Have a Skinny Friend? Maybe You Should Borrow Some of This

Obesity and weight loss are complicated issues. It’s no longer about calories in versus calories out. In a prior article I wrote about the contributions of environmental chemicals to obesity and diabetes.  And this contribution is not a small one.  You can read more about this relationship by clicking here. Certainly the quality of the […]

The Dangers of Antibiotics: Surprising Risk for Colon Cancer

  Although I’ve said it before, let me make it unquestionably clear; the use of antibiotics in conditions that are not immediately life-threatening are destroying your health far more then you can possibly imagine. The list of chronic diseases associated with altered bacterial flora in the gut is extensive.  So extensive that they may play […]

Can Antibiotics Lead to Ulcers? The H. pylori Story

ANTIBIOTICS LEAD TO ULCERS??  This is not a normal association in allopathic medicine, but if you follow the physiology it makes tremendous sense.  The bottom line is that antibiotics decimate our normal, protective flora whether it is in the back of the throat, small intestine, vaginal vault, large intestine or even in the stomach.  We […]

Exercise for Your Heart, Lungs and… Bacteria??

We all know that exercise is essential to good health.  And you also know that the bacteria in your gut are critically important to good health as well. But I would be surprised if, even in your wildest physiology-based dreams, you thought that these two were somehow linked. The benefits of exercise on human health […]