This is Stephanie Kissel, Business Development Coordinator reporting live from Boston during Hurricane Irene for Metametrix Clinical Laboratory. Ok, so Hurricane Irene has come and gone, our Applying Laboratory Evaluations (ALE) seminar was not dramatically affected, and if you haven’t guessed, I’m not actually a reporter.... [More]

Foods naturally rich in collagen include pig’s feet, shark fins, and chicken skin. A few years ago, it was all the rage in Japan for women to eat collagen rich foods in the hopes that it may boost their own collagen production and make them look younger. These are not foods that I would personally eat – and not just because of the taste… [More]

Let’s face it, people do not imagine anything attractive when they think of parasites. A wiggly protozoan or worm inside our own GI tract? The knee-jerk reaction is “Gross! Kill it…NOW!” There is good reasoning behind this opinion. Parasites, by definition, live at the expense of their host and can wreak havoc to many body systems... [More]

H. pylori has been found to play a role in chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer, mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma, and gastric carcinoma. It is estimated that 50% of the world’s population is infected with H. pylori and 30% of North Americans with dyspepsia are infected... [More]

The integration of natural medicine and treatments is becoming more common in the U.S., because parents realize there may be more than just conventional treatments available... [More]

Think about it, our gut is on the clock 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It’s charged with the important task of constantly sampling our internal milieu and ensuring our health while maintaining an inventory of all the food, beverages, medications, and environmental... [More]