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Endotoxemia effect on weight gain

Dear Friends What is the correlation between processed foods, endotoxemia, and weight gain? Cani and associates (2008) found that bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) levels set the tone of insulin s...

Bifidobacteria and reduction of Obesity

Dear Friends Is there a correlation between obesity and low levels of bifidobacteria? Cani and associates (2007, 2007a, 2008, 2009) found a clear correlation between the bifidogenic power of oligof...

Garlic Douche: an ancient art

Dear Friends An old and natural practice to treat vaginal yeast infections is the vaginal douche using a good collection of lactic acid bacteria, such as the Lactobacillus species found within our...

Bacterial Vaginosis Support

Dear Friends Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is the most common cause of vaginal symptoms among women.  According to NHANES, data collected between 2001–2004, 29.2% of women ages 14–49 in the United State...

Celebrate Earth Day

Dear Friends Let’s celebrate Earth Day!!!   Here’s the link: Earth Day — April 22. The year of the first Earth Day was 1970, and it gave voice to an emerging consciousness that we all need to come ...

UTI Support

Dear Friends Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) are the most common non-intestinal infection worldwide (August, 2012). It is estimated that 60% of women have had at least one UTI, 30% have recurrent U...

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...

Cardiovascular Support with Phyto Power

Dear Friends In industrialized countries isolated systolic hypertension (ISH) increases steeply with age. Many Americans over the age of 60 have ISH, which is increasingly recognized as a cardiovas...

Obesity/Diabetes and Inflammation

Dear Friends Chronic tissue inflammation goes hand-in-hand for people suffering from obesity and diabetes.  The inflammatory cytokine Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha (TNF-a) is elevated in the plasma a...

Cancer Support

Dear Friends The American Institute for Cancer Research has their Ten Recommendations for Cancer Prevention, and most of them center around the foods choices we make. Of course, there’s the daily e...