The trillions of bacteria in our gut affect us much more than we realized. In fact, we didn’t even know about gut bacteria until a hundred years ago, but for many decades science concluded that the bacteria didn’t affect our health. Scientists thought they were like leaches, simply using us. More recently, we’ve discovered this […]

The Skin-Gut Relationship The digestive track is a fairly large organ when considered from start to end. The skin, however, is even larger. In fact, it’s our largest organ, and the one organ that we can visually check. Both of these organs signal to us about our health. Our stomach lets us know about problems […]

With 50 million Americans affected by some sort of allergy, it’s becoming the most common but overlooked disease. We try to treat it, but for most people who have allergies, it’s just something they have to live with. Kendra had suffered from hay fever since her first pregnancy about a decade earlier. She took over-the-counter […]

Most of us will have taken prescription medication at some stage in our lives. Whether for a cold, flu, stomach illness, injury or something more serious, popping a few pills given to us by our doctor is simply one of the steps in getting well again. After all, doctors are medical professionals – they know […]