Proton pump inhibitors were prescribed to decrease the risk and development of esophageal cancers. A nationwide study in Denmark of almost 10,000 patients newly diagnosed with Barrett's esophageal showed that no cancer-protective effects from the proton pump inhibitors were found. Long-term use of proton pump inhibitors was associated with a significantly increased risk of adenocarcinoma and high grade dysplasias. 

It's been years since the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in April 2010, but like the murky waters of the Mississippi, the effects of this disaster are still present today with a tremendous impact on human health.

We all followed the tortuous wake of the DeepWater Horizon spill that killed 11 and polluted the Gulf for 87 days.

 The World Cup wasn't won in a day.  It took hard work, team integrity, the right moments and a football field of great colonization to score the winning goal. Your most valuable player is your intestinal microbiome in the game of health. 

You can improve your health to your optimal level by manipulating your intestinal microbiome with probiotics.

Children should eat a pound of dirt. It's rich in humic acid. Humic acid is used clinically to rebalance the intestinal microbiome. It has extraordinary anti-viral properties. Instead of sanitizing our environment we need to expose our children to many microbes; after all we are mostly made of microbes. We need to get used to it and stop fighting nature. Forget the Lysol, Purell and bleach. These chemicals dismantle our innate immune system.

Is it Yeast overgrowth or something else?

Do you have yeast? That was a key question with a new patient who had gastrointestinal symptoms for years. According to her research on the internet, the answer would be yes, but guess what we found?

Feel like you can't leave home because of fecal incontinence? Many older people have urinary incontinence, but bowel leakage has a huge impact on the quality of your life. It's embarrassing to talk about anal leakage with your family, friends and even your doctor. Thanks to new data there is a great new old first-line treatment that is even better than a pharmaceutical drug. Here's the new scoop on poop.  

As a practitioner and human at large I love the intestinal microbiome.  I plan on balancing it, preserving the good, better and best bacteria and undoing the detrimental medical campaigns to eliminate life-supporting bacteria. Bacteria sustains our life force.

As an intestinal microbiome devotee and professional in the field, I am constantly spreading the word about the importance of microbial diversity in the gut.

A couple of years ago, data was presented at the International Liver Congress in London that highlights how important the gut microbiota is in preventing alcoholic liver disease.

The major cause of treatment failure for H. pylori infections is antibiotic resistance.

The microbes we are colonized with at birth determine our future health.