Anthropometric Assessment Anthropometric measurement plays a principal role in the patient’s health assessment. Anthropometric measures are an...
Tag - inflammation
Functional Medicine, Integrative Medicine, Metabolic Syndrome
Phase Angle and its Association with Inflammatory Markers
All disease starts in the gut, but how? Intestinal permeability is a great contributor to metabolic and chronic conditions, as it allows bacterial...
Gut and Intestinal Health, Nutrition and Wellness, Oxidative Stress
Western diet: Immune activation, Metainflammation and Chronic Diseases
The overweight and obesity epidemic has taken over the world, promoting the prevalence of chronic diseases. The common denominator of this problem is...
The nucleotide-binding domain and leucine-rich repeat related (NLR) family, pyrin domain containing 3 (NLRP3) is a multimeric protein that recognizes...
Inflammation is a necessary response, and it can initiate host defense response and repair damaged tissue. However, an uncontrolled inflammatory...
Gastro Intestinal Health, Gut and Intestinal Health, Leaky Gut
Tight Junctions: Defective Intestinal Barrier and Pathological Conditions
Our main interaction with food, pathogens, and inflammatory signals is made through our intestinal barrier. Indeed, our gut epithelium is where the...
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...
Fibromyalgia, Functional Medicine Series, Health, Nutrition and Wellness
Mitochondrial Dysfunction: The Link Between Migraines & Fibromyalgia
Migraines and Fibromyalgia have one thing in common, they are both due to mitochondrial dysfunction. More often than not we see those with...
PODCAST: Dr. Alex Jimenez, a chiropractor in El Paso, TX, Kenna Vaughn, and Astrid Ornelas discuss a variety of natural treatment methods and...