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Category: food sensitivities

Katinka’s Awesome Gluten-Free Grain-Free Chickpea Bread

One of the bummers about having to avoid eating wheat due to what it does to my body is giving up bread. Fortunately, my friend Katinka has come up with a delicious solution for the rest of us! Whoever said that bread is the staff of life certainly understood how biting off a hunk of […]

Healthy, Anti-inflammatory Eating During Quarantine

This morning I talked about how healthy, anti-inflammatory eating can help our bodies stay healthy, resilient, and more resistant to illness as part of the New Life Expo. Of course, it was all over zoom as a reflection of  our current reality during this pandemic and the resulting quarantine. Watch the talk for links to […]

Can Constipation Make You Crazy?

“Many neurologic and psychiatric disorders are associated with constipation,” noticed a neurology department in Copenhagen, Denmark, in a paper published in the Journal of Neurology and Neuropsychiatry. Funnily enough, I have noticed the same thing in my own clinic. In fact, in my experience, dysfunctional bowels seem to accompany almost every neurologic and psychiatric issue […]

Study Finds Link between MS and Food Allergies

A study published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry has found that patients with multiple sclerosis who have food allergies had more relapses and a higher likelihood of gadolinium-enhancing lesions than patients with no known allergy. They assessed more than 1,300 adults with clinical MS and MRI-confirmed disease activity who had a self-reported history […]

How to Treat Dementia? Fix the Gut.

It may not seem logical to use dietary therapies to treat Parkinson’s Disease, but it should be our first course of action when a loved one begins to exhibit signs of dementia. The key is to realize that inflammation is behind most if not all symptoms. New research into treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and dementia […]