Tweet Healthcare professionals have been encouraging us to reduce our salt intake to decrease the risk of heart attack or stroke. Now we may have another reason to avoid this harmful taste booster. A study published in Nature suggests that a type of white blood cell called Th17 play a critical role in autoimmunity (immune attack on healthy cells). Even though TH17 cells are known to encourage autoimmunity, they are also...

TweetFor those of you who are not familiar with Cyrex Labs, they specialize in lab testing related to gluten sensitivities and how gluten influences the intestinal tract and immune system. Cyrex Labs’ most recent test panel is the array 5. This test is a screen for what is called “predictive auto-antibodies”. These antibodies tend to be elevated years before any symptoms of autoimmunity (immune self-attack) ever...

TweetCyrex Labs has revolutionized the world of gluten intolerant testing. Their arrays 1-4 use advanced technology to find gluten intolerance, leaky gut syndrome, gluten cross-reactive foods, and the potential for autoimmune celiac disease.  However, they haven’t stopped there. Cyrex Labs has now developed a new test that will screen for one of the major issues associated with gluten, autoimmunity. Autoimmunity is a...

TweetThe FDA is now requiring drug companies to add an additional WARNING to their cholesterol lowering statins (or HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors). New studies have shown that statins greatly increase the risk of insulin resistance and diabetes. Statins Increase HbA1C Hemoglobin A1C, (HbA1C) is a great test. It allows us to see how blood sugar is effecting our red blood cells (therefore our entire body). High blood sugar forms a...

TweetOptimal nutrition is key to slowing biological aging and preventing disease. This is exactly why you may want to ignore the Recommended Dietary Allowance or RDA. You may not know this: the majority of public health education comes from the marketing departments of Fortune 500 companies. You see a 3-second commercial for a nutritional supplement indicating it has 100% of the RDA. The consumer says, “Great! I can get...

TweetGo Beyond Cholesterol Testing and Into Genetics Is Cholesterol Testing A Thing of the Past? In the past few decades, standard health care had used basic cholesterol testing as the cornerstone for the treatment of heart disease. However, more than 50 percent of those with “normal” values end up hospitalized due to a stroke or heart attack1 . We now know cholesterol isn’t the sole problem.  What must be...

Tweet Could a Simple Lyme Disease Test Uncover Mystery Illnesses? Lyme disease is one of the most overlooked conditions in the US. Why? The main reason is that early Lyme disease symptoms are extremely similar to that of the common cold. This makes it very easy for doctors who are not very well versed in Lyme disease to miss it or disregard it as a cold. Untreated Lyme disease...