What’s the hype (or not) about eating seamlessly harmless foods like grains, legumes, nuts and seeds? More specifically, what's so wrong with the energy-yielding nutrients or proteins found in them in particular... gluten, lectins, wheat-germ agglutinin, phytates, tannins, etc.? The bottom line is… can you continue to eat some of your favorite ...
Mother Nature’s Gut Remedies
More often than not, factors in your diet are the primary cause of gut health issues like leaky gut, gas, bloating, abdominal pain, constipation or diarrhea, and more. These are things you can control in your life and for the most part a healthy gut-friendly diet can help to prevent more serious issues like autoimmune disease. If you turn your ...
Let Food By Thy Medicine
Do you know what one of the most important root causes of most disease is? Let me give you a hint… it’s not your genes, cholesterol number, or workout routine. It’s poor food choices. Even more interesting to note is that most people are still hearing from their doctors (and ironically still believing) that, what you eat has no impact on your ...
The Heart & Gut Connection
Did you know the health of your gut and internal flora can affect how healthy your heart is? A broadening area of research into the microbiome is now looking at the relationship our trillions of gut microbes have to increased risk for heart disease.1 We already know there is a deep connection between the brain and gut (and all those trillions of ...
The Truth About Food Allergies & Sensitivities
Itchy, watery eyes, hives, bloating, gas and even pain… all of these could point to some kind of allergy or reactivity to the food you are eating. You’re not alone with these kinds of issues and I’d bet you’d be surprised to find out just how many others like yourself suffer a similar fate. Years ago food sensitivities whether allergies or ...
What’s For Dinner? Feeding Your Gut Bacteria
It seems that a day doesn't go by when some kind of report comes out professing the importance of the gut microbiome and those trillions of microbes. The data is fairly overwhelming: what we eat significantly affects the makeup of our gut flora. So what does this mean for personal nutrition, diets and overall optimal health? Will the "Microbiome ...
5 Strategies For Getting A Good Night’s Sleep
We all want to wake up feeling rested and refreshed from a good night's sleep mind and body ready to dive into the day. Unfortunately, for many of us, that's not how our mornings usually begin. Millions of people do not get enough sleep and many suffer from lack of sleep (for sometimes days at a time). A good night's rest impacts everything, ...
Secrets to a Stress-Proof Life
Stress is not a nice word and no one really likes to talk about it or admit to just how much it controls our lives. It makes us feel bad, drains our energy, fogs up our thinking, makes us snap at our friends and family, and causes us to rush through life without even taking a breath. Have you ever thought about finding some healthy (and fun!) ...
Mind-Body Wisdom For Self-Healing
We carry within each of us, in the mind-body connection, the seeds of healing. These reside in our cells, genes, memories, and collective awareness. Wellness is the sincere desire to open our awareness fully and completely to the mind-body (and spirit) connection and the possibility of letting this innate knowledge direct the course of our ...
The Brain-Gut Connection
In a world where the body is viewed holistically as a group of interrelated systems that all rely on each other, the brain-gut connection makes perfect sense. Your brain does more than just think and do and your gut is so much more than a food processor. There is an undeniable strong bond between these two systems that governs everything... from ...
