by Markham Integrative | Sep 18, 2018 | Blog, Nutrition, Prenatal Care
What to Keep In Mind When Choosing a Prenatal Vitamin You may have heard that it is important to start supplementing with folic acid for at least 3 months prior to conception to reduce the risk of neural tube defect. That is a good start, but in order to optimize your...
by Dr. John Gannage | Aug 30, 2018 | Autism, Blog, Nutrition, Prenatal Care
Omega-3 Fatty Acids for Children’s Mental Health A number of studies have found lower levels of omega 3 fatty acids in kids with autism and ADHD. What Are Omega 3s? Omega 3s are a category of essential fatty acids, called “essential” because our bodies cannot...
by Markham Integrative | Jun 21, 2018 | Blog, Nutrition, Prenatal Care
Preconception Care and Planning You and your partner have decided that you are ready to have a baby. Congratulations! You are both so excited and just can’t wait to plant the seed. However, what you may not realize is that nourishing the soil, or the home of that...
by Markham Integrative | May 23, 2018 | Blog, General Wellness, Heart Health, Integrative Medicine, Nutrition
Vitamin K2 and Your Heart Vitamin K2 can be thought of as the master of calcium’s fate, activating the proteins that regulate where calcium goes, directing it to the bones where it can do good, and keeping it from being deposited in the arteries where it causes...
by Markham Integrative | May 23, 2018 | Blog, Histamine, Integrative Medicine, Nutrition
When Should You Try a Low FODMAP Diet for Histamine Intolerance? Read on to learn more about the low FODMAP diet for histamine intolerance. For a more detailed overview of histamine intolerance, click here. For an overview of the low FODMAP diet, click here. What is...
by Markham Integrative | Feb 28, 2018 | Blog, Detoxification, General Wellness, Nutrition
How Sugar Fuels Oxidative Stress Learn more about the connection between sugar and oxidative stress. What is oxidative stress? Oxidation, which occurs during a number of natural processes within the body including detoxification and immune response, produces unstable...
by Markham Integrative | Jan 15, 2018 | Blog, Gut Health, Nutrition, SIBO
Treating SIBO: What is the Low FODMAP Diet? For a primer on SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth), start here. Modifying the diet is one of the most critical components of effective SIBO treatment, and there is a simple reason for it: bacteria are living...
by Dr. John Gannage | Jan 2, 2018 | Blog, Detoxification, General Wellness, Integrative Medicine, Nutrition
How to Slay The Yeast Beast by Emily Kennedy, MSc RHN In my experience as a clinical nutritionist, overgrowth of candida albicans has got to be one of the most common, most annoying and most tedious conditions to deal with. Why is it so hard to get rid of this...
by Dr. John Gannage | Jul 21, 2017 | Blog, General Wellness, Nutrition
Building your healthy diet is not unlike constructing a house, and if the existing structure is mold infested, leaning over and feasted upon by termites, then your best approach is to tear it down and start from the foundation. A Standard American Diet (SAD) is in the...