leaky gut”. I’ll put that in quotes also because that’s a commonly thrown around term where I don’t know if people who use it often even understand really what it means or what it is. Before we go further, what is leaky gut, as defined from a biological standpoint?

Microbiome Part 1: What Is It?

So we’re gonna start with the basics. What is the ‘microbiome,’ and I put that in quotes, because that word is used a lot. When someone says ‘microbiome’ or we read ‘microbiome’ on something, what, exactly, does that mean?

Leaky Gut, Inflammation and the Gut-Brain Connection

Leaky Gut, Inflammation and the Gut-Brain Connection. Can “special” probiotics aid in brain function, cravings and more? Joe Rignola: An interesting study that he’s working on. Do you want to talk about that a little bit? You can mention names here I think.

High “Bad” Cholesterol? Good. You may live longer!

It should come as no surprise to readers of this blog that cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease. New research, published in the British Medical Journal, not only confirms this, but goes a step further. A team of researchers from around the world analyzed studies involving over 68,000 participants. Their findings?