CONSTIPATION AND PERFECTING YOUR POOP Having a daily bowel movement is so important to overall health and our poop can tell us so much about digestion, absorption, bacterial overgrowth and inflammatory status in the body! In the Naturally Nourished clinic, there is an entire section of a new client intake dedicated to digestion and 10+…
HOW TO DO A PROBIOTIC CHALLENGE! Restore: Baseline Probiotic offers a 50:50 blend of lacto and bifido probiotic strains to support the bowel without fermentable fiber that can throw off gut bacteria. This makes it a great probiotic to use in a “test” of tolerance. Often times with Candida or bacterial overgrowth, probiotic foods and…
Biofilms the Barriers of Bacteria The human gut is said to be 3-5 pounds of bacteria and in fact humans are actually outnumbered in the body 10 to 1 – bacteria cells to human cells. As you can imagine these organisms residing in our body have great control over our health and overall immune system.…
10 SIGNS YOU HAVE YEAST OVERGROWTH Many people go through everyday life dealing with vague symptoms like bloating, fatigue, headaches, constipation, weight gain, skin irritations, and yeast infections. Although seemingly very different effects, all of these conditions are often rooted in the same cause: an overgrowth of yeast. Formally known as Candida Albicans, “Candida” is an opportunistic…
DYSBIOSIS AND PROBIOTICS The word probiotic, meaning “for life,” is a live microbial organism that is beneficial to health, having direct and indirect effects on the physiology of the body. In 1994, the World Health Organization claimed probiotics to be “the next-most important immune defense system when commonly prescribed antibiotics are rendered useless by antibiotic…
