Back to the marathon day… Had prepared my running gear and food the evening before, in the morning I made me a smoothie with celery, ginger, carrots and we drove to Duisburg. Was very excited,…
First of all, it was a wonderful day in Duisburg, not that hot and cold. This would be my first long distance run over 21 km. Last summer, approximately the same date I was bedridden,…
Gastrointestinal depression is that even a thing? Change or loss of mucosal tolerance causes an up or down regulation of key immune responses. These changes are related to problems with the gastrointestinal immune system. Proinflammatory chemicals are introduced…
Seasonings and Good Fats Photo by Joanna Kosinska After you follow a strict diet and eat the foods we talked about in part 5 for a few months the inflammation in your body should have improved and seasonings…
How is it possible that our gut gets into stress? Our gut can be under stress from infections or a loss of ecological balance for example as a side effect of using antibiotics. Our body…
The puppet master(s)? The gut-brain axis is the biochemical signaling taking place between the gastrointestinal tract and the nervous system. Most of the times the signaling comes from the intestinal microbiota, which has an important…
Heal your gut with these foods It’s important to heal our gut as fast as possible and the solution to that is to reduce gut damaging medication and consume foods that are easy on the…
Not trying is a failure If you tried something out and did not get the results you wanted, it’s definitely not a failure. You learned something new and can now try other things. For example,…
Here are some of the bad boys that cause inflammation. While any protein food “parts” can leak into the bloodstream and cause inflammation in the joints, there are some foods you should definitely avoid while beginning…