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Is your BREATH making you sick??? SIBO, not IBS just might be your problem!

IS your BREATH making you sick??

TIRED of feeling gassy, bloated? Suffering from abdominal pain, diarrhea, constipation, ugly poop??

You may have SIBO!!!

At Balanced Well - Being Healthcare we have a low threshold for testing for SIBO and treatment can be lifesaving.

What is it ?

SIBO stands for Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth. Relatively speaking, the bulk of our gut bacteria reside in the large intestine. Under certain circumstances, bacteria can begin to inhabit the...

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Breast Cancer and Modifiable Risk Factors

Obesity has a complicated relationship to breast cancer risk. Multiple studies have suggested that obesity is associated with both an increased risk of developing breast cancer and worse prognosis after onset. Components such as body mass index (BMI), weight, weight gain and waist to hip ratio have all been positively associated with higher risk of developing breast cancer in post-menopausal women. In most, but not all studies, an inverse relationship has been found between weight and breast can...

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Honoring National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

 

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In reality, everyday should be breast cancer awareness day due to the unfortunate reality that breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women.

What exactly is breast cancer? It is a disease in which cancer cells form in the tissues of the breast. Sometimes, the process of cell growth goes wrong and new cells form when the body doesn’t need them and old or damaged cells do not die as they should. These damaged cel...

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Introducing Pure Grace Skincare

Pure Grace Skincare

Introducing Pure Grace Skincare by Dr. Grace Alessi, now available at Balanced Well-Being Healthcare (online store coming soon).

Pure Grace Skincare is medically based (based on current medical science and studies that prove that certain ingredients, commonly referred to as “actives” – work.) The Pure Grace difference is that Pure Grace products contain NO harmful preservatives or ingredients.

Most “natural products” are derived from plants and oils, but the “actives” are...

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DANGERS OF CELL PHONE USE. Protect Yourself and Your Family!

While manufacturers of cell phone and similar devices would like us to believe that there are no negative impacts on our health from chronic cell phone use, recent studies and case reports are very convincing that this may not be the case .

In 2011 The World Health Organization and the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified the electromagnetic radiation from cell phones as possible carcinogenic to humans based on increased for a malignant brain tumor associated with use of...

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