“I get a little help from my friends”. Where would we be without the help of others? When you are looking for information to guide your decisions about your health, how do you know who to trust? There is a lot of information out there on the internet, and not all of it is sound…
Month: June 2022
Loving your microbiome – it matters!
I see lots talk these days about loving yourself. One part of our selves that often gets neglected is your microbiome. What is your microbiome? Your microbiome is the collection of all of the microbes, such as bacteria, fungi, viruses that naturally live on our bodies and inside of us. In our gut alone, we…
Your microbiome buddies – the benefits of taking probiotics
I’ve always said that everything is connected, and that couldn’t be more true when considering probiotics. Think of it – throughout the environment there are symbiotic relationships where different organisms co-exist to each other’s benefits. We ourselves are teeming with bacteria, in and outside of us, and for the most part, we get along just…
Let’s talk poop; fecal microbiota transplants
I was rockhounding in the high desert of Eastern Oregon when I go the call: get your husband tested. I was on my third long taper of vancomycin and it wasn’t working; c diff showed no signs of abating. I felt constantly miserable. My surgeons were worried about my continued recurrences of infection and were…