by Sharon Erdrich | Jul 30, 2021 | Nutrition Health, Articles
What is Lactose? Before exploring lactose intolerance, it’s good to understand lactose. Lactose is the sugar the is naturally found in animal milk (cow, goat, human, etc). It is a disaccharide. That means it’s two (di-) sugar (saccharide) molecules joined...
by Sharon Erdrich | Jul 29, 2021 | Articles
What are the Symptoms of Asthma? By Zoe Hunt (BPharm, BNatMed) [Ed: Sharon Erdrich] Symptoms of asthma can include wheezing, coughing (which may nor may not be productive), shortness of breath, tightness in the chest and fatigue. Sometimes the only sign of asthma can...
by Sharon Erdrich | Jun 25, 2021 | Articles
The explosion of research in the area of the gut microbiome in recent years has revealed what natural medicine proponists have been saying for over a century: The gut microbiome has a critical role in health. Both good health and poor health. Not only does the gut...
by Sharon Erdrich | Jan 28, 2021 | General Health, Articles, Health Conditions
Can You be Too Flexible? YES! Hyperflexibility in a joint means you can extend a joint beyond the normal range expected for that particular joint. Being abnormally flexible may indicate a disorder of connective tissue, sometimes called hypermobility. Often, people...
by Sharon Erdrich | Dec 10, 2020 | Articles
If you or a loved one seems to be reacting badly to foods such as bread, cereals and pasta, it may be due to their gluten content. Some people have heard about coeliac disease, but it is possible to develope a condition called non-coeliac gluten sensitivity (NCGS)....
by Sharon Erdrich | Oct 16, 2020 | Articles
Long before the advent of probiotic supplements, humans included fermented foods in the diet. In fact the earliest evidence we have, suggests we have consumed them as far back as 7000 BC1. Historically food was fermented as a method of preservation to extend its...
