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Candidiasis Support

Dear Friends Did you know that nosocomal infections of multiply resistant pathogens kill more patients each year than breast cancer and HIV combined?  The war on pathogens with antibiotics is not a...

Heavy Metal Detox

Dear Friends Heavy metals are shown to be amongst the worst toxic chemicals. But research also shows the place of probiotics in detoxifying heavy metals. For your consideration: add Bioimmersion’s ...

Constipation

Dear Friends Did you know that constipation has become the most common gastrointestinal complaint in the United States? Sixty million Americans suffer from chronic constipation. Diets strong in who...

Autism and the Gut

Dear Friends Its been two weeks now since we’ve come back from the Integrative Healthcare Symposium in Florida.  It was a great conference, highlighting the human microbiome and its critical import...

The Power of Diversity in our Diet

Dear Friends, Diversity  seems to be a particularly pungent word for this day and age.  Consider the following: (1) Appreciation for cross-cultural diversity as our world becomes smaller and smalle...

The Synergy of Berries and Probiotics

Dear Friends, The research demonstrating the importance of diversity of plant polyphenols in our diet and their medical benefits continues to proliferate.  As of August 2015, PubMed database contai...

Diet shapes the gut microbiome

Dear Friends, Reserach demonstrates that diversity within our GI tract microbiome has been greatly reduced. How does that effect our children’s health? De Filippo et al. (2010) compared the fecal m...

Take ownership of your microbiome.

Dear Friends, The microbiome is comprised of approximately 100 trillion mostly bacterial cells. It has been characterized as an extra organ, bestowing us with 100 times more gene power, than our ow...

Probiotics for IBS, Anxiety and Depression?

Dear Friends, Can chronic stress be a causative factor that brings on IBS? And, at the same time, does IBS cause anxiety and depression? Can certain probiotic dosing help ameliorate both conditions...

L. casei rhamnosus & gut integrity

Dear Friends, Another example for taking probiotics each morning. Many of our probiotic formulas carry L. casei rhamnosus. In a 2010 study Fang et al. demonstrated the probiotic L. casei rhamnosus’...