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Welcome to the first health research and wellness news wrap-up of 2022, and the first one since Adrienne got back from maternity leave!  When we began the year, it seemed like Covid was mostly in the rearview mirror, but then Omicron swept through the country and turned everything upside down. So needless to say, there’s some Covid coverage in the mix in this wrap-up — but also tons of other important pieces of health research and articles about wellness.

Most of us think of histamines as being related to seasonal allergies — and they are! But they're also involved in a whole lot more, and even if you don't get traditional allergies, you could have histamine issues. Dr. Brooke Kalanick, a naturopath and expert on histamines, breaks it down for us.

Your genes are not your destiny. However, your genes are one of the primary factors that determine your health and risk factors for certain conditions. One particular gene that’s been getting a lot of press recently is MTHFR (methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase), with curiosity steadily rising as at-home genetic testing has boomed. But as with most things related to health, there are a lot of misconceptions about it.

“Look, here’s the bottom line: everything you do, you do better with sleep.” That’s one of the driving principles behind the work of Dr. Michael Breus, aka “The Sleep Doctor.” As a clinical psychologist, Diplomat of the American Board of Sleep Medicine, and Fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, Dr. Breus has spent his life researching the topic of sleep and helping countless people improve their health through better sleep.

We talk a lot about gut health over here at WellBe, and rightfully so! After all, it impacts every single aspect of your well-being, both mental and physical. But often, when we speak about gut health, we focus only on the bacteria in your gut. While the balance of good and bad gut bacteria is crucial to gut health, other microbes have an impact as well. One of those important microbes is candida, a form of yeast that supports various bodily functions in small amounts — but when there’s too much yeast in the body, things go haywire. Read on to learn about the signs of candida overgrowth, the best candida overgrowth treatment, the candida overgrowth diet, and more.

After she was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and prescribed a regimen of powerful drugs, Joy decided to take control of her health. Through lifestyle and diet choices, she found her path from bedridden to thriving.

When it comes to getting and staying well during cold and flu season, your top defense is with the food you eat. At our panel on Nov. 9, 2017, we talked to board-certified internist,  functional medicine doctor, and author of “The Happy Gut,” Dr. Vincent Pedre, health coach and author of “The Real Food Grocery Guide,” Maria Marlowe, and INDAY founder Basu Ratnam (they hosted!) about their best tips for eating for immunity.

After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) at 24, V Capaldi healed herself using diet and lifestyle changes alone. That’s right— no drugs, no doctors.

Carley Smith goes by “The Fairy Gutmother” moniker, but the Nutritional Therapy Practitioner isn’t just administering wisdom to make others’ (health) dreams a reality, the Grand Junction, CO woman used these methods herself to turn around her health.