What is Food Intolerance? Food intolerance is an unpleasant physical reaction of your body after eating certain foods. This is associated with the immune system, which is the body’s defence mechanism against foreign intruders, like pathogenic bacteria. When we have a food intolerance, then that food product is treated as an intruder and the immune … Continue reading
Vitamin D was originally recognized as a fat soluble vitamin needed in small amounts for the metabolism of calcium and phosphate. It is found in significant amounts in oily fish and in small amounts in other ingredients of the Western diet, such as egg yolks, cheese, butter, orange juice and mushrooms. Vitamin D is also … Continue reading
Gluten-Sensitive Enteropathy or Celiac Disease (CD) is a lifelong disease in which the immune system causes damage to the small intestine after the ingestion of wheat gluten and related proteins of rye and barley. It can occur at any age and affects 1-3% of the population in Europe. Multiple genes have been associated … Continue reading