Strengthen Your Immune System with Botanical Medicine Basic Nutrients are key! One of the primary functions of our immune system is to recognize “foreign invaders” i.e. viruses and pathogenic bacteria and respond by sending in the troops safely. The list of nutrients to carry out such a complex function is vast and vitamins A, B’s, […]
PROBIOTICS…Its Strength in Numbers! Did you know that our gut has more than 5,000 strains of bacteria and there are more than 100 trillion microscopic bacterium, good and bad, that proliferate inside our gut [1]? One important thing I have learned while studying bacteria and digestion is that our health lies in our gut! It’s […]
There’s a new Healthy Gut Buzz word in town! Let me introduce you to Prebiotics … but first, let’s take a quick look at their “big sister”… Probiotics have been the healthy gut buzz word for over 10 years. Research has proven and shown that probiotics are good bacteria which displace bad bacteria in our […]