by Brenda Watson | Jan 14, 2016 | Adults, Diet, Digestive Health, Enzymes, GERD, Heart Disease, Heartburn, Indigestion, PPIs, Probiotics & Gut Flora, Reflux
Last Monday it was reported by NPR that the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) will soon be publishing yet one more reason to leave those PPIs alone! Protect your kidneys! You can now add kidneys to previous evidence of increased risk of bone fracture,...
by Brenda Watson | Dec 3, 2012 | General
I have to laugh sometimes at mainstream medicine, pharmaceuticals particularly. Pharmaceutical companies spend millions of dollars marketing drugs in order to make billions of dollars in profits, all at the expense of the health, and pocketbooks, of people who are...
by Brenda Watson | Dec 14, 2011 | General
A team of researchers at Mayo Clinic recently uncovered an interesting physician bias regarding the diagnosis of the upper digestive conditions gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and functional dyspepsia (also known as indigestion). The two conditions can...
by Brenda Watson | Jul 20, 2011 | General
The gut-brain connection is an interesting one because it travels in two directions—from the brain to the gut and from the gut to the brain. For the longest time this connection was thought to only travel in one direction, from the brain to the gut, like when strong...
by Brenda Watson | Mar 2, 2011 | General
Most people have a difficult time making the association between what is going on in the gut and health problems in other parts of the body. I help them connect the dots so that they can achieve better health. I help them get started on The Road to Perfect Health....