Ditching Dairy

Dairy, especially cheese, is addictive. That’s why it’s so difficult to stop eating it. Why? The primary protein in dairy, casein, breaks down into casomorphins. If that sounds like queso morphines, good, because that’s what it is. The morphine-like addictive substances in milk keeps infants blissfully sucking on their mothers’ nipples until they grow big enough to move […]

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Fighting Chronic Inflammation

Inflammation is your body’s natural response to injury: it’s an attempt to stop the damage and start the healing process. When you get a cut or other injury, you can see inflammation in action. When an injury happens, your body releases chemicals and white blood cells into your bloodstream, ready to attack and kill invading bacteria, viruses, […]