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Fasting for Beginners
Fasting is the process of abstaining from all food, and by activating different aspects of human biology, fasting is an incredible healing tool that can be used to reduce inflammation throughout the body, lose weight, heal the gut, reset the microbiome, improve the immune system, and much more. Get started on the first foot with this beginners guide to fasting.
How to Restore Healthy Microbiome
The gut microbiome and gut-brain axis have a tremendous influence over your physical, mental, and emotional health. Learn how to support symbiotic gut microbes and limit pathogenic gut microbes holistically with natural methods like lifestyle and dietary changes, fasting, and herbalism.
How to use Peppermint Oil and Tea for IBS
Bloating, gas, abdominal pain, and variable gut motility from IBS can be quite troublesome, and peppermint is an effective treatment for IBS because of its unique chemical properties. Learn why peppermint is useful in naturally treating IBS and how to use peppermint essential oil and peppermint tea to improve gut health.
How to Heal Leaky Gut with Fasting
16, 24, and 48 hour fasts are one of if not the best way to heal leaky gut easily and effectively. By giving the digestive system time to rest from the rigors of digestion and by activating autophagy, digestive barriers can be restored to their normal integrity and leaky gut is healed.
Coffee and Digestion - The Complete Guide
Coffee is enjoyed the world over, and its destabilizing effects on digestion have been experienced by a majority of people who drink coffee. By effecting the autonomic nervous system coffee influences digestion, but if the right steps are taken, coffee can improve digestion and favorably alter the microbiome.
Apigenin is Nature's most Powerful Flavonoid
When it comes to fighting cancer few other phytochemicals if any can match the effects of apigenin. Apigenin is a flavonoid most notably found in parsley and chamomile flowers that in addition to its powerful anticancer effects also improves mental health disorders, heals the gut and microbiome, is neuroprotective, and so much more! Learn more about apigenin and the best way to supplement with it.
Herbal Teas and Fasting for Gut Health
Combing herbal teas with fasting is one of the safest and best ways to heal the gut and dramatically improve digestion. Herbs like dandelion and chamomile are already highly beneficial for the gut and overall wellness, and their unique phytochemicals make fasting easier and more effective. Learn more.
How to Cleanse the Microbiome
The microbiome is a collection of microorganisms that exist at the cellular level and are incredibly important to life. When the microbiome of a person or environment becomes out of balance and diseased, cleansing the microbiome restores health and proper symbiotic function. A one day microbiome cleanse is an efficient way to cleanse an internal and external microbiome all at once.
Microbiome and Behavior
There is a bidirectional connection between the microbiome and food behaviors. An unhealthy pathogenic microbiome can feed itself through behavioral patterning of its host, and a healthy symbiotic microbome can likewise encourage beneficial feeding behaviors for itself and its host. The state of the microbiome determines whether you have crave healthy or junk foods. Fasting can reset this system.
How to get Rid of Parasites
Parasites are creatures that feed off their host and can cause serious disease or even death. Parasites can range from microscopic amoeba to tapeworms 5x longer than you are tall. Parasites are transmitted typically through contaminated water, poorly cooked meat, or exposure to feces. More people have parasites than they realize, and removing them will have a huge positive impact on your health.
5 Incredible Health Benefits to Pumpkin Seeds
Pumpkins are a large squash that can grow to exceptional size, and the real treasure of pumpkins is their seeds. Pumpkin seeds have many notable health benefits, from their excellent micronutrient and macronutrient profiles to their anti-microbial and anti-parasitic effects. Learn the top five reasons why you should regularly include pumpkin seeds into your diet.
Green Tea Fasting
Green tea fasting burns body fat, heals the gut, balances the microbiome, and lowers bodily inflammation. Fasting is the best way to activate autophagy and undergo a cellular deep cleaning, and drinking green tea during a fast ramps up autophagic processes even more. Learn about green tea fasting with this complete guide.
Use Fasting to Reset the Digestive System
Fasting is a powerful tool which can be used to hit the reset button on an out-of-control microbiome. Fasting also provides the digestive system a chance to rest and heal. A 48 hour fast is the quickest method possible for favorably altering the microbiome and healing the gut, and its easier done than you think.
How to Reset Dietary Beliefs
Fad diets all have one thing in common: they tell you what you can't eat. Diets don't address the underlying psychology behind why overeating or poor health exist in the first place. Developing mindfulness and an inclusive, long-term mindset for diet and health is the first step towards sustainable lasting progress.
Swap Oats for a Buckwheat Breakfast
Buckwheat is a type of flowering plant whose seeds resemble grains, and as such is often referred to as a psuedocereal. Due to its biology, buckwheat is easier to digest than oats and has a different micronutrient profile, containing lots of magnesium which most people are deficient in. Buckwheat like oats can be made into a warm porridge and makes for a great breakfast.