Herbal Medicine & Gut Health | Byron Bay & Australia
Byron Bay, the land of rolling green hills, beautiful white sand beaches, warm ocean water… and parasites.
Yup I said it, parasites.
Unfortunately this is the elephant in the room that no one seems to be talking about, much less …
The elimination diet is one of the gold standards in functional medicine and is one of the most reliable ways to get down to the brass tax. What foods are helping me and what ones are hindering me. In the …
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is common. More common than you might think. Estimates vary depending on the study but it is somewhere in the ballpark of 3-20% of certain populations worldwide. Not only is it common the effects of IBS …
It is interesting to see how quickly (or not so quickly as the case may be) we update our bias based on new information and scientific discovery. A prime example of this idea would be the acceptance that dreaded fat …
Is leaky gut a prerequisite to developing an autoimmune condition? Dr. Alessio Fasano thinks so.
Autoimmune diseases have been an interest of mine since learning that a close friend had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at a young age. Before …
My interest in Functional Medicine and health in general came about from a very selfish place. Living in the Byron Bay hinterlands at the age of 27, for the first time in my life, I experienced the first symptoms that …
Today we’ll be covering one option to test your gut for infections called the CDSA (comprehensive digestive stool analysis) test and why I recommend getting the add on PCR stool test as well. The CDSA is offered by a number …
Herbal antimicrobials is a subject I am very interested in.
With a bit of tweaking I managed to eradicate two parasites (Blastocystis hominis and Dientamoeba fragilis) using differrent herbal antimicrobials, immune boosters and anti-inflammatories.
As a student of herbal …
Mastic gum is harvested from the bark of Pistacia lentiscus var. Chi (aka mastic tree) and has been used in herbal medicine for thousands of years.
Use of mastic gum dates back to the bronze age Egyptians that apparently used …
Dientamoeba fragilis is a protozoan parasite.
It frequently comes hand in hand with another bug known as Blastocystis hominis.
As a human parasite goes it is reasonably prevalent with estimates of infection ranging from 0.4% to 42%. The interesting …