Blog — brellow

Canola oil has practically taken over as the food processing industry’s oil of choice. Whether it’s mayonnaise, chips, or salad dressings, canola oil is usually the first, second or third ingredient on the list. Unfortunately, the health dangers of canola oil are far beyond what we’ve been led to believe.So if there aren’t any actual health reasons to use it, why would it be so widely used throughout the food industry? As with most reasons certain ingredients are used over others – the price. Canola oil is extremely inexpensive to grow and harvest. It is also very easy to grow, due to its...

Research continues to confirm that gut health is incredibly important to our overall physical and mental wellbeing. The easiest place to start is by incorporating bone broth into your diet daily. Broth is packed full of calcium, magnesium and phosphorus and provides gelatin and collagen for cell integrity and healing. When you cook up a broth, fat naturally rises to the surface of the liquid. Some choose to skim that off and discard it or you could do what we do, keep that nutritionally rich, fatty gold and use it as an amazing cooking fat.  For the purpose of this review, we were...

Written by Dr Axe You may not have realized it, but chances are you’ve consumed something called butyric acid before, and believe it or not, your body produces it as well. It’s true — butyric acid, also known as butanoic acid or BTA, is a saturated short-chain fatty acid found in butter, ghee, raw milk, animal fats and plant oils. It’s also formed in and therefore found in our colons through the bacterial fermentation of carbohydrates like dietary fiber. Butyric acid supports the health and healing of cells in the small and large intestine. It’s also the favored source of fuel for the cells lining the interior of the...