Every time we commit to a weight-loss game plan, or healthier eating plan, or not so many treats (except sometimes) or… some important goal, we are enthusiastic, motivated, determined to stick to it. We’re going to do it! Cauliflower rice? … Read More
Author Archives: Marie
Whole food or synthetic supplements?
Due to dietary habits in the United States, despite eating too many calories many of us are deficient in vitamins A, C, D, and E and choline, calcium, magnesium, iron, and potassium. We are deficient in fiber. Our public health … Read More
The toxic stuff in us
How we overload our body with toxics Each day, every day, and all through the night, your organs of detoxification are designed to collect the waste products sent them from every cell, transform them into something less toxic, and ultimately … Read More
Are toxic chemicals the reason you still feel sick?
“I had muscle spasms. Soon, it spread to my heart—my blood pressure and my heart rate would shoot up unexpectedly. Just getting up to use the bathroom would leave me out of breath with my heart racing, playing with my … Read More
Digestive enzymes: Healthy or hype?
Digestive enzymes in your gut… …liberate and absorb nutrients from your food, yet somehow keep toxic chemicals moving through, and out. …kill unwanted bacteria, parasites, yeast… even viruses, yet maintain trillions of helpful bacteria and even helpful yeast—imagine that, helpful … Read More
Purified vs Distilled vs Regular Water: Any Difference?
Every cell in your body needs water. For your cells—and therefore you—to function at all, to create energy, to eliminate waste, to carry out all their vital jobs, you must continuously hydrate all day long. The two big debates? How … Read More
Sugar industry lies: Why fat is not the enemy
You read last week’s article “Obesity & Diabetes: The lower the carbs the better?” Hopefully, I’ve inspired you to begin to reduce the sugar in your life because you learned that even small changes could help. (Good for you!) Marketing … Read More
Where to start: Reset your metabolism
There is a modern epidemic, a deadly disease that one of every two of you have, a disease that’s making you fat, sick, and will kill you. It isn’t infectious and 90 percent of you don’t even know you have … Read More
Is your liver draining? Gallbladder has stones?
Your hard-working liver is the most complex and heaviest organ in the body performing some 500+ functions day in and day out. One of those functions is to continuously produce bile—a fluid essential to neutralize the acidic stomach contents as … Read More
Could it be Candida?
Do you get intense sugar cravings, digestive problems (gas or bloating, or both), brain fog, exhaustion, and anxiety or depression? Perhaps you have bad breath, maybe a white coating on your tongue (oral thrush), you’ve lost your sex drive, your … Read More
Is your low energy adrenal fatigue? Autoimmune? Or something else?
Tired? but wired? Is your fatigue because you’re not sleeping? Or is “can’t sleep” the cause of your fatigue? Burned out? Sure, we all know this feeling well—maybe all too well as we live a fiery, fast-paced life. If you … Read More
Treat the Patient, Not the Diagnosis
No matter the professional degree: Nutritionist, Doctor, Naturopath, Chiropractor… most of us are taught the system of if [symptom name] then take [supplement, herb, drug…] Imagine this scenario: you have a stuffy nose, incredibly tired, your muscles ache, chilled… Do … Read More
Correcting High Cholesterol: Inspect The Numbers
Why not everyone thinks “high Cholesterol” is high… Cholesterol is essential to your health. Every cell in your body needs it to make vitamin D, to make cell membranes, for making hormones including estrogen, testosterone, progesterone, cortisol, more… Cholesterol-derived hormones … Read More
Understanding Thyroid Health
A whopping 13 million Americans, perhaps 40 percent of women, may be misdiagnosed for thyroid conditions or imbalanced thyroid hormones. You have symptoms but blood tests are “normal” OR your thyroid is healthy but a screening test is “out of … Read More
Staying Healthy Year-round
Not just during the holiday season, all year round we have social engagements, travel, parties, big meals, snack foods at the office, drinking… it just escalates between Thanksgiving and New Years and then Valentine’s Day, oh, and Birthdays… Easter… Summer… … Read More