Space Coast Advanced Health - Treating The Root Cause

“Can I get all the nutrients I need from food?” a patient will occasionally ask. On the surface, this makes sense. After all, if you are eating a whole, fresh, unprocessed foods diet, shouldn’t you be able to get an abundant supply of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and other nutrients? Unfortunately, things aren’t that easy. Even with a perfect diet, the combination of many things –including our depleted soils, the storage and transportation of our food, genetic alterations of traditional heirloom species, and the increased stress and nutritional demands resulting from a toxic environment – make it impossible for us to get the vitamins and minerals we need solely from the foods we eat 1 . Simply put, the evidence shows we cannot get away from the need for nutritional supplements 2 . Doctors used to think you got all your vitamins and minerals from food. Any extra nutrients were excreted, or worse, became toxic. But the tide is shifting. Doctors now prescribe ...

Is This Undercover Antioxidant The Secret To All-Day Energy? Vitamins C and E get most antioxidant lip service, but not everyone knows about this  master antioxidant  that helps prevent numerous conditions including aging, cancer, heart disease, and dementia.  Yes, you can get it as a supplement, but there are more effective ways to build this rock-star antioxidant. It’s called glutathione (pronounced "gloota-thigh-own"): the mother of all antioxidants, the master detoxifier, and maestro of your immune system. Meet glutathione, your new favorite antioxidant. Glutathione is a very simple molecule produced naturally from three amino acids: cysteine, glycine, and glutamine. Its sulfur chemical groups provide glutathione’s benefits. Sulfur is a sticky, smelly molecule that acts like flypaper. All the bad things in your body stick onto it, including free radicals and toxins like mercury and other heavy metals. Your body can make its own glutathione. Unfortunat...

Autoimmune disease symptoms don’t always announce their arrival loudly. Many people slowly develop autoimmune conditions like  leaky gut syndrome  without even realizing anything is wrong. And the road to a diagnosis can be long and frustrating. In fact, it can take about five years to receive an official autoimmune diagnosis. The average person goes to  six to 10 doctors  before autoimmunity is recognized as the culprit, largely because the symptoms of these diseases are so disparate and vague. So how can you know if you’re suffering autoimmune disease symptoms, and what can you do about them? Let’s take a look. Common Autoimmune Disease Symptoms Some of the most common autoimmune disease symptoms you should look out for include: Headaches Anxiety Brain fog Attention deficit problems Body rashes, red bumps on facial skin and red flaking skin Acne Rosacea Eczema Psoriasis Dermatitis Allergies Asthma Dry mouth Frequent colds Thy...

When the thyroid is overactive, it can disrupt the functions in the body it normally helps. The gland aids cells and tissues responsible for energy, body temperature, and nerve signals to the brain. A thyroid that secretes too many hormones can cause a variety of health problems. An overactive thyroid, or hyperthyroidism, can lead to disorders and illness, including viral infections of the thyroid that inflame the tissue of the gland, which sits at the front of the neck, according to Hormone Health Network. Here are 10 symptoms of a possible overactive thyroid: 1. Irritability and anxiety are feelings that might appear when the thyroid gland is making an excess amount of hormones. This can throw the metabolism out of whack as the cells and tissues receive an overload, which can make a person become hyper. 2. Heart palpitations may be the result of too much thyroid hormone in the body. The body’s system gets flooded with hormones, so the heart could beat hard or quickly, skip a beat ...

The most common disease in America is something you probably never heard of, but it affects 90 million Americans and is a major risk factor for diabetes, heart attacks, and even cancer. It is called NALFD (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease) or fatty liver, for short, and is caused by the 152 pounds of sugar and 146 pounds of flour in our diet. How do you know if you have it? What’s causing it? And how do you fix it? Do you exercise, take drugs, change your diet, or take supplements to fix it? Many of you are probably wondering, “What is a fatty liver?” Some of you may have heard of foie gras. Foie gras is the French term for fatty liver that is used to describe a delicacy made from duck or goose liver. What happens to the livers of these animals as a result of the controversial practice of overfeeding is what you could be doing to your own liver, unknowingly. For those people who have this disease, essentially what they have is a liver that is full of fat, and that is a majo...