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Food Poisoning and its Impact on Gut Health

Dr. Alexandra Shustina February 13, 2025
Food poisoning is an awful and normally incapacitating sickness. This typically results from ingestion of contaminated food and water. For most people a complete recovery is made within a couple…
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Healing Autoimmune Disease through Gut Health

Dr. Alexandra Shustina November 14, 2024
Over the past several years, the relationship between gut health and autoimmune disease has received a great deal of attention from both scientific and health professionals.  The studies have revealed that the health of our gut, especially the population of the bugs in the…
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Solving 5 Common Digestive Issues in Women

Dr. Alexandra Shustina August 20, 2024
What is Gut Health? Gut health is central to complete health and wellbeing. It incorporates the actual functioning of the digestive system, its motility (movement), ability to effectively absorb nutrients,…
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Tasty Foods To Heal Your Gut

Dr. Alexandra Shustina February 27, 2023
By Dr. Alexandra Shustina, DO In today’s times, food for many people has become the root of many diseases. The Standard American Diet (SAD) is inflammatory, nutritionally poor, and toxic.…
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Visceral Manipulation

Dr. Alexandra Shustina June 2, 2019
By Dr. Alexandra Shustina, DO Visceral manipulation (VM) is a type of Osteopthic Manipulative Therapy (OMT) targeting the internal organs of the body.  It is a gentle manual therapy to…
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Taming the Irritable Bowel

Dr. Alexandra Shustina April 25, 2019
The root cause of IBS By Dr. Alexandra Shustina, DO Irritable bowel syndrome or IBS is somewhat of a mystery in western medicine. Many have gone to doctors with symptoms…
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The Gut Microbiome

Dr. Alexandra Shustina April 18, 2019
Are we more human or bacteria? By Dr. Alexandra Shustina DO The microbiome is the population of organisms (bacteria, viruses, and fungi) which live inside and outside of our bodies.…
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Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

Dr. Alexandra Shustina April 18, 2019
An integrative approach to Inflammatory Bowel Disease By Dr. Alexandra Shustina, DO Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis are both chronic, inflammatory, autoimmune disorders They can present with diarrhea, constipation, abdominal pain,…
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All Disease Begins in the Gut

Dr. Alexandra Shustina April 3, 2019
By Dr. Alexandra Shustina, DO “All disease begins in the gut” is a famous quote from Hippocrates, the father of western medicine.  Heartburn, belly pain, and a change in bowel…
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