Could Sugar Be Behind Your Hair Thinning?
Sugar’s impact on hair is strongly supported by clinical research focusing on insulin resistance, inflammation, and glycation. This research-based blog explains the connections. How Sugar-Driven Inflammation Shows Up on Your Scalp High-sugar diets repeatedly spike blood glucose and insulin, creating the same internal environment seen in many patients with early, aggressive pattern hair loss.[1][2][4] Clinical […]
Unveiling the Secret: The Link Between Hair Loss and Gut Health
Have you ever considered the connection between hair loss and gut health? It’s a link that’s often overlooked, but it’s crucial to understand. Your gut is tied to nearly every function in your body, so when your gut health is off, it impacts everything – including your hair. Factors like nutrition absorption, inflammation, hormone control, […]
Unlocking the Secrets to Natural Hair Growth with Functional Nutrition
Here’s a podcast interview and summary I did on natural hair growth The Journey to Natural Hair Growth Julie Olson’s mission to combat hair loss naturally, stems from her own personal experience and a decade of expertise in functional nutrition. Recognizing hair loss as a common but distressing issue, especially among women, Olson has dedicated […]
The Forgotten Organ… Scalp-Hair-Follicles
Maybe you are wondering what nutrition has to do with hair thinning and hormones. LOTS, TONS!! Let’s start with the unknown fact that Scalp-Hair-Follicles are the Forgotten Organ. There are many reasons why this is important, but I’ll summarize the top 3… Scalp-Hair-Follicles: All of which require adequate nutrient consumption and ABSORPTION. And when this […]
How Does Gut Health Affect Sleep?
Gut health affects your body’s ability to fall asleep and stay asleep Tryptophan (TRP) is an essential amino acid, which means that it must be included in the diet because the body cannot produce it. Tryptophan is used by gut bacteria to manufacture several important metabolites, including serotonin. Serotonin is essential for sleep and a […]
What Does It Mean to Eat TRULY Gluten-Free?
The traditional gluten-free diet is the most commonly consumed. Unfortunately, this diet is merely switching gluten-containing packaged, processed products for gluten-free packaged processed foods which are still unhealthy. Many over-the-counter packaged foods contain cross-contamination of gluten. Also, many “gluten-free” products contain other types of grain-based glutens that have not been adequately studied to be safe […]
Listen to Your Gut; It’s Your Second Brain
Gut flora, gut microbiota, or gastrointestinal microbiota is the complex community of microorganisms that live in the digestive tracts of all vertebrates. The gut microbiota has the largest numbers of bacteria. This microbiome also contains the greatest number of species compared to other areas of the body. An associated term, sometimes used interchangeably with gut […]
Why Your Microbiome Cannot Be Ignored
Called one of the top scientific discoveries of the 21st century, the human microbiome, cannot be ignored. It’s a game changer for better understanding disease and health. The microbiome is a crew of bacteria (also referred to as microorganisms) that live in and outside the human body. In fact, there are 100 trillion of these […]
Paleo vs Keto: Similarities, Differences + Which Is Best For You
The Paleo diet and the Ketogenic diet have both gained extreme popularity in recent years for their acclaimed ability to promote weight loss, fat reduction, improved metabolism, and numerous other benefits. While there are a lot of overlapping similarities between the two, Paleo and Keto each have their own unique purpose that, at times, can […]
Seasonal Allergies Link to Gut Health
What does gut health have to do with hay fever or seasonal allergies? Probably a lot more than you might think. Allergies and hay fever are an inappropriate defensive response to pollen and other substances. According to Dr. Joseph Mercola, “Besides being associated with inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis, or celiac disease, […]