More than 2,000 years ago, Hippocrates—the father of modern medicine—suggested that all disease begins in the gut. While he was not completely right, scientists and medical professionals have recently linked a huge number of diseases to the makeup of our gut microbiome. Read more
The Body’s Superheroes. Our kidneys have one superpower mission: to detoxify the body.
These two highly vascular organs filter about 200 quarts of our blood every day. They remove toxins, waste, and excess fluid, then excrete it out as urine.
Kidney Disease Because they are packed with blood vessels, kidneys are susceptible to the same diseases as the heart. Read more
What We Eat in America is a report prepared by the US Department of Agriculture. It contains pages and pages of data, sliced and diced. Fascinating for researchers, though leaving most readers cross-eyed.
But one way to boil it down is to look at where our calories come from in the American diet. Sadly, only about 12% of calories come from phytonutrient foods – foods that are essential for a long healthy life, like whole grains, legumes, fruits, and vegetables. The rest of our calories are spent on oils, animal products, and sugar.
So what? What if that 12% were doubled, or tripled? Would we have longer, healthier lives? Read more