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❤️ Heart Health: The Unseen Risks and the Role of Coronary Calcium CT Scans
Courtney Hunt, MD On Valentine's Day, our thoughts often turn to hearts in a figurative sense. However, this February, let's also focus...

Courtney Hunt, MD
Feb 14, 20243 min read


Autophagy
On my page we spend a lot of time discussing autophagy, which literally means self eat or eat yourself. It is the process by which we...

Courtney Hunt, MD
Apr 19, 20214 min read


The Why
Let’s talk about how to heal. Every morning I do a free live video on Instagram to show you how to heal. I have been doing this daily for almost 2 years. Sometimes I leave them up, sometimes I take them down. Why? Because I want to help humanity heal as a whole. And I want every woman, man, and child to understand. No human left behind. Many mornings I realize that what I am saying may seem complicated because I teach a lot of quantum physics... but it doesn’t have to be. It’

Courtney Hunt, MD
Mar 10, 20217 min read


In the World of DNA, What is Nutrigenetics and is it Right for Me?
What is nutrigenetics, and how do I know if it is right for me? Are you sick, run-down, unhealthy, sad, anxious, achy, and tired of being told that your labs are normal and that there is nothing wrong with you? Are you a competitive type A person who is starting to lose your edge, become forgetful at work, feel like laying on the couch all weekend rather than playing with family and friends? When your labs show nothing is wrong, there is an entire field of science that may pr

Courtney Hunt, MD
Feb 19, 20217 min read


DHA: Seafood is Seefood
As discussed in the previous blog post, the mitochondrial production of ATP led to the evolutionary origin of vision and the nervous...

Courtney Hunt, MD
Jan 22, 20214 min read


Light, Mitochondria, DNA. Sunshine is the Only Way
Our mitochondria evolved from ancient bacteria called archaea to drive the power for our cells. They are our power plants. They contain 37 genes that provide the code to make the energy to instruct our DNA in the nucleus of our cells on how to run what I like to call our apps or software. These “apps” include two important processes called autophagy and apoptosis. Autophagy (which literally means eat yourself) is cell cleaning/ healing and apoptosis is cell death or suicide.

Courtney Hunt, MD
Jan 21, 20215 min read


Methylation Part 2
Proper functioning of methylation is required for our complex biochemistry to work as it should. When we have environmental or epigenetic...
desertjewelwellness
Oct 23, 20203 min read


Mitochondria Basics
Mitochondria are the energy producers of your cells. They are tiny organelles that originated as independent bacteria and were adopted by...
desertjewelwellness
Oct 23, 20202 min read


Methylation Part 1
Most people find their way to me because someone has told them that they have the famous MTHFR or “mother father” gene. Don’t worry, it's...
desertjewelwellness
Oct 22, 20205 min read
