by Dr. Alex Jimenez | Mar 1, 2018 | Clinical Success Story, Gastro Intestinal Health, Sciatica
Constipation & Sciatica: Constipation is an uncomfortable and common side effect of lower back and leg pain conditions. Sciatic nerve pain can occur at the same time as constipation does, but can also alternate where constipation ensues followed by sciatica....
by Dr. Alex Jimenez | Jan 22, 2018 | Functional Medicine, Gastro Intestinal Health
Irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS, is a prevalent condition characterized by abdominal pain or discomfort, bloating, connected to altered stool form (such as diarrhea and constipation) as well as passage. Approximately 4 percent to 30 percent of individuals world-wide...
by Dr. Alex Jimenez | Jan 19, 2018 | Functional Medicine, Gastro Intestinal Health, Nutrition and Wellness
Dietary fat has several essential functions in the human body. First, it functions as a supply of energy and structural components for the cells and second, it functions as a regulator of gene expression, which influences lipid, carbohydrate, and protein metabolism,...
by Dr. Alex Jimenez | Jan 18, 2018 | Functional Medicine, Gastro Intestinal Health, Gut Health, Nutrition and Wellness
Inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, is a term used to describe inflammation of the gastrointestinal mucosa of unknown etiology. There are a selection of hypotheses associated to the development and perpetuation of IBD. Three main theories emerge from the literature....
by Dr. Alex Jimenez | Jan 17, 2018 | Functional Medicine, Gastro Intestinal Health, Nutrition and Wellness
Inflammatory bowel disease is an umbrella term used to describe a group of gastrointestinal diseases characterized by chronic, ongoing inflammation of all or part of the gastrointestinal tract, or GI tract, such as Crohn’s disease, or CD, and ulcerative colitis,...
by Dr. Alex Jimenez | Jan 16, 2018 | Autoimmune Disease & Immunity, Functional Medicine, Gastro Intestinal Health
It has currently been accepted that the interaction between environmental factors, and that of certain genes, can influence the destructive immune response characterized in many autoimmune diseases. As a matter of fact, approximately less than 10 percent of those...
