Compassionate Healthcare Associates provides a patient-centered healthcare model that combines how a person’s genetics, the environment he/she lives in, and their lifestyle can affect long-term health and the development of chronic disease. The patients learn how nutrition, environmental and psychological stressors, and other lifestyle factors can modify the biochemical and genetic makeup of an individual and ultimately change how that person will express health or disease.

Is Your Gut Talking to you – and - What is it Trying to Tell You?

Is Your Gut Talking to you – and – What is it Trying to Tell You?

We grew up thinking digestion is a straightforward process; we eat food – we digest it, and that’s about it. But have you ever eaten too quickly and felt like your stomach was about to burst? Or does drinking a glass of water give you heartburn or leave your stomach feeling bloated? Episodes of constipation, stomach cramps, or diarrhea are messages from your gut something is off balance.

Canola Oil

How it is made – Canola oil. There are several processing and chemical steps to making refined canola oil

Canola may refer to an edible and industrial oil (also known as canola oil) produced from the seed of any of several cultivars of rapeseed bred to be low in erucic acid from the Brassicaceae family of plants, or to the plants themselves, namely cultivars of Brassica napus L., Brassica rapa subsp. oleifera, syn. B. campestris L. or Brassica juncea.

Inflammation

Inflammation

It has been widely documented chronic inflammation that goes undetected for years is the underlying cause of many illnesses including diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and cancers such as colon cancer. It plays a role in diseases of the brain (Alzheimer’s & dementia), autoimmune diseases (rheumatoid arthritis), as well as other diseases which have unknown causes, like allergies, fibromyalgia, and migraines.