What happens when we eat? (if there’s a hidden parasite) By Berkson

You go to a salad bar. Everything looks so colorful, crispy, and tasty. You don’t know it and can’t see it, but there may be some fungus lurking or even a parasite right inside that healthy-looking lettuce or shredded carrots or in that pile of garbanzo beans. It may have come from the hands of a food handler back in the kitchen who wasn’t wearing gloves. They may not know they are contaminated. Or they may not have washed their hands adequately. Or it may have come in from the water the veggies were washed with. You swallow, and these pathogens [...]

Keeping your brain shape healthy is now a major goal of anti-aging and total wellness in general. Yet many drugs that we consider common, safe, and are widely prescribed, are being shown, by irrefutable brain imaging studies, to decrease brain volume and hamper normal brain metabolism in shockingly short periods of time of regularly taking these medications. The drugs that have this shadow side include many over-the-counter allergy, sleep, incontinence and anxiety medications. You need to know the risk versus benefits of any drugs you are taking. If you must take them, work with a medical nutritionist or functional practitioner who [...]