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Food Sensitivity, Food Intolerance, Or Food Allergy? Six Reasons Food Reactions Won’t Go Away
Have you ever eaten something that seemed perfectly healthy, only to spend the rest of the day bloated, exhausted, itchy, or running to the bathroom? Maybe your joints ached for a few days after pizza night, or perhaps that innocent-looking smoothie left you wanting...
The Many Faces of Fusobacterium nucleatum and How It Impacts Cancer Across the Oral-Gut Axis
What microbe can be a friend, an enemy, or a cancer-promoter throughout the length of the gastrointestinal tract? It’s Fusobacterium nucleatum, a fundamental good bacteria that helps organize and create structure for the oral microbiome. But Fusobacterium nucleatum...
6 Steps to Gut Health and Colon Cancer Prevention
Poop is yuck. Colonoscopies- who would want one? "Colon Blow" skit on Saturday Night Live- hilarious! But all poop jokes aside, we need to spend more time thinking about poop so we can conquer one of the fiercest enemies of our healthy, long lives- colorectal...
5 Natural Solutions for Increased Circulation and Healthy Blood Pressure
Cardiovascular disease is the #1 killer across the globe. But you know what? No one really mentions that it is reversible. That's right; it doesn't have to be a life sentence. Diet and lifestyle are what heart disease is all about. Now, eating a healthy diet rich in...
#1 Best Test for Crohn’s Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, and Gut Inflammation
There is one test that I recommend for everyone struggling with Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, and gut inflammation. We will discuss why this test helps uncover the root causes of gut inflammation. By addressing Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis with a...
How Brushing, Flossing, and Tongue Scraping Shape the Oral Microbiome
We all grew up with consistent messages to brush, floss, and get dental checkups regularly. But how does dental hygiene actually affect the bacteria in our mouths? This article takes a look at how the traditional method of managing the oral microbiome- dental hygiene-...
Feeling Tired and Fatigued? Boost Energy by Supporting Mitochondria
Feeling fatigued? Feeling exhausted by your gym workouts? Are normal daily tasks taking it out of you when they didn’t before? Some people will reach for coffee or a sugary snack to boost their energy levels. But the real reason for your flagging energy levels is...
Breast Milk and the Oral Microbiome
The Breast Milk Microbiome Seeds a Lifetime of Good Health Every time we turn around, we learn that a new part of the body has its own microbiome. Indeed, human milk is not sterile, as was once thought. In fact, it is teeming with bacteria, currently believed to...
Cass Nelson-Dooley, MS, is a researcher, author, educator, and laboratory consultant. She studied medicinal plants in the rain forests of Panama as a Fulbright Scholar and then launched a career in science and natural medicine. Early on, she studied ethnobotany, ethnopharmacology, and drug discovery at the University of Georgia and AptoTec, Inc. She joined innovators at Metametrix Clinical Laboratory as a medical education consultant helping clinicians use integrative and functional laboratory results in clinical practice. She owns Health First Consulting, LLC, a medical communications company with the mission to improve human health using the written word. Ms. Nelson-Dooley is an oral microbiome expert and author of Heal Your Oral Microbiome. She was a contributing author in Laboratory Evaluations for Integrative and Functional Medicine and Case Studies in Integrative and Functional Medicine. She has published case studies, book chapters, and journal articles about the oral microbiome, natural medicine, nutrition, laboratory testing, obesity, and osteoporosis.
