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5 Practical Tips to Improve Poor Circulation
If you have Poor Circulation, like someone who has cold hands and feet, and maybe even experience symptoms like in Reynaud’s disease, such as hands that can’t even hold a cold drink cup, or hands that turn red when the temperature is barely cool outside, then you might want to pay attention to thess practical tips on how to improve circulation. 1. Get Your Vitamin D Level Up to Optimal Levels Almost every organ in the body has receptors for Vitamin D, and so Vitamin D is a nutrient that is vital for a vast array of health issues, including the proper functioning of the circulatory and muscular system. Vitamin D...
Source: Immune Health Blog - March 18, 2017 Category: Nutrition Authors: Kerri Knox, RN Tags: Heart Health and Cholesterol Vitamin D improve poor circulation improve Reynaud's intermittant claudication reynaud's disease Source Type: blogs

Alzheimer’s Treatment Success Using Coconut Oil?
Alzheimer’s treatment has proven to be a spectacular failure, with few sufferers improving with any degree of significance. However, there is one effective treatment that has received almost no attention by the media and almost no doctors are using it despite the fact that it’s easy, cheap, and readily available. If there were an effective treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, wouldn’t you want your doctor to tell you about it Fortunately, you don’t have to wait for your doctor to tell you about it, you can simply try it out and see if it helps. What is this treatment? Surprisingly, it’s a relatively simple and s...
Source: Immune Health Blog - May 24, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: Kerri Knox, RN Tags: Brain Health/ Neurologic Food and Nutrition Good Fats alzheimer's ketones alzheimers alzheimers and coconut oil alzheimers treatment ketosis for alzheimers neurologic disorders and ketones Source Type: blogs

Alzheimer ’s Treatment Success Using Coconut Oil?
Alzheimer’s treatment has proven to be a spectacular failure, with few sufferers improving with any degree of significance. However, there is one effective treatment that has received almost no attention by the media and almost no doctors are using it despite the fact that it’s easy, cheap, and readily available. If there were an effective treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, wouldn’t you want your doctor to tell you about it Fortunately, you don’t have to wait for your doctor to tell you about it, you can simply try it out and see if it helps. What is this treatment? Surprisingly, it’s a relatively simple and s...
Source: Immune Health Blog - May 24, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: Kerri Knox, RN Tags: Brain Health/ Neurologic Food and Nutrition Good Fats alzheimer's ketones alzheimers alzheimers and coconut oil alzheimers treatment ketosis for alzheimers neurologic disorders and ketones Source Type: blogs

Is Your Antacid Medication Ruining Your Gut?
Proton Pump Inhibitors are a class of Antacid Medication that are so common and considered to be so safe that they were even declassified as prescription drugs and are now available over-the-counter so that anyone can use them if they happen to have heartburn. With names like Omeprazole, Nexium, and Prilosec, the ‘little purple pill’ is advertised everywhere on billboards and TV ads with barely a mention that their might be consequences to suppressing stomach acid. There are consequences of any Acid Reflux Medication, however, like the Side Effects of Omeprazole and other proton pump inhibitors can lead to osteoporosis...
Source: Immune Health Blog - March 2, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: Kerri Knox, RN Tags: Digestive Health Infections Source Type: blogs

Can Your Antacid Cause Alzheimer ’s Disease?
Can your antacid really cause Alzheimer’s Disease? Recent research suggests that, indeed, proton pump inhibitors, some of the most common drugs for reducing feelings of heartburn, can cause an increase in the ‘beta amyloid’ deposits in the brain that are indicative of Alzheimer’s Disease. This is in addition to some of the other serious Proton Pump Inhibitor Side Effects, like osteoporosis, magnesium deficiency and  heart rhythm problems; Antacid Medications can Even Ruin Your Gut. These problems can occur even when these heartburn relieving drugs are taken for short amounts of time. All too often, though, these d...
Source: Immune Health Blog - February 26, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: Kerri Knox, RN Tags: Brain Health/ Neurologic Digestive Health Vitamin B12 alzheimers disease causes cause alzheimer's disease cause of alzheimers disease causes of alzheimers omeprazole side effects proton pump inhibitors proton pump inhibitors cause alzhei Source Type: blogs

