Blood Sugar Metabolism

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there!      Today we’re going to start talking about blood sugar metabolism and break it down into a very simple explanation.  Your pancreas produces insulin.  Your liver and adrenal glands also plays a role in this.  The following is meant as a basic overview of the part…

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Helping Our Internal Filters

  Our internal filters obviously would appreciate it if we would avoid our intake of toxins so they don’t have so much to deal with.  It’s easier to avoid the toxin in the first place than to ask your body to deal with it once you’ve ingested it.  Know that the more they have to…

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Cleaning and Maintaining Your Body

   Do you wash your clothes, clean your house, clean the lint out of your dryer, replace furnace filters, and replace broken roof shingles?  Why?  We invest a lot of money in our homes, appliances, and furniture.  We want them to look good and perform for a long time, therefore, we take care of them.…

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Candida

    The parasitic yeast-like fungus that causes Candida loves to eat and their favorite “food” is sugar (glucose).  And our diets are full of sugar for them to eat!  Carbohydrates (bread, pasta, etc.) and anything containing any form of sugar is broken down into glucose molecules through the digestive process.  If you don’t digest your…

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Microflora Balance, Dysbiosis, and Candida

    As with most things in life, and especially most things in the body, balance is key. Your body strives to stay in balance in all areas and has several ways of doing this.  Your colon needs to maintain a good balance of microflora to stay healthy. What are microflora? Microflora is the term used…

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More Poop!

So, with all the poop we talked about yesterday, you might be wondering about your own poop.  For example, we talked about it taking 12 to 18 hours for food to go all the way through your system.  How do you know how long it takes YOUR digestive tract to process food?  Here is a…

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