An autoimmune disease is a condition that occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys healthy body tissue. One or more organ or tissue types can be affected including blood vessels, red blood cells, joints, muscles, connective tissue, skin, and endocrine glands, such as the thyroid or pancreas. What causes the immune system to […]
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Anti-Yeast Therapy and Autism
The healthy gut contains both yeast and good bacteria, in balance with each other. Common “good” bacteria, also called beneficial bacteria, are lactobacillus acidophilus and bifidobacterium, And don’t panic if you see it on your test, but bacteria like e-coli exist in the normal gut. Bacteria share space in the intestinal tract with the yeast. There […]
Clean Start
Terry Walters’ first book, Clean Food: A Seasonal Guide to Eating Close to the Source with More Than 200 Recipes for a Healthy and Sustainable You, caused a sensation and fueled a nationwide movement about nourishment and clean food that’s been embraced all the way to the White House. Cooks, foodies, and anyone in search […]
Cheesy Vegan Quesadilla
In central and southern regions of Mexico, a quesadilla is a flat circle of cooked corn masa, called a tortilla, warmed to soften it enough to be folded in half, and then filled. They are typically filled with Oaxaca cheese. Oaxaca cheese is a stringy Mexican cheese made by the pasta filata (stretched-curd) method. Vegan […]