What is Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) and what does it do? Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is a fat soluble compound synthesized in the body. It is commonly referred to as ubiquinone because it is found in almost every cell in all living organisms, making it ubiquitous in nature. CoQ10 is found in the...
Looking for a great phosphatidylcholine product? Seeking Health has the best. Check it out here! What is choline? Choline is a water-soluble nutrient that is technically neither a vitamin or a mineral. However, it is open lumped together with the B-vitamin family of nutrients due to its role in...
Probiotics are the “good” bacteria or microorganisms that live in and on our bodies. We actually have more bacteria living in us than we do cells! Probiotics live in our digestive tract and perform a number of functions like helping us digest food and communicating with our immune system to...
Most pregnant women experience some degree of heartburn during their pregnancy, often towards the end when that sweet little baby is making its presence known! For some, it's a mild inconvenience after a large meal, for others it's more bothersome making sleeping and eating an unpleasant chore. Why am I getting...
I’ve helped many women become pregnant after they’ve “failed” several rounds of in vitro fertilization (IVF). It didn’t take any fancy equipment, painful procedures, or expensive medications. It just took looking at these women like they were more than ovaries and uteruses. Many of these women had undiagnosed hypothyroidism. Once we...
I see many pregnant women in my practice, and I love working with moms and dads to-be as they are so inspired to live and eat well. But, inevitably, they’ll come to an appointment upset because they’ve been told (or fear) that they’ve “gained too much weight”. Just recently, a...
// // Pregnant and experiencing a change in bowel habits? Just another one of the many wonderful “woes” of pregnancy! Constipation is a frequent complaint amongst pregnant women, even for those who don’t typically experience it! You can thank progesterone for that as it tends to slow everything down a bit! Laxatives...
// // Pregnancy. That time in a woman's life when she feels her body is not her own, and often feels like her food cravings are being driven by something other than her taste buds! We've all heard stories of late night trips to the grocery store, or impromptu...
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Most folks have heard by now that women need folate / folic acid, one of the B vitamins, to grow healthy babies. Women who do not consume adequate folate run a much greater risk of having a baby with a neural tube defect (NTD). The neural...
An article was recently published in “Science Translational Medicine” entitled “The Placenta Harbors a Unique Microbiome”. The researchers collected placentas from 320 subjects and analyzed DNA to accurately identify which strains of microbial life were present. There's bacteria in the placenta? In the past, placentas and the intrauterine birth environment were thought...
This is a guest post from Dr. Erika's husband, Jason Krumbeck, DPT. Jason is a physical therapist in Missoula who specializes in orthopedic rehabilitation. Thanks to his wife he also knows a thing or two about back pain in pregnancy...