Category Archives: Prebiotic/ProbioticFormula

It’s a Lie – You Are What You…

          by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath I’d like to expose a lie that you’ve heard probably a thousand times, if not once, and that is simply the phrase, “You are what you eat.” You see, that’s just simply not true. You are actually what you absorb and you assimilate. You see, […]

You Might Not Know You’re Constipated

by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath Based on statistics from an article from Dr. Mercola “Constipation is more than an aggravating condition; this silent epidemic has led to more than 6 million doctors’ visits and 700,000 emergency room visits, and costs billions of dollars in direct and indirect health care costs.” And you would think that […]

everybody is wondering about food sensitivity

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by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath I hear it all the time, everybody is wondering about food sensitivity. But what is everybody wondering about! To me the biggest question I hear all the time is “why do I have such an issue with food sensitivity?” Food sensitivity is actually a new concept that is always evolving. […]

Thyroid, Inflammation and Weight Gain

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by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath Weight gain is the biggest challenge facing our culture today and there is an infinite amount of information out there on this subject. So why do we understand the problem, have virtually unlimited information to review, yet this still remains such an issue? This is most often because we are […]

Overcome the Thanksgiving Hangover

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by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath Thanksgiving is often a very enjoyable time of the year. Good friends, family, good food, some holiday spirits and some yummy pies (hopefully gluten free as we enjoyed at our home.) Very often there are parties on Friday for many families but there’s so much more. The Black Friday shopping, […]

The Thanksgiving Snooze, it’s NOT the Turkey

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by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath I know, we hear it all the time, it’s the tryptophan in the turkey that has you looking for a nap on the couch after your Thanksgiving meal. When we look at how we most often assume truth, we are told something, we experience this as explained, so it must […]

Holiday Season = Fatigue, Stress & Weight Gain?

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by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath The holidays are just around the corner and I bet the last thing you are considering right now is how the holiday season will effect your adrenal function, leading to health challenges and symptoms. What you may be thinking about though is how often you find yourself fatigued, stress out […]

You Are NOT What You Eat!

Happy-Digestion

by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath We’ve all heard it so many times in our life, “you are what you eat.” While this is a popular saying, it truly is not a realistic point. Understand that you are not what you eat, you are what you absorb and assimilate. I cannot tell you how many times […]

Feel Young Again

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by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath Last week we proposed the question, is anti-aging possible and this is an absolute yes. We discussed the importance of optimal brain health, provided a free assessment to help establish your personal level of brain health and reviewed three factors to directly assist in improving brain health. If you missed […]

SIBO and Constipation

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By Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath Last week we discussed the possibility of SIBO or small intestinal bacteria overgrowth in regard to long term chronic gut challenges with a lack of healing success. In case you missed it, here is last week’s article. Many people actually took the necessary step in purchasing the SIBO breath test, […]