Here is a question that I often get asked. It is based on one of the recommendations that I often make with patients and that is to avoid cow’s dairy because cow’s dairy is a major inflammatory food. Then they will ask, can I [...]
Let’s talk about Mistletoe therapy. This is a therapy that is not widely used in North America but it is widely used in Europe. Mistletoe is a white-berried European Mistletoe extract, called viscum album, it’s a medicinal plant that’s been used since ancient times. [...]
What is the connection between chemotherapy and fasting? A number of my patients receive both the convention approach to cancer and the naturopathic approach, so that we can support a person’s body as they go through chemotherapy. One of the tactics that we can [...]
First of all, what is insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is when our cells’ insulin receptors are not sensitive to insulin that is released from the pancreas in response to glucose or sugar, then they cannot allow glucose into the cells to make ATP or [...]
The ALCAT Food Sensitivity test is different than any other food sensitivity test on the market, as it is measuring the leukocyte cellular reactivity in the whole blood. It’s looking at all of the white blood cell pathways and seeing how a person’s system [...]
This is a question I often get asked in my practice. Many people are still under the impression that saturated fats are bad for you, that they cause heart disease, that saturated fats will cause high cholesterol levels and high cholesterol causes heart disease. [...]
Resistant starches are starchy foods that are metabolized differently. Resistant starches are foods that do not get broken down and goes into the intestines, turned into short chain fatty acids by the intestinal bacteria, acts like fiber and feeds the healthy bacteria. Ie. Cooked [...]
Let’s talk about UBI, Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation, Therapy. We remove some blood, usually about 50-60cc of blood. We mix that blood with an anti-coagulant. Within a closed, airtight circuit we return the blood to the patient. Before the blood returns to the patient the [...]
What is the connection between grains and cancer? What we know about cancer cells is that they love to feed on sugar and sugar can increase the growth of cancer cells. Grains turn to sugars rapidly in the body. All grains, even healthier grains, [...]
What is the connection between grains and fungal overgrowths? When we consume grains they down into sugars rapidly. As soon as we consume grains, we have an increase in blood sugars. Within our digestive tract we have an ecosystem of fungi and bacteria that [...]
