As a part of digestion, your stomach secretes acids and enzymes that help to break down food and promote absorption of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients. Although the acids are highly corrosive, your stomach’s walls are coated with a sticky mucus that neutralizes the acids to prevent them from causing damage. How Can I Repair My…
Natural Anti-Aging Remedies and Your Daily Nutrition
The human body is constantly aging. With every year, day, hour, and minute that passes, your cells grow older. While everyone understands what aging is, not many are sure why it happens, or at least what causes it at the molecular level. For a long time, scientists believed that aging was a result of molecular…
What is the Leaky Gut Diet and How Does It Work?
Your digestive system is a complex system that is designed to help absorb nutrients, break down food, and expel waste. Stretching about 30 feet from mouth to anus, your alimentary canal is an essential part of the digestive system that supports good health. For instance, your gut plays a key role in fighting off foodborne…
How Long Does It Take for Colostrum to Work?
Bovine colostrum has become an increasingly popular supplement that helps support muscle strength and stamina while promoting your digestive and immune health. These potential benefits are enticing, but colostrum does take time to be effective. Let’s take a closer look at colostrum and how long it may take to work. What is Colostrum? Colostrum is…
5 Ways to Boost Your Immune System
Your immune system comprises several different organs and structures within the body, all designed to protect you from damage and disease caused by foreign microbes. When it works properly, it can properly discern between your own healthy tissue and any invading bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites. Important components of your immune system include the lymph…
What Should I Know About Vitamin C?
Vitamin C deficiency can cause a wide range of problems, including gingivitis, bleeding gums, easy bruising, nosebleeds, damaged hair, and unhealthy skin. Although rare, severe vitamin C deficiency can result in scurvy (or scorbutus), which is characterized by joint pains, poor wound healing, and generalized edema. That all just goes to show how crucial vitamin…
Colostrum and the Fight Against IBS
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), also referred to as spastic colon, is a chronic gastrointestinal (GI) disorder that occurs in several forms. If IBS is not closely managed, it causes long-term intestinal cramps, abdominal pain, bloating, gas, diarrhea, and other GI issues. Colostrum and the Fight Against IBS was last modified: July 13th, 2018 by Sovereign…
10 Ways to Improve Your Gut Health
Your digestive system consists of a complex network of organs that are designed to break down food, absorb nutrients, and eliminate waste. This intricate system measures about 30 feet on average and starts at the mouth and ends at the anus. Unfortunately, the combination of junk foods, alcohol, stress, and other modern environmental factors can…
Colostrum and the Gut-Brain Axis
Your body is home to trillions of microbes. Most are harmless, but many play an active role in your health. A large portion of helpful bacteria can be found in your stomach and intestines, ensuring healthy digestion and metabolism so that you can get as much nutrition from your food as possible. However, growing research…
8 Natural Antioxidants You Didn’t Know About
When the cells in your body become oxidized (a complex process where they are chemically combined with oxygen), they produce compounds known as free radicals. Free radicals cause damage to cells, proteins, and even your DNA, which can contribute to diseases and accelerate aging. Free radicals are fairly ubiquitous in the environment as well as…