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I have only one regret about giving up gluten. I wish I had taken the Celiac test and taken full labs BEFORE going gluten-free. At that time, I could not afford the litany of expensive tests without the help of insurance. It's absolutely certain that gluten was destroying my health, slowly and painfully (more…)

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Cloves are under-appreciated blossoms that heal many health ailments. When all my wisdom teeth were removed, I quickly discovered the agonizing pain of dry sockets. Vicodin left me with a hangover headache that was worse than the dry sockets. In desperate search for a solution, I remembered the old home remedy of using cloves for a…

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Can bacteria influence whether you acquire modern diseases, like diabetes, cancer, irritable bowel disease or obesity? The answer may lay in your personal ecosystem. You comprise trillions of bacterial cells living within you and all over you, known as "microbiota". There are more of them than there are of you. Most of them are quite…

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Did you know that your mouth is a critical gateway to your total body health? Unfortunately, most of us in our modern world do not understand just how critical our oral health is to total health. One of the most notable integrative oncologists of the 20th century, Dr Josef Issels MD, claims that 97% of…

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Bacteria are vindictive, life-sucking demons who must be shunned with every antibacterial scrub and spray made available. At least, that's the conventional wisdom to date. Thankfully, news is leaking out of a surprising, life-supportive relationship with bacteria. Yep, I did say it: bacteria supports life all over, inside and outside, of your body. Many of…

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