READERS SUMMARY: HOW DO YOU FIND OPTIMAL? MEET INGER, AN AMAZING EPI-PALEO STARFISH. HOW DO YOU FINE TUNE YOUR BRAIN, THE INSTRUMENT THAT YOU SENSE THE WORLD WITH? WHAT IS THE BIOLOGIC CORRELATE BEHIND TUNING YOUR INSTRUMENT? WHERE DOES THE MAGIC OF LIFE REALLY OCCUR? THE EMOTIONAL GEEK: From a thread on my forum, [...]
READERS SUMMARY: 1. IS NUTRIENT DENSITY FROM A USDA CHART IMPORTANT IF IT IS OUT OF CONTEXT FOR THE SPECIES IN QUESTION? 2. PALEO SAYS PUFA'S ARE BAD. ARE THEY REALLY; OR IS OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THEM LACKING? 3. WHY IS IODINE A CRITICAL FOR A HUMAN? 4. IS GETTING A HASHIMOTO'S DIAGNOSIS LIKE GETTING [...]
The Prostate Cancer Webinar Last month, we tackled breast cancer, the #1 epithelial cancer among women. This month, we’re taking a look at Prostate Cancer, the #1 male epithelial cancer. 400,000 men get prostate cancer per year, compared to 290,000 women. While women rally together for support in dealing with breast cancer, for men, often [...]
Buy Webinar Prostate Cancer Q&A Call Only! See related products below for the Cancer Webinar This month’s webinar is Prostate Cancer: Last month, we tackled breast cancer, the #1 epithelial cancer among women. This month, we’re taking a look at Prostate Cancer, the #1 male epithelial cancer. 400,000 men get prostate cancer per year, [...]
[show_if has_tag="No-Webinar-2012-08-August"]Buy Webinar[/show_if][show_if has_tag="Webinar-2012-08-August"]ACCESS YOUR WEBINAR[/show_if] We talk a lot on the blog about the brain-gut axis and the implications our gut has on our overall health, including: Most brain disease and neurodegenerative disorders start in the gut (tumors, autism, depression, high blood pressure, Alzheimer’s, hypertension, heart disease) start in the gut. Autoimmune diseases like MS starts in the [...]
READERS SUMMARY: 1. A QUESTION DURING AN EDUCATIONAL CONSULT STIMULATES A DISCUSSION 2. HOW DOES ARTIFICIAL LIGHT DESTROY THE SIGNALING OF THE CORTISOL/DHEA/MELATONIN AXIS? 3. HOW DOES ARTIFICIAL LIGHT AFFECT THE GUT FLORA? 4. CAN ARTIFICIAL LIGHT AFFECT HUMAN BIOLOGY DIRECTLY? 5. IS BODY COMPOSITION TIED TO ARTIFICAL LIGHT AND IMPAIRED SLEEP CYCLES? [...]
My name is Danielle Thatcher and here is my story of the rabbit hole I fell into with MJ when we met Dr. Kruse on his vacation: When I first sat down to write about my experience with meeting Dr. K, I had the highest of hopes of writing something that would and could inspire [...]
Today, we are going to dive into the gut flora story a bit deeper than we did in our first gut flora post to help you understand how a a change in gut flora might lead to changes in your health by altering your hormone panel. Obesity is an inflammatory brain condition. Where does the infection come from? The gut flora actually is what causes humans to become fat. It has to due with shear numbers and the species of bacteria in our gut. There is a particular flora that produces adiposity and obesity in humans. These bacteria make something called FIAF (Fasting induced adipose factor) that control this process. This factor blocks lipoprotein lipase (LPL) in fat cells. LPL allows us to convert dietary Free Fatty Acids carried in lipoproteins into neutral fats that are stored in adipocytes. Non Geeks: Our gut bacteria makes humans fat. Geek Alert: The FIAF is made by our liver, muscles, and our small bowel wall when food sources are in short supply. This is the signal to stop storing fat in our fat cells when food is scarce. What is not well appreciated by many is that the FIAF in our intestinal wall is controlled 100{a7b724a0454d92c70890dedf5ec22a026af4df067c7b55aa6009b4d34d5da3c6} by our gut flora. When we have a simplified gut flora it favors fat cell creation. When our gut flora is complex and healthy, it has 100 trillion cells with 250 species. We tend not to make fat in this instance either! Moreover, when the bacteria are active metabolically due to the presence of simple sugars, production of FIAF ceases, and fat creation is signaled. This implies that our gut flora is directly tied to fat creation in humans. The gut flora’s action is directly signaled to the brain via the afferent nerve fibers in the vagus nerve. In those newly created fat cells, a protein called leptin is also produced, and acts as a score keeper for the brain of how much fat is stored in the body. This messenger is sent to the brain around midnight when we are sleeping allowing the brain to assess total energy balance in the body.
READERS SUMMARY: 1. What is a day in the life of a vacationing doctor like? 2. Accept that your epigenome is a loaded gun, and your lifestyle is the trigger. Your lifestyle can't change you. It reveals who you really are. 3. Is there an important difference between giving up on somethings and letting go to [...]
[show_if has_tag="Webinar-2012-10-October"]ACCESS YOUR WEBINAR[/show_if] Everyone has been affected by cancer. In 1900, only 3 out of 100 deaths were attributed to cancer. Breast cancer was unheard of in the first 50 years of the 20th century. Across the board, cancer was so rare that it wasn’t listed as a cause of death in the government [...]