How to Stay Healthy While Traveling Why travel if you’re not going to eat all the food? The world is sometimes literally your oyster, and one that your stomach isn’t familiar with how to digest. Other times, it can be a matter of someone using the local tap water to rinse your veggies. Whoever is to blame for the sudden evacuation of your insides, you want it to stop like yesterday. I’m sorry. Did I say ‘want?’ I meant ‘need.’…
Get a clear complexion with probiotics! Eczema is an inflammatory skin disorder, it appears by forming blisters of crust like chunks or patch-like scaly rashes that itch. Thickened and dry or red skin, scaling, and blisters are among the common symptoms. There is no cure yet, but luckily, symptoms come and go. Probiotics can help reduce the symptoms and even prevent the flare-ups. Bet you never thought that by helping your gut, you could clear your skin? Well, you’re not the…
Probiotics, Weight loss and Candida Going on a diet isn’t easy, and many people suffer from unwanted and uncomfortable symptoms such as gas, bloating, and abdominal discomfort. Even when successful, people usually have a hard time getting rid of their persistent midsection fat, and have intense cravings for sugary foods, breads, pasta and sometimes even alcohol. Most blame themselves, and their lack of “willpower” but for many these cravings are not their own fault, but the fault of an overgrowth of yeast,…
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The intestinal lining is responsible for this common gastrointestinal disorder. Leaky Gut happens when the intestinal lining is more porous than normal, when large spaces appear in the gut wall allowing substances to leak out of the gut and into the blood stream. In such cases, substances like bacteria, fungi, parasites and partially digested molecules might dissipate through the blood stream thus occasioning the immune system to detect the micro-organisms and to send antibodies against them so as to destroy them. The presence…
Colic: Colic refers to a very common condition in infants and a great source of stress for parents. Young children with colic may cry for episodes of three hours or more, at least three days in a week. During these fits, the child will be perfectly healthy, he will not be hungry, need changing or want to be held, yet he is totally inconsolable. To date, there are no known remedies or cures for colic but, there may be a way of…
Most yogurts that are sold in supermarkets today are pasteurized, meaning all the live bacteria originally inside were killed through this process. Yogurts that contain probiotics have these probiotics added to them after pasteurization. Make sure these yogurts always say they contain “live and active cultures”, as probiotics are not efficient when dead. Also, keep an eye on the expiration dates of these yogurts, as this is also the lifespan of the bacteria contained inside. Most yogurts do not…
Probiotics to save you from the discomfort and embarrassment of diarrhea Diarrhea is an extremely common illness, and everyone usually gets it about once a year. Diarrhea can be caused by many different things, the main one being intestinal imbalance. When the bacteria inside your intestines that digest your food are unbalanced, meaning contain too many pathogens among them, they react by no digesting your food properly. Intestinal imbalance can be caused by many things: bacterial or viral…
Across Greater Vancouver and Victoria, Pure Integrative Pharmacy is probably the best place to find your prescription drugs, vitamins and supplements, your favorite personal care products and last, but not least, to get good advice from highly qualified employees working there. Like the founder and owner, Bob Mehr, said few weeks ago in an interview, Pure Pharmacy is more of a care center than a traditional drugstore; every single person working there is knowledgeable in the area of…
Prebiotics are non-digestible soluble fibers that stimulate the growth and multiplication of the beneficial bacteria in the gut. They are mainly used to fuel the probiotics and ease bowel movements. However, prebiotics have many other good characteristics, which explains why NOVA has prebiotic included in each of its formula: They work as anti-carcinogens: When probiotics and prebiotics meet, they produce Butyrate, a short chain of fatty acids that remove dead and mutated cells (cacogenic cells) from the body. They…