Can Your Antacid Cause Alzheimer’s Disease?
Can your antacid really cause Alzheimer’s Disease? Recent research suggests that, indeed, proton pump inhibitors, some of the most common drugs for reducing feelings of heartburn, can cause an increase in the ‘beta amyloid’ deposits in the brain that are indicative of Alzheimer’s Disease. This is in addition to some of the other serious Proton Pump Inhibitor Side Effects, like osteoporosis, magnesium deficiency and  heart rhythm problems; Antacid Medications can Even Ruin Your Gut. These problems can occur even when these heartburn relieving drugs are taken for short amounts of time. All too often, though, these d...
Source: Immune Health Blog - February 26, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: Kerri Knox, RN Tags: Brain Health/ Neurologic Digestive Health Vitamin B12 alzheimers disease causes cause alzheimer's disease cause of alzheimers disease causes of alzheimers omeprazole side effects proton pump inhibitors proton pump inhibitors cause alzhei Source Type: blogs

Preventing Traveler’s Diarrhea Can Be Surprisingly Tasty. See How I Did It.
Potato chips for Preventing Traveler’s Diarrhea? It doesn’t seem likely, but it’s a cheap and easy trick that actually works… if you do it right. And it’s FAR safer for preventing traveler’s diarrhea, than to wait until you get it and take dangerous antibiotics, such as the Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics, that are often used for the treatment of diarrhea, that can cause dangerous ‘superinfections’ such as C-Difficile Infection. But before I tell you how to make potato chips your best friend on a trip to a foreign land, first I’ll tell you how I know it works. Since my hon...
Source: Immune Health Blog - January 31, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: Kerri Knox, RN Tags: Digestive Health gut health prebiotics prevent traveler's diarrhea probiotics resistant starch travel tips Source Type: blogs

Preventing Traveler ’s Diarrhea Can Be Surprisingly Tasty. See How I Did It.
Potato chips for Preventing Traveler’s Diarrhea? It doesn’t seem likely, but it’s a cheap and easy trick that actually works… if you do it right. And it’s FAR safer for preventing traveler’s diarrhea, than to wait until you get it and take dangerous antibiotics, such as the Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics, that are often used for the treatment of diarrhea, that can cause dangerous ‘superinfections’ such as C-Difficile Infection. But before I tell you how to make potato chips your best friend on a trip to a foreign land, first I’ll tell you how I know it works. Since my hon...
Source: Immune Health Blog - January 31, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: Kerri Knox, RN Tags: Digestive Health gut health prebiotics prevent traveler's diarrhea probiotics resistant starch travel tips Source Type: blogs

Salt For Adrenal Fatigue. Can it Make you Worse?
Salt for Adrenal Fatigue? Is it helpful, or can it make you worse? While there are a lot of websites out there suggesting taking sea salt for adrenal fatigue, someone recently wrote me stating that sea salt ‘stimulates’ fatigued adrenals, and therefore it’s like ‘beating a dead horse’ and that refraining from taking salt would allow the adrenals to rest. She stated that she got this information from a book entitled ‘We Want to Live’ by Aajonus Vonderplanitz. While I have not personally read the book, and am not going to comment on the book itself,  or whether the reader was co...
Source: Immune Health Blog - January 2, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: Kerri Knox, RN Tags: Food and Nutrition Help for Fatigue Specific Health Problems adrenal exhaustion adrenal fatigue does salt help the adrenals is salt bad for you salt for adrenal fatigue Source Type: blogs

The Yijing in Chinese Medicine Clinical Practice – Part 2
Part 2 – The First Two Hurdles to Successful Divination in the Clinic Welcome to the second installment of this article series on Divination in Clinical Practice. If you’re interested in reading the first part – all you have to do is click this link. Today we’ve got a little double-header. Last time we introduced the idea that divination, and in particular the Yijing, might be useful in the clinic. Not just useful, in fact, but potent and transformative, as the oracle itself suggested when we asked the Yi about its own clinical potential (Hexagrams 31 and 49). However, there are some hurdles standing b...
Source: Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine - January 30, 2015 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Jonathan Edwards Tags: Acupuncture, Herbs & Other modalities Source Type: blogs

