Category: Metabolism
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What We’re Doing to Our Children’s Health — and What Southern Oregon Families Need to Know There is a war happening inside every human body — a vast, ancient negotiation between trillions of microorganisms and the human systems they inhabit. Your gut alone contains more microbial cells than your entire body contains human cells. These…
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Article 3 of 3 The results arrived on a Tuesday afternoon, in Kathleen’s patient portal, with no accompanying explanation. A column of numbers, reference ranges, flags for values outside those ranges, and the clinical equivalent of silence — no call from the office, no message from her doctor, just data sitting on a screen waiting…
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Article 2 of 3 About eighteen months into her decline, Kathleen did something that many patients do when the medical system stops providing answers: she started doing her own research. She wasn’t looking for fringe cures or internet conspiracy theories. She was looking for the thing her appointments had never given her — an explanation.…
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Article 1 of 3 Kathleen is 46 years old, lives outside Medford, and has a life that runs on competence. She manages a small business, raises two teenagers, and until about three years ago, never thought much about her health. She was the person who showed up. Who followed through. Who got things done. Then,…