Unfortunately, many thousands of people have been hood winked into believing that lowering the acid content in your food will reduce reflux. It does not and there is absolutely no science to support it. Referring to a few studies in a book is not valid science it is called cherry picking. Yet some people have derived a mild benefit from it because it teaches people to eat more healthily, but it benefits no more than a healthy Mediterranean diet. My concern about this is that distract people from dealing with the underlying issues which cause reflux while there are so m...
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Hypertension does not just occur on its own, it is a symptom of multiple underlying health conditions including inflammation, oxidation and acidosis. As a result, it is associated (Comorbid) with many other health conditions. That is if you have hypertension you are more likely to have any number of these conditions and visa-versa if you have any one of these conditions you are more likely to have hypertension. So if you have hypertension you are at increased risk of dozens of other health conditions. Not to mention cardiovascular conditions like elevated cholesterol and...
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Hypertension is a diet and lifestyle phenomena, not genetic. It is epigenetic, what we do to our genes with what we eat and our activities. 100 years ago it was mainly the rich and wealthy who developed this disease. Now it is widespread and interestingly enough apart from age, one of the biggest determinates of hypertension is the level of education. The lower the level of education, the higher the risks of hypertension. This does not mean you have to go study a degree on the topic but that you must become better informed. Hypertension is a global issue and despite the ...
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Hypertension, high blood pressure is a lifestyle disease. 100 years ago it mainly existed in the rich and wealthy now it is 30-50% of the population. Depending on your definition hypertension is having a blood pressure reading of above 140/90 mmHg. Systolic blood pressure the top number, measures the force your heart exerts on the walls of your arteries each time it beats. Diastolic Blood Pressure (DBP), the bottom number, measures the force your heart exerts on the walls of your arteries in between beats. The higher the two numbers the greater the risk. Interestingly they ...
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The use of food supplements for weight loss purposes has rapidly gained popularity as the prevalence of obesity increases. Navigating through the vast, often low quality, literature available is challenging. Many strategies have been proposed for the treatment of weight excess and its detrimental consequences, ranging from dietary regimens to pharmacological treatments, extreme physical exercise and psychological approaches. Amongst these approaches so-called super foods and food supplements have gained much popularity in recent years which are likely to exert an anti-...
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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a public health problem with a prevalence of 0.6%–1.7% in children and is steadily increasing with recent data suggesting that as many as 1 in 59 children are diagnosed with ASD. Males are also up to 4 times more likely than females to be diagnosed with ASD. Children with ASD struggle with social communication and interaction and are characterized by restrictive and repetitive behaviour patterns, interests, or activities. As well as psychiatric symptoms, dysbiosis and gastrointestinal comorbidities are also frequently reported. In supp...
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What really causes reflux? Put simply reflux is where the stomach contents pass up through the Lower Esophageal Sphincter (LES- the muscle at the top of the stomach which is supposed to keep the food in the stomach) and into the esophagus and above. Even into the mouth and mouth. While everyone will tell you about the foods like tomato or spices or …. that cause their reflux these are usually not linked to the underlying causes of reflux but rather what causes each bout. While this can help with reducing the incidence and severity of the reflux even more important howev...
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The way we respond to the various stressors in our lives probably depends upon a number of factors including genetics, upbringing as well as physical and mental health. Recently several lines of evidence show that our resilience is mediated by adaptive changes in several neural circuits, including numerous neurotransmitters and molecular pathways which are linked back to the gut and that our gut microbiome may impact on our personal resilience to various stressors. The gut microbiome refers to the collection of microorganisms in the gut which not only has effects localiz...
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The overgrowth of bacteria in the small intestine, SIBO, leads injury to the small intestinal microvilli. The small intestine and microvilli are essential in digestion and absorption of many nutrients and any damage then contributes to poor absorption and as a result multiple nutritional deficiencies. This is then likely to contribute to a viscous cycle of increased inflammation and oxidation linked with poor nutrition and even more gut damage. While most people would love the idea of losing any weight, weight loss can be a serious side effect of SIBO due to poor absorpt...
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Reflux is literally your bodies inability to digest the food you have been feeding it and in most cases it didn’t just start happening it has been building up for a long time, even decades. It is a symptom of imbalances in the digestive system and their assisting organs. “Reflux is essentially the response to an overburdened, under functioning and stressed digestive system and a run-down body physiology” But reflux is not one condition or the same for every person. Every person has their own story and everyone has different symptoms as well as underlying causes...
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