NaturaGuide: Your Questions, Our Answers
In the guide we answer questions that occupy people with exhaustion, digestive complaints, headaches, lab values or prevention. Each article begins with a short answer, names warning signs for medical evaluation and does not replace individual advice.
Bloating and Abdominal Pain Despite a Healthy Diet
Whole grains, raw vegetables and legumes are considered healthy, yet cause complaints in some people. Possible causes and ways to investi…
Burnout: Exhaustion at Work and the Way Back to Yourself
Burnout often arises where work, values and recovery no longer fit together. Signs, influencing factors and ways to find yourself again.
Functional Medicine: What Is It and How Does a Work-Up Proceed?
Functional medicine asks about connections between gut, hormones, metabolism and nervous system. How a first visit proceeds, what it cost…
Headaches and Migraines: What You Can Observe Before Your Doctor’s Appointment
A headache diary helps doctors with classification. Also: warning signs that must be checked immediately and commonly discussed influenci…
Heavy Metals and Environmental Toxins: How the Body Breaks Down Harmful Substances
The body has its own ways of breaking down and excreting foreign substances. An overview of liver, kidney, gut, glutathione and how heavy…
I Am Exhausted – What Could Be the Cause?
Persistent tiredness rarely has just one cause. An overview of possible causes, the role of mitochondria and how a functional work-up pro…
Infusions with Vitamins and Minerals: What They Can and Cannot Do
Infusions are common in holistic medicine. What they can do, where the evidence is thin, which risks exist and what is clarified beforehand.
Longevity for Beginners: What Prevention in Daily Life Really Means
Longevity does not mean living forever but staying healthy as long as possible. Five areas of daily life that play a role in research, an…
Mercury and Lead: The Invisible Burden and Detoxification Capacity
Mercury and lead are part of everyday life, usually in small amounts and unnoticed. Where they come from, how to measure them and what ro…
Muscle Building and Health: Why Muscles Matter So Much
Muscles are more than strength: they influence sugar metabolism, bones and mobility. How much training makes sense and why rest belongs t…
SIBO: Small Intestinal Overgrowth, Breath Test and Work-Up
With small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) there are too many bacteria in the small intestine. Symptoms, risk factors, breath test…
Stress and Cortisol: How the Body Reacts to Chronic Stress
Cortisol is not a “stress hormone villain” but follows a daily rhythm. How the body reacts to chronic stress, what can be measured and wh…
Tingling, Muscle Cramps, Hair Loss: When to Think of a Nutrient Deficiency?
Magnesium, iron, zinc, B vitamins: which nutrients are discussed for tingling, cramps and hair loss, what other causes exist and why high…
Tired Despite Enough Sleep: Which Lab Values Can Be Checked?
Iron stores, thyroid, vitamin B12, vitamin D and blood sugar: an overview of which values are often measured for persistent tiredness and…
Visceral Fat: Why Belly Fat Is More Than a Cosmetic Issue
Fat in the abdomen acts like a metabolic organ of its own. What visceral fat is, how to assess it and how it can be reduced in a healthy …
Vitamin D, B12, Magnesium: When Is a Test Useful and When Not?
Not everyone needs every test. When a vitamin D, B12 or magnesium value makes sense, which markers exist and what a result really says.