Nutrition Response Testing

Impact of the garden in your gut on your health

The 4 Rs of Gut Healing

Let’s talk about handling parasites, other infections (yeast, bacteria, virus), and gut microbiome imbalances and strategies to address these. All of these can occur in seemingly healthy people and can exist, even coexist, for some time before there are symptoms. … Read More

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Balance your gut; boost your immune system; keep your brain healthy—the connection

The gut-immune-brain connection: Over 70% of your immune system is located in your gut! Two thin layers of more than 500 million nerve cells line your gastrointestinal tract from esophagus to rectum—the enteric nervous system (ENS). These sensory nerves in turn … Read More

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What diet works best? That depends!

Paleo, vegan, intermittent fasting, Whole 30, Keto… How do you choose the absolute best diet (for you)? I love it when clients email me with questions. Usually, questions range from health and weight loss, re-balancing the digestive tract, cardiovascular health, … Read More

Typical American Diet is Causing Our Health Problem

Are you worrying about the Coronavirus?

Are there natural approaches to boost the immune system and prevent coronavirus infection? Absolutely … Read More

Various autoimmune diseases, there are over 80 autimmune diseases

You’ve been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, now what?

Diagnosed with an autoimmune disease? Understand what is happening and get an anti-inflammatory meal plan that helps minimize your body’s attack on itself. … Read More

Flipping accountability on its head: Functional Nutrition

There is a monstrous gap between spending on public health initiatives (just 3 percent of healthcare dollars) and treatment of chronic disease (a whopping 86 percent of healthcare dollars). Something is very, very, broken if we spend more than $12,000 per person attempting to create … Read MoreRead 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

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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