I’ve already talked about several mechanisms by which the gut microbiome and brain communicate, such as the enteric nervous system (aka the “2nd brain”) and the vagus nerve, but I haven’t really gotten into the IMMUNE SYSTEM and how dang much of it lives in our guts.  The immune system is a KEY player in […]

During initial visits, I always take my patients through what I call the Foundations of Health: diet & digestion (i.e. nutrition), stress management (cue: mindset), sleep, and movement. These build the foundations for a healthy gut, hormones, and beyond. Nutritional supplementation, herbal medicine, and acupuncture can be wonderful to help the body re-establish health, but […]

Most people have heard of Lactose intolerance, but what about Histamine intolerance? Also referred to as ‘enteral histaminosis’ or sensitivity to dietary histamine, it is a disorder associated with an impaired ability to break down ingested histamine. Most people think, “Huh? We ingest histamine?!”. People hear histamine and think of allergies.