Have you cultivated a love for fermented foods yet? Fermented foods are highly celebrated right now, and for good reason. They can help improve your digestion, support healthy gut flora balance, and even help you look and feel better. Making a high quality ferment is as easy as soaking fresh vegetables in a salt water […]
Digestion
One Patient’s Battle with Biofilm
Endlessly treating infections with no improvement is frustrating, time consuming, expensive and over time, can lead to more resistant issues. This was the case for one patient who battled chronic fatigue, recurrent sinus issues, SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth), numerous chronic infections and other tormenting symptoms. In her case, we combined an elimination diet, biofilm disruption, […]
Icky Sticky Biofilm
Icky sticky biofilm. What is it? How do you get it? How do I know if I have it? And what can I do about it? What is biofilm? Biofilm is a collection of microbes that adhere to a surface, enclose themselves in a sticky protective coating called an extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) matrix, and […]
How to Determine if Your Stomach Acid is Too High or Too Low
In cases like heart burn, gastric reflux or indigestion, it is usually automatically assumed that the patient must have too much acid in the stomach. Too much acid is correct. But the real question is, “Which acid and where is it coming from?” And how can you tell if it’s too high or too low? Physiology […]