Did You Know The Holiday Season is Also Heart Attack Season?

The holidays… family, friends, good food, good drink, gatherings, and the list goes on.  While it’s a time to connect and reflect, the holidays are also a time filled with stress over guests, gifts and lack of time.

Stress isn’t the only factor to affect your health.  Add in all the feasting and drinking as we happily pile our plates, and arteries, with those tasty high fat, high calorie, high cholesterol and super high sugar foods and you have a time where heart attacks actually peak.  That’s right, Christmas and New Year’s Day are two of the highest heart attack occurrences of the year.

There are a lot of us who suffer silently with abdominal pain, bloating, gas, diarrhea, constipation or both.  Who wants to talk about THAT stuff?  Not me!  But I have to.  I’ve dealt with this every day just thinking it was what I ate or didn’t eat.  Or if is had dairy or gluten or something else my body no longer could process.

WHAT THE HECK IS SIBO?

I’m sure these days you may have heard people mention SIBO.  No, it’s not some robot or mechanical part.  And it can’t be found in a theatre near you.  It’s actually found in you and SIBO stands for Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth.  Sounds delightful doesn’t it?  Not at all!