When I was in medical school, I used to come across textbooks that said if your patient has three bowel movements a week, that’s “normal.” Wow -- can you imagine walking around carrying tacos from three nights ago in your belly? How’s that considered normal?

Going to the bathroom once every three days allows waste materials to spend far too much time in your digestive tract. As a result, toxins and antigens have the opportunity to invade your body. Not only do you end up feeling bloated, this puts you at risk for developing more serious digestive disorders, headaches, insomnia, and even cancer.

Prevalent Crohn’s Disease symptoms are marked with inflammation, especially right lower quadrant of abdomen. This is often accompanied by abdominal pain and tenderness, distention, constipation and vomiting. In late development, abdominal fistulas and abscesses can cause fever, generalized wasting and abdominal mass development.

Conventional therapies typically include reducing inflammation with steroidal and sulfa drugs, although no pharmaceutical cures are known.

Here are some alternative theories...

Have you ever looked at your stomach and thought I feel fat? You try to eat better, and get more exercise, but you still have days where your belly looks and feels huge? What if that bulge (or at least some of it) is actually bloating and not fat? That's what I discovered about 2 years ago.

The FDA loves a good fist fight with the supplement industry. It gives everyone the impression that they are the “good guys” out to protect the consumer against “dangerous” all-natural products.

And last month, the FDA struck a knock-out. The all-natural dietary supplement Hydroxycut has been voluntarily yanked off the market following reports of liver damage, including one person who needed a liver transplant, and one related death.

There are always raging debates about the origin of humankind, but here is one undeniable fact.  You are a mobile fleshy feeding TUBE.  You are a tube in as much as you have two openings, an inlet/outlet and a tunnel which is technically exposed to the outside world.  This tunnel, also known as your GI tract, is not a sterile environment and is LOADED with bacteria.  Seriously loaded.  There are TEN TIMES the amount of bacterial cells in your GI tract than there are human cells in your entire body!!! Makes you wonder who’s in charge – are we just a complex machine designed as a way to transport bacteria?

The importance of having a good breakfast cannot be overstated, but a new survey shows about half of all families skip breakfasts together, even on the weekends. The right morning foods can do so much for you. Breakfast stabilizes morning blood sugar drops, provides sustainable energy, improves concentration and work or academic performance. Studies show that people who skip breakfast are actually more likely to have weight problems than those who don’t skip it.

Question: Do you have any information on natural treatments for candidiasis?

On the advice of my eco beauty expert friend, I recently started using raw apple cider vinegar (ACV) as a rinse to keep my hair clean, shiny, and soft. To my surprise, it really does work and honestly does not smell, as long as you rinse very well.

You've heard me talk plenty about how NSAID painkillers can cause stomach bleeding… a big problem for anyone, but potentially a very serious issue for older patients. Well, it turns out that if you're also taking an antidepressant, your risk of GI bleeding shoots through the roof. Here's what you need to know.