In part 1, I gave you an idea about how Candida works. In this part, I will focus more on how to make smart and targeted food & supplement choices to help you deal with a Candida overgrowth.  If you didn’t read the previous part, I do recommend you do this first! How do antifungals against Candida work? Antifungal medications, supplements or foods can intervene in several mechanisms, for example Mechanism 1:Some antifungals make it hard to transform Canida Albicans from the ‘innocent’ one-cell yeast form to the invasive Hyphae form. Mechanism...

How do you recognize an imbalance in your female sex hormones? And what do people mean by ‘estrogen dominance‘? This ‘tip’ explains it all! If in the future we refer to estrogen dominance (and we will!) this is what we’re talking about! Common Signs & Symptoms of Estrogen Dominance This list below is not a complete list, but it’s a list of common signs & symptoms. If you experience just one… just ONE symptom of this list below, you might have an imbalance in your female hormones: Pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS) Heavy...

Last week I wrote about estrogen dominance and the basics of how the female cycle works. If you missed this, just click here. Today I want to focus on progesterone. As I discussed there, in the luteal phase of cycling women, progesterone usually rises high. But what does progesterone do again? It helps to prepare a good environment for the implementation by a fertilized egg. It has a calming effect on women. Regulates Blood pressure. Supports bone health. Supports cognition If for some reason progesterone doesn’t rise high enough, symptoms of estrogen dominance...

Can you influence the breakdown of estrogen? Yes,you can! In this follow-up tip on estrogen dominance, I will discuss how your liver breaks down estrogen. Just remember: not all estrogen dominance is caused by high estrogen! These tips will only help you when dealing with high levels of estrogen and detoxification is a problem. How do you know if these are a problem? You will have to test. The DUTCH test can provide you insight into the levels of your estrogen and how you break them down. The test is easy to do: you just pee on a piece of paper for science! Let’s first...

So much talk about estrogen lately! We discussed: Ovulation basics (Part 1 – click here) How to recognize estrogen dominance symptoms (Also Part 1 – click here)  What causes low progesterone (Part 2 – click here) and How to help the liver break down estrogen! (Part 3 – click here) … but we weren’t quite done with the last topic! You see, the liver breaks down estrogen in 2 phases. In part 3 we talked about the first phase. In this part, I will give you tips on how to help with the second phase! If you missed the first part,...

Hey B Better Family, Are you considering changing your pots and pans to non-toxic versions? And the internet has given you so many choices? This article will guide you! Here you can find guidance on: What materials to avoid. What non-toxic options there are inclusive of their cooking pros & cons. What labels you should look for when choosing a brand. Wait… Why Should I Change my Pots & Pans? It might not be the first thing you do in your health journey. But unfortunately, kitchen cookware can leach materials into foods. Now, should you be scared of your...

Hey B Better family, What do you need to have healthy white blood cells? What type of white blood cells can you find on your lab reports? And what do these types actually do? These are all questions you will find answered here! Right now in my country (The Netherlands) a lot of people have the flu and/or COVID. Almost 60 percent of the Dutch people are in the winter vitamin D deficient. Why? Because the sun doesn’t rise high enough in the sky for enough UVB light radiated from the sun to pass the ozone layer. 60%!!! We need vitamin D to produce white blood cells. Almost...

Another tip that can help you understand your lab results! When you have been here around for a while, you probably have seen plenty! This tip will explain to you: What a CBC is. How to read it. And why it is important that you know! Let’s start with that last one. A doctor often sees a lot of patients in a day. Missing something is human and it happens. In fact, it happened to one of my clients yesterday. The education you will get here can also help you to understand the doctor better and makes you able to better talk to your GP. So let’s go: What is a...

Hi B Better Family, This week’s tip is a little bit different from other tips. Besides a tip, it is also a question to all of you! Often we provide you with know-how about how to heal your body in a natural way. We talk a lot about how stress can contribute to disease dynamics. But we also like to provide you with tips that will help you with what you can do about reducing stress. Since most people experience stress from relationships I thought this would be a good place to start. I have a series in mind called ‘Navigating Toxic Behavior &...

We often talk about stress, what tests you could take to measure your hormones, supplements, box breathing… things you can do when you experience a disbalance in your stress hormones. We know negative emotions can cause a disbalance in your stress hormones, but we didn’t talk about that yet here. This article goes more in-depth on how to recognise some toxic behaviours, so you can learn what to do with them. This tip will be about a manipulation technique called gaslighting. This article answers the questions: What is Gaslighting? Why do people gaslight? What...