Long-term diabetes can lead to severe complications, including atherosclerosis, heart attacks, strokes, diabetic nephropathy, retinopathy, and neuropathy. It effectively ages your blood vessels by 15 years and can reduce life expectancy by 10 years. With the number of diagnoses constantly rising, it is clear that diabetes has become …
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Detox Is Not a Passing Fad
Modern life presents us with plenty of challenges. To remain in balance and ward off various illnesses, it is recommended that you ‘service’ your body a few times a year, helping it cleanse at a cellular level. This doesn’t mean neglecting your well-being for the rest of the year, or simply ‘gritting your teeth’ and …
Ayurvedic Weight Loss – Slimming
From an Ayurvedic perspective, the primary cause of obesity is a Kapha imbalance. This occurs when we consume excessive amounts of sweet, fatty, oily, and cold foods, which accelerate fat deposition in the body. Obesity is also a result of an imbalance between the digestive fire (Agni) and toxins (Ama). When this balance is disrupted, it leads to a malfunction in the metabolism of …
Food as Compensation – Emotional Overeating
The overwhelm and demanding pace of modern life, emotional distress, and relationship struggles—challenges that almost every person faces daily—must be released in some way for us to continue functioning. If we do not learn emotional self-regulation, how to express our needs, set boundaries, and find the wisdom of conscious choice that leads to the harmonization of body, mind, and soul, we will …
SIBO – Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth
SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth) has become a frequent diagnosis in connection with various digestive issues. Antibiotics generally offer only short-term relief because SIBO is fundamentally a chronic issue involving Streptococcus. For many, this bacteria appears as early as childhood …