Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) are considered essential because our body cannot synthesize them. The two most common long-chain omega-3 acids are called...
Mercury is a metal that used to be used in common fixes. However, over the years we are seeing that this metal is causing detrimental effects on our bodies. Mercury...
Functional Medicine, Gut and Intestinal Health, Health, Metabolic Syndrome, Probiotics
Polyphenolic Modulation of Gut Microbiome and Cardiometabolic Disease
Insulin resistance is a problem that is strongly associated with obesity due to excess body fat and diabetes. However, growing evidence suggests that gut microbiota (GM)...
Detoxification, Diets, Health, Metabolic Syndrome, Nutrition and Wellness, Oxidative Stress
Sulforaphane’s Protection against CVD
Oxidative stress is a critical factor in cardiometabolic conditions. As previously demonstrated by the PREDIMED study, high-risk CVD patients have low antioxidant...
Health, Mediterranean Diet, Metabolic Syndrome, Oxidative Stress
Dietary patterns and cardiometabolic disease
Patients’ dietary patterns are important triggers or modulators when it comes to cardiometabolic disease risk assessment. It has been stated that cardiovascular...
If we take a look at breast cancer, there are common roads that everything links back to. Those roads are an increase in estrogen or activation of the estrogen receptor...
Conditions Treated, Diets, Functional Medicine, Metabolic Syndrome
Dyslipidemia: The Proactive Therapy
The “pill for every ill†therapeutic approach is not enough to ensure its health improvement. In fact, ACC/AHA clinical guidelines are more interested in the risk...
Functional Medicine, Heart Health, Mediterranean Diet, Metabolic Syndrome
Dyslipidemia: What You Need to Know
We have talked about the comorbidities of high visceral fat and insulin resistance; well, dyslipidemia is one of them. What you need to know about dyslipidemia is that...
Functional Medicine, Metabolic Syndrome, Screening Tests
The Functional Medicine Approach: Metabolic Syndrome
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of signs and symptoms that are found in many patients. The standard of care determines that MetS diagnose should consider having...
The link between inflammation and many diseases was made less than 15 years ago. With that being said, there is still so much we are constantly finding out about the...
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