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Your digestive system is a complicated system. It may seem simple. You eat, you absorb, you eliminate. However, there are many steps taken to complete this process and many chemicals are necessary for things to go smoothly.
You use enzymes, minerals, and even bacteria to digest foods. And when one of these elements is out of balance, or not working optimally, the whole system goes off the rails. One of the effects of an imbalance in your system can be a food sensitivity.
Food sensitivities can cause headaches, skin problems including acne, and of course digestive problems including gas, bloating, constipation and diarrhea. So how do you know if you have a food sensitivity and what the offending food might be? There are actually a few methods you can use. Continue reading
One of the most common questions about yoga is what age you need to be in order to do it. The truth is that people of all ages, from infants to the elderly, and all levels of fitness, including having arthritis, or being pregnant, can do yoga provide that they put safety first and don’t try to overdo things.
Yoga is a great way to keep fit because it uses your own body weight to tone and trim. It builds long, lean muscle, which boosts the metabolism, which in turn helps yoga practitioners lose weight.
Older people tend to steer clear of yoga due to the mistaken impression that you have to be as skinny as a rail and as flexible as a rubber band. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, if you are a senior, you owe it to yourself to start developing a yoga practice sooner rather than later. Continue reading
The issues of antibiotics and antibiotic-resistant bacteria have gotten a lot of attention lately. The concern is that bacteria, having been exposed to antibiotics for so long, have developed a resistance to the antibiotics, creating “superbugs.”
The grim reality is that bacterial infections that used to succumb easily to antibiotics have turned more serious, even deadly.
Interestingly, though, herbs with antibiotic properties seem to elude the bacterial “learning process” and thus do not appear to produce resistant bacteria.
Antibiotic herbs can be used around the home for minor infections and as antiseptics to prevent infection. Here are some of the more useful antibiotic herbs. Continue reading
