Dr. Lauren Deville

07/11/2025

This week's blog post: Palmitoylethanolamide (PEA) Benefits: Natural Immune Modulator for Inflammation

Image by Daniel Reche from Pixabay What is PEA and How Does Your Body Make It? I wrote here on PEA (palmitoylethanolamide—say that three times fast) for neuropathic pain. But it’s actually a great potential immune modulator, much like Low Dose Naltrexone—in fact, that’s its job in our bodies...

07/04/2025

This week's blog post: Fermented Vegetables vs Store Bought Pickles: Health Benefits and Microbiome Impact

Image by Benjamin Balazs from Pixabay Fermented Vegetables vs Store-Bought Pickles: Which is Better for Your Gut Health? More research comes out daily about how important your microbiome is to your overall health. Commercially, these days many of us maintain our good flora with probiotic supplements...

06/27/2025

This week's blog post: Leucine for Weight Loss

Image by Engin Akyurt from Pixabay Why Traditional Weight Loss Methods Fail As We Age We all know the basics of how to lose weight: eat a basic healthy diet, exercise regularly, get plenty of sleep, manage your stress so your cortisol isn’t chronically elevated. Metabolic Disruption When this

06/20/2025

This week's blog post: Natural Mitochondrial Support: 8 Evidence-Based Interventions for Optimal Cellular Energy

Image by Jo Luijten from Pixabay Studies increasingly suggest that poor metabolic health is implicated in nearly ever chronic disease—and metabolism starts with the mitochondria. While it’s important to start with the basics (things like removing toxicity from your environment and making sure yo...

06/13/2025

This week's blog post: Ferroptosis: Iron-Induced Cell Death in Chronic Disease

Ferroptosis is a relatively newly discovered method of cell death that occurs due to iron accumulation, in conjunction with antioxidant depletion. It turns out that ferroptosis is implicated as part of the pathogenesis of a number of common chronic diseases. What Is Ferroptosis: Iron-Induced Cell De...

06/06/2025

This week's blog post: Beyond NSAIDs: Natural Inflammation Resolution with SPMs

Image by darialapczynska from Pixabay It’s a common misconception that inflammation is the root cause of a wide variety of chronic illnesses. It isn’t the root, though unchecked inflammation can certainly perpetuate a problem initiated by something else. However, we’re learning now that resolu...

05/30/2025

This week's blog post: Clostridia Overgrowth and Autism

Image by Andrea Don from Pixabay The causes of autism are hotly debated, ranging from heavy metal toxicity to oxidative stress to methylation defects to gluten and dairy metabolites secondary to leaky gut syndrome, and more. It’s pretty clear that while there may be tipping point events, there’s

05/22/2025

This week's blog post: Back Pain: Structural or Not? https://www.naturecurefamilyhealth.com/back-pain-structural-or-not/

05/16/2025

This week's blog post: Food Additives that Can Cause Leaky Gut

Image by Erich Westendarp from Pixabay Increased intestinal permeability, or “leaky gut” syndrome, is symptomatically characterized by digestive disturbances such as gas, bloating, and variable stools, numerous and persistent food intolerances, and recurrent dysbiosis such as SIBO, yeast overgro...

05/10/2025

This week's blog post: Health Benefits of Lactoferrin

Image by Gábor Adonyi from Pixabay Lactoferrin is an iron binding protein found in whey and especially colostrum, in human breast milk and in cow’s milk. It acts as an iron modulator, helping to lower excessively high iron levels, or raise low iron levels of anemia even without actual iron

05/02/2025

This week's blog post: Bergamot for Metabolic Syndrome

Image by วรพจน์ พนาปวุฒิกุล from Pixabay Metabolic Syndrome is characterized by several related signs and symptoms, including elevated glucose, insulin, cholesterol levels, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and weight gain. While conventional medicine focuses on...

04/25/2025

This week's blog post: Health Benefits of Genistein

Image by Jing from Pixabay Genistein is a flavonoid extract of legumes, especially soy, and it acts as a phytoestrogen. Many of its unique health effects involve this property. As with nearly every bioactive compound extracted from foods or medicinal herbs, it is also antioxidant, anti-inflammatory,...