Fucoxanthin for Weight Loss, Can Seaweed Help you Lose Weight?
Fucoxanthin is an antioxidant that is extracted from a particular kind of seaweed called Undaria pinnatifida, more commonly known as wakame, which many of you might have tried in sushi restaurants as the green chewy salad that is served as ‘seaweed salad’. Fucoxanthin is a bright orange pigmented carotenoid, which is in the same class of antioxidant as that of carrots. Some carotenoids, like beta carotene, are also ‘precursors’ to Vitamin A, however fucoxanthin is not. Fucoxanthin may be an interesting substance, however, in that in at least one study has shown that it has a higher amount of free radical qu...
Source: Immune Health Blog - January 24, 2015 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Kerri Knox, RN Tags: Food and Nutrition Reviews Supplements fucoxanthin fucoxanthin for weight loss weight loss supplements Source Type: blogs

The Yijing in Chinese Medicine Clinical Practice – Part 1
Editor’s Note : This is the first in a series of posts by Jonathan Edwards about the use of the Yijing (I Ching) in Chinese medicine clinical practice. A new topic for the site – it should be an interesting read! Part 1: The Clinician’s Golden Compass Welcome to the first in a series of articles on applying the Yijing in clinical practice. For those not familiar, the Yijing (or I Ching) is an ancient Chinese oracle, or system of divination, with close ties to Classical Chinese Medicine. Speaking as it does in very compressed symbols, the oracle has a reputation for being hard to understand. That’s one of th...
Source: Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine - January 23, 2015 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Jonathan Edwards Tags: Acupuncture, Herbs & Other modalities Source Type: blogs

Why I spend all my time up to my eyeballs in Chinese medicine
There is no doubt that I spend the majority of my time everyday thinking about, studying, using and generally drowning myself in Chinese medicine. Don’t get me wrong – I do spend time and energy elsewhere. I love music. I garden. I hang out watching television and movies from time to time. I like to talk about the Portland food scene, and ethics and so on. But all of that just feeds my addiction to the universe of information I have devoted my life to – this particular way of looking at the earth, the heavens, and the human being in between. I am particularly passionate about the ongoing work here at Chin...
Source: Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine - January 19, 2015 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Eric Grey Tags: Community and Cultivation Source Type: blogs

What Happened to Longevity Plus?
What happened to Longevity Plus? Did Longevity Plus go Out of Business? Unfortunately, Longevity Plus closed their doors and went out of business unexpectedly on Thursday January 8th with virtually no notice to their employees, and no notice to their customers or those of us who supply their products. Their employees were given no reason as to why the company, that has been in business for over a decade providing quality products to thousands of customers around the country, went out of business. It is suspected, however, that it was due to financial issues and not for any external reasons such as having been shut down by ...
Source: Immune Health Blog - January 12, 2015 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Kerri Knox, RN Tags: Supplements beyond any multiple beyond b12 beyond cellular impurities beyond chelation improved beyond ener-c did longevity plus go out of business what happened to longevity plus Source Type: blogs

Is Yacon Syrup A Healthy Sweetener?
Yacon syrup is a natural vegan sweetener derived from a root that is grown in the Andes Mountains of Peru. Yacon is a food that has long been eaten by the indigenous Andeans in the same way that potatoes are eaten; it even looks much like a sweet potato, but is more closely related to chicory and Jerusalem artichoke (sunchoke) than potatoes or sweet potatoes(1). It truly is a natural sweetener that is processed in much the same way maple syrup is, so you can rest assured that it’s not a highly-processed chemical-laden artificial food. In fact, yacon syrup requires such a small amount of processing that some companies hav...
Source: Immune Health Blog - January 6, 2015 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Kerri Knox, RN Tags: Digestive Health Food and Nutrition Reviews superfoods #review yacon and ketosis yacon benefits yacon syrup Source Type: blogs