The intricate relationship between the immune, gut, and hormonal systems forms a vital axis that significantly impacts our overall health and well-being.

Inflammation is a natural and vital part of the body's immune response. When tissues are injured or exposed to harmful pathogens, the immune system activates to defend against potential threats. Inflammation helps to isolate and eliminate these threats while promoting tissue repair.

Although it's common to occasionally feel tired due to a late-night or a busy day, persistent fatigue that lingers on, irrespective of the amount of rest you get, is not normal.

A slight dip in energy can be a normal physiological response to circadian rhythms, post-lunch digestion, and changing levels of hormones. However, if your afternoon fatigue is severe, persistent, and impacting your productivity or quality of life, it's not something you should overlook.

High Estrogen levels may be triggering excess histamine release in your body.

Histamine is a biogenic amine that is found in many tissues of the body, including the brain, heart, lungs, and intestines. It is involved in many physiological processes, in particular the immune response, inflammation, and neurotransmission. Histamine is stored in mast cells and basophils, which are types of immune cells that both play a key role in the body's response to allergens and pathogens. When these cells are activated, they release histamine into the surrounding tissue, where it binds to histamine receptors and produces a range of effects.

What we eat influences our ability to properly mange stress- here’s what you should be eating to modulate cortisol level

The number one issue with both fasting and low carb diets is that they have been shown to raise cortisol. It’s worth pointing out that many who participate in IF are also very low carb, whether they mean to be or not.

Discover which formulation of magnesium is right for you, whether you are seeking to reverse a deficiency or simply sleep better.

Boron doesn’t have just one single job in the body. It plays a role in Vitamin D and sex hormone production, adrenal gland activity, brain health and cognitive function, heart health, bone health, tumor suppression, antioxidant defense, enzyme and protein production, and keeping copper bioavailable.

Insomnia affects more than one in 25 women in the US- over 25%. One of the first studies done regarding women and insomnia actually found a rate of 46% of women reporting sleep disturbance nightly. And the lifetime risk of insomnia, meaning experiencing sleep disturbance consistently at some time in your life, is over 40% if you are female.

Quercetin is an antioxidant that can help reduce symptoms of respiratory issues in Covid-19 infections, and can improve longevity by reducing inflammation and risk of cancer, Alzheimers, and more.

Simply having “clean” water doesn’t mean that it’s good for you. Chlorination and fluoridation and the potential for high levels of heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, nitrates, VOCs, MTBE, and PFA’s should all be considered when determining if you should be filtering your drinking water, and which filter you should use.

The variety of gut health supplements isn’t so simple these days.

Is your collagen supplement helping or hurting your health?

Low Dose Naltrexone is a new and little known therapy that may be the next step in regulating your autoimmune condition.

Trying to figure out which supplements to take can be overwhelming. There are some nutrients that almost everyone is low in, regardless of whether they eat a standard American diet, or cook meals made from whole foods on the regular.

Higher protein intake can lead to increased satiety, increased energy, reduced cravings for sugar, refined carbohydrates, and fats, and often a seemingly effortless reduction in weight.

How do we properly assess vitamin D status and how do we know if supplementation is truly necessary? Why is this important? Supplementing with vitamin D is an excellent way to correct a deficiency, or insufficiency, that has been diagnosed by a healthcare practitioner. However, supplementing without repeated monitoring by your healthcare practitioner can be dangerous.

Vitamin D is an increasingly recommended supplement but is supplementation really necessary? For some people yes, but for others there may be avenues to try before supplementing. In this two-part blog series we will look at the importance of vitamin D and how to determine if supplementation is truly necessary.

Recovering from major surgery is challenging but fueling the body with whole foods that meet intake requirements will go a long way in improving the healing process and speed.