Immune & Environmental Health
Dive into expert articles, insightful blogs, and the latest
research to empower your health journey.
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Top 5 Tips for Preventing Cancer
Screening for cancer is not the same thing as preventing cancer. Many of us go for our annual mammograms and colonoscopies, thinking that we are being proactive and preventing cancer. Although these screening exams and tests can be helpful for early detection, a healthy lifestyle is way more important for true prevention. The American Institute…
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I Did Everything Right…But I Still Got Cancer
When I was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 30, this is exactly how I felt. My undergraduate and graduate degrees were in nutrition and exercise physiology and I practiced what I preached. I was careful with my diet and exercised regularly. My weight was in the normal range and I ate many…
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Your Beautiful Lawn May Be Harming Your Health
Is Your Perfect Lawn Making You Sick? As a breast cancer survivor, I know firsthand how devastating the diagnosis of cancer is. So when I pass by signs warning to “Keep off Lawn for 24 Hours” because of the application of pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers, I get upset. At the age of 30, I was…
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5 Steps to Get Off Your Asthma Inhaler
According to the Centers for Disease Control, about 1 in every 12 people has asthma, and the numbers are increasing every year. Asthma is a condition in which a person’s airway swells and becomes inflamed, resulting in difficulty breathing, shortness of breath and coughing. There are many reasons that this condition is increasing in people,…
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Top 5 Food Picks to Support Liver Detoxification
By The UWC Nutrition Team Foods are your most powerful tool to protect and support the liver. There are 2 major phases of detoxification in the liver. In order to have effective detoxification, you want to eat foods that contain compounds that support both phases. Below is a list of some of the best, but…
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Lesson 1: Environmental Inputs
IN THE INTRODUCTION, I explained how our current model of medicine ignores the real causes of disease. Now we’ll examine the first of 7 keys to UltraWellness. Our thinking about how we get sick is completely wrong. You can’t “catch” disease. You can’t “get” cancer or heart disease, diabetes or dementia. This may have seemed….
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Lesson 5: Detoxification
IN THE LAST LESSON you learned why the digestive system is so important to creating UltraWellness. The next step is learning how to optimize your detoxification system. The role of toxins and detoxification in health has been largely ignored by medicine. But thankfully scientists and practitioners are starting to recognize its importance in health. But how…
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How Toxins Make You Fat: 4 Steps to Get Rid of Toxic Weight
Scientists recently uncovered a surprising and disturbing fact: environmental toxins make you fat and cause diabetes(1). Inside the body, these chemicals monkey with our ability to balance blood sugar and metabolize cholesterol. Over time, the changes can lead to insulin resistance. This discovery should be headline news but no one is talking about it. Why?…