What is the difference between folic acid and folate? I think it is very important to understand that these are very different compounds. Folate and folic acid are different forms of B9. Folate is naturally occurring in our food, whereas folic acid is a [...]
A concern that I will come up when I start patients on iodine is, I think I’m allergic to iodine. Patients will start taking iodine and they will have an allergic reaction like a rash. Iodine is a halogen. Now there are other chemicals [...]
Right now a lot of people are taking a high amount of zinc, which helps to support our immune function. If we take high amounts of zinc over a long period of time what can happen is that zinc can start to deplete our [...]
Let’s talk about the gut-immune connection! I think it’s important to understand that what we are eating can largely affect our immune system. About 80% of our immune system is actually housed in our gut. So how we are feeding our body can greatly [...]
Pork or pig is biologically similar to human meat. This is why we can do a pig heart valve transplants in humans because the tissues are compatible with little risk of rejection by our immune systems. Now when we consume pork it elicits an immune [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
