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Optimizing Your Health for Truck Driving

by Jason Hooper | Mar 24, 2021 | Awareness and Advocacy

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, truck driving is the most common job in the United States. Truck drivers play an extremely important role in our supply chain, but driving for ten hours a day, and not having a kitchen can lead to some poor health outcomes...

Better Habits for Minimizing Your Risk of Having Heartburn

by John Brisson | Mar 12, 2021 | Digestive Health, Reflux

Many people frequently reach out to me and ask what can be done to relieve their heartburn. Gastroesophageal reflux disease is a condition in which mucosal damage is done to the esophagus from chronic stomach acid, pepsin, bile, or endotoxins trapped between the...

Does Frequent Meat Ingestion Cause Heart Disease? TMAO

by John Brisson | Jun 10, 2020 | Digestive Health

Alarmist research and media headlines pop up yearly to show that a diet rich in red meat consumption may increase your chances of developing or worsening heart disease from the endogenous production of TMAO by our microbiome. Every year we see a new headline pop up...

Glucophage (Metformin), Is It Harmful For Your Digestion? Do I Recommend It?

by John Brisson | Jan 23, 2020 | Digestive Health, Medications

Glucophage (metformin hydrochloride) is a much-hyped medication, even in alternative medicine. Metformin is a commonly prescribed medication for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Metformin is also used off-label to increase longevity supposedly and to help achieve...

Neomycin – Why Fix Your Gut Does Not Recommend Its Use for SIBO-C

by John Brisson | Jul 26, 2019 | Awareness and Advocacy, Medications, SIBO

Neomycin – Why Fix Your Gut Does Not Recommend Its Use for SIBO-C Big pharma is always finding new ways to resurrect older medications to treat diseases. Since so many of our current antibiotics are becoming microbial resistant, older medications despite their...