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The Immune System Also Helps A Healthy Body

Posted by Manuela Boyle on 19 February 2022
The Immune System Also Helps A Healthy Body
The immune system has cells stationed all over the body, and they're actually doing their business even if you're fit as a fiddle. This is shown in a new study published in the scientific journal Cell Metabolism. Until recently, they believed that the immune system was mostly dormant unless the body was under attack in connection with infections. However, it now turns out that the immune system most likely also plays an important role for perfectly healthy people and can affect ...
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The Fasting Mimicking Diet

Posted by Manuela Boyle on 18 February 2022
The Fasting Mimicking Diet
The Fasting Mimicking Diet  is a high nutrition, low protein, low carbohydrate meal plan in which calories are restricted for five days out of a month. The fasting mimicking diet has the benefits of fasting without depriving the body of food. This diet has been proven to beneficially change biomarkers associated with ageing, inflammation, and poor health.
As rates of disease continue to rise, people are taking charge of their health and turning to non-conventional therapies for heal...
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The Meaning of Low Secretory IgA levels

Posted by Manuela Boyle on 16 February 2022
The Meaning of Low Secretory IgA levels
Secretory IgA (sIgA) is a biomarker that may reflect the impact of stress on the immune system as well as the resilience of the immune response. Secretory IgA is synthesized by activated B cells along mucosal membranes in the oral cavity, nasal passages, ocular surfaces, gastrointestinal tract, respiratory tract, and the genitourinary tract. Since these mucosal surfaces are exposed to the outside world, sIgA is considered to be an important part of the first line of immune defence against th...
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The Root Cause of the Disease

Posted by Manuela Boyle on 7 August 2021
The Root Cause of the Disease
Functional medicine empowers patients and practitioners to achieve the highest expression of health by working collaboratively to address the root causes of disease. It is an emerging, personalized model of diagnosis and treatment that better addresses the need to prevent and manage chronic disease. In a word, it is the medicine of WHY, not WHAT. Functional Medicine practitioners are like soil farmers. They create a healthy soil, so pests can't come and weeds can't flourish. A heal...
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Combo of Insufficient Sleep and Physical Activity Tied to Mortality Risks

Posted by Geoff Beaty on 9 July 2021
Combo of Insufficient Sleep and Physical Activity Tied to Mortality Risks
Sedentary people who also sleep poorly have a significantly higher risk of all-cause, cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality than those with just one of these risk factors or neither, a UK study suggests. Researchers examined data on 380,055 participants (mean age 55.9 years) in the UK Biobank study who had baseline data on moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) as well as composite sleep scores based on chronotype, sleep duration, insomnia, snoring, and daytime sleepiness. Rese...
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A Functional Medicine Approach to Cancer

Posted by Manuela Boyle on 4 July 2021
A Functional Medicine Approach to Cancer
Functional medicine empowers patients and practitioners to achieve the highest expression of health by working collaboratively to address the root causes of disease. It is an emerging, personalized model of diagnosis and treatment that better addresses the need to prevent and manage chronic disease. In a word, it is the medicine of WHY, not WHAT. Functional Medicine doctors are like soil farmers. They create a healthy soil, so pests can't come and weeds can't flourish. A healthy soi...
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  • The Institute for Functional Medicine
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  • Naturopaths and Herbalists Association of Australia
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