Functional Medicine Parasite Testing - Dangerous Bug Identification at Its Best
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Functional Medicine Parasite Testing – Dangerous Bug Identification at Its Best

Functional medicine parasite testing may be a completely new topic for you.  Like many, you likely thought that all testing for parasites was the same.  Take a stool test with your doctor and treat what shows up.  However, there are differences, and not just small ones.  With recent outbreaks seen at fast food chains and a pattern of showing up in the food supply every couple of years, you may very well be at risk.  If so, this means that knowing that there is a difference between parasite tests and which ones to avoid could come in pretty handy.

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Heal Leaky Gut – 5 Best Winter Plants to Eat

Most of the time healing a leaky gut requires supplementation.  Names like glutamine and probiotics typically top the list.  They do a good job and I frequently recommend them.  But even the best supplementation is limited if the food you eat is sabotaging your efforts.  I like to think of food as medicine, because it is.  One thing I learned early on is that food is either healing your body or destroying it.  That is equally true of the gut.  To heal leaky gut, the right foods are essential.

Change of Season

Leaky gut contributes to a long list of symptoms and diseases.  Most are not easily associated with a problem in the gut.  However, it is amazing the benefits one experiences when nurturing the gut.  Unparalleled and lasting effects can be seen by enhancing the relationship the gut has with the rest of the body.

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