One of the most contentious issues in the Paleo nutrition community is whether dairy products are health-promoting or disease-causing.On one end of the spectrum you have Loren Cordain and his group, who claim that dairy is not fit for human consumption for two reasons: 1) because it's a neolithic food and not part of our evolutionary heritage, and 2) because of proposed physiological mechanisms by which dairy causes harm when consumed. On the ...
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I had a great conversation with a colleague yesterday. We were talking about parasites, chronic infections and cancer. The conventional understanding is that pathogens cause disease and must be eliminated to restore health. This makes sense, on the surface, and it's certainly true in the case of some virulent infections.But what's missing here is an understanding that the body is an ecological system. There are over 100 trillion microorganisms living in our ...
In a previous article in this series on diabesity I briefly mentioned the role of gut health in obesity and diabetes. I'd like to go into more detail on that subject here, especially since it's not a very well known relationship.Our gut is home to approximately 100,000,000,000,000 (100 trillion) microorganisms. That's such a big number our human brains can't really comprehend it. One trillion dollar bills laid end-to-end would stretch from ...
Hippocrates said: "All disease begins in the gut." 2,500 years later we're just beginning to understand how right he was. And, as I'll explain in this article, hypothyroidism is no exception. Poor gut health can suppress thyroid function and trigger Hashimoto's disease, and low thyroid function can lead to an inflamed and leaky gut - as illustrated in the following diagram:The gut-thyroid-immune connectionHave you ever considered the fact that the contents of the ...
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