Psoriasis is not simply a chronic skin disorder. It is an autoimmune disease, meaning your immune system can harm your body instead of protecting it as it should. However, as strange as it may sound, psoriasis is more common than you'd think. Nearly 7.4 million people in the United States have this condition. This condition …
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German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach once said: “We are what we eat”, a quote that many years later would still be in the mouths of thousands of healthcare practitioners and health enthusiasts. And it is a good claim. We truly are what we eat. And while a big part of what determines our health falls upon …
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Hippocrates, the father of medicine, once made a bold statement: “All disease begins in the gut”. And you know what? Perhaps Hippocrates' claim was a bit extreme, but it turns out he was not very misguided either. Countless studies have shown that our microbiome (our friendly bacteria colonies) plays a massive role in preventing diseases, …
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