

Food Intolerance, Low Carb Diets and ALCAT Testing
Food Intolerance and Weight Loss Accurate identification of food sensitivities is vital to a successful weight loss and healthy eating program. Food sensitivities can cause sugar cravings by inducing a serotonin deficit in the brain chemistry. The sufferer will attempt to compensate for this deficit, and the resulting feelings of discomfort, by consuming refined carbohydrates. The insulin surge that follows will drive branch chained amino acids out of the blood thus allowing


Unprocessed Foods Make you Eat More
Something about the industrial processing of food makes us more likely to overeat, according to a new study. Volunteers ate more and gained more weight on a heavily processed diet than an unprocessed one, even when the two diets had the same available calories and nutrients. The study is “a landmark first,” and a “shot over the bow” in a debate over the health of processed food, says Steven Heymsfield, an obesity researcher at Louisiana State University’s Pennington Biomedica


What's Driving Fibromyalgia?
Dr. Jamie Wright talks “One on One” with Dr. David Brady about his new book, The Fibro Fix, and his 20 years of efforts to resolve the misdiagnosis of Fibromyalgia. “…initial diagnosis is accurate only 34% of the time.” Says Dr. Brady which is less than the flip of a coin. Patients with Fibromyalgia are not getting the treatment they actually need and are often put on FDA approved drugs for Fibromyalgia but those who don’t actually have Fibromyalgia will not be helped and may


ALCAT Test & Weight Loss
Food sensitivities knock the body’s biochemistry out of balance. As we know inflammation in our body contributes to Alzheimer’s, cancer, neurological diseases, autoimmune diseases, arthritis, and much more. These inflammatory mediators also have an effect on metabolism, which inhibit the fat burning, or induce the storage of fat. With chronic biochemistry out of balance the metabolism becomes sluggish, the immune system becomes impaired, the digestive tract develops leaks,


Inflammatory symptoms, immune system and food intolerance
Dr. ner. rat. Silvia Slazenger Inflammatory diseases and degenerative processes have greatly increased in the last decades and parallel the industrialization of food and modern life style. According to the GEK health report 2011 the most common disease of the German population is high blood pressure followed by depression and metabolic disorders such as diabetes 2 and over weight. Atopic disorders affect 5 -20%, about 50% of those patients suffer from atopic eczema. A 2010 su