What Should You Avoid if You’re Lactose Intolerant?

What Should You Avoid if You’re Lactose Intolerant

Lactose is a sugar that is typically found in milk and milk products. Your small intestine- where most digestion and absorption of nutrients takes place- produces an enzyme that is called lactase. This lactase breaks the lactose down into two simpler forms of sugar: galactose and glucose. The body is better equipped to digest these … Read more

Curing Numbness in Feet and Toes

Curing Numbness in Feet and Toes

Numbness in your feet and toes can be very dangerous- you may injure yourself and never know it if you don’t check your feet daily. Numbness in feet and toes typically indicates that there is a problem with those nerves that communicate information from them to the brain. There are several things that can cause … Read more

10 Natural Treatments for Tendonitis

10 Natural Treatments for Tendonitis

Tendonitis, or tendinitis, is irritation and/or inflammation of a tendon, which is the thick, fibrous cord attaching your muscles to your bones. This condition results in pain and tenderness just outside of a joint. While it is true that tendonitis can occur in anywhere in your body that a tendon is located, it most commonly … Read more

How Doshas affect Ayurvedic treatment for osteoarthritis

How Doshas affect Ayurvedic treatment for osteoarthritis

If you, or someone you know, is suffering from osteoarthritis then you understand that this is a painful condition that can be chronic. Ayurvedic treatment for osteoarthritis holds great promise for many people. In fact, many of the recommendations from Western doctors for how to treat osteoarthritis are very similar to the Ayurvedic methods of … Read more

How Long Does it Take to Get a Chronic Pain Diagnosis?

How Long Does it Take to Get a Chronic Pain Diagnosis?

For obvious reasons, objectively measuring pain can be challenging for healthcare providers, which means that reaching a diagnosis of chronic pain can be quite challenging. This is because even when the underlying cause is the same, everyone experiences pain in different ways. Due to this fact, a diagnosis of chronic pain isn’t as simple as … Read more

Differences between Crohn’s Disease and Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Crohn’s Disease and Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Both Crohn’s disease and irritable bowel syndrome are ailments of the gastrointestinal tract. Many times, since the two share many of the same symptoms, they are confused as the same disease. However, there are some very important differences between the two. Definitions Crohn’s disease is a condition that is progressive and incurable. IBS is not … Read more