What Your Food Cravings Reveal About You
As a naturopathic doctor, I frequently ask people if they have any food cravings. Food cravings can reveal a lot about your health. Food cravings can be both emotionally based, but they can also tie into your physical health. Like physical symptoms, food cravings give us valuable information as to possible imbalances in the body.…
ADHD symptoms improved by an Elimination Diet
In this study 64% of children who followed an elimination diet for 4-9 weeks experienced significant improvement of ADHD symptoms and oppositional defiant disorder as compared with the control group. An elimination diet is a restrictive diet that eliminates allergenic foods. In this study, the children in the diet group ate mostly meat, rice, vegetables,…
An herb proves to be just as effective as a popular Diabetes drug
A bitter herb known as Berberine has been shown to regulate glucose and lipid metabolism. This study compared Berberine with a popular diabetes drug, Metformin. Berberine proved to be just as effective as Metformin in lowering Hemoglobin A1C, fasting blood glucose, postprandial blood glucose, and triglycerides. In addition, total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol (“bad cholesterol”)…
Antibiotic Exposure and Risk of Allergies and Asthma
This study showed that early antibiotic use (by 6 months of age) was associated with asthma and allergies at the age of 6 years. To me, this makes sense. By eradicating all of the normal flora (“good bugs”) in the gut, the body is more susceptible to immune dysregulation. Much of our immune system is…
