Fever: The Brain, Brown Fat and Liver Axis

Can you still be vitamin deficient even if you take supplements?

Fat Soluble Vitamin Sequestration in the Liver and Release by Brown Fat Activation This discussion about fat-soluble vitamins highlights a potential paradox of treatment that can only be remediated with proper dosing of a substance that’s very common in the lives of most people: alcohol. In chronically high doses, alcohol consumption is decidedly a poison. If you drink a lot of alcohol every day, the liver gets damaged, inflamed, and it develops fibrosis that’s diagnosed as either fatty liver disease or cirrhosis if the damage is especially serious. Fatty liver disease is the less serious form of early cirrhosis, but both are reversible with the proper treatment (not conventional medicine treatments which don’t acknowledge that either are reversible). Click here to schedule a h...

Infection Treatment at Home: Mitragyna speciosa and Cinchona officinalis

Kratom: Antimicrobial Effects During an infection, kratom can be incredibly useful. As a medicine that you would use to self-doctor at home, kratom can be administered at the first sign of infection to treat fever, body aches, and pain in both children and adults. It is a cough suppressant, so it can be a useful medicine during respiratory infections, but kratom also reduces intestinal motility so it can be used to treat diarrhea as well. But kratom doesn’t just suppress diarrhea and cough, it also treats underlying infection. This is one reason why there’s such a strong effort to create fear around the use of kratom and prevent the public from becoming aware of this incredible herb that has so much value in medicine. That being said, kratom has to be used intelligently. It should n...

How to Burn Fat More Easily: Brown Fat vs. White Fat Cells

Brown Fat to Burn Energy Human cells use fuel (e.g. sugars or ketones) to produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP). This process involves storing energy in the form of a proton gradient which is known as “proton motive force”. A proton is a stable, positively charged subatomic particle. Proton motive force is generated by moving protons from the mitochondrial matrix across the mitochondrial inner membrane to the mitochondrial intermembrane space. This process uses energy released by the electron transport chain. Electrons are negatively charged while protons are positively charged, ultimately working together to produce electricity and energy in the form of ATP. In humans, body heat is maintained by signaling to the mitochondria to allow protons to move back into the matrix (the p...

Herb That Helps People Lose Weight: Mitragyna speciosa

Kratom: Anti-Obesity / Weight Loss Effects Kratom is an amazing herb. It works holistically on the body to do many things all at the same time, but one effect that scientists have noticed is weight loss and metabolic profile enhancement. In one John's Hopkins survey, patients indicated that pain relief is the most common reason for using kratom with opioid withdrawal symptoms reduction as second in line. Weight loss is often a secondary effect that takes shape as the patient's blood sugar is regulated, pain is controlled, inflammation in the body is reduced, and the patient's mood is substantially improved. Kratom / Mitragyna speciosa is a blood sugar regulator that can be used as a part of natural healing protocol for diabetes, so it stands to reason that this herb could also be be...