Certain foods and nutritional choices are especially useful in helping you control AFib, prevent symptoms, and minimize complications. Follow these guidelines when deciding how to eat to manage atrial fibrillation (AFib): For breakfast, choose whole, high-fiber foods like fruits, pseudograins … Read More
Knowledge is Power
Melatonin for COVID-19: Cure and symptom relief options? Other natural foods?
This post is updated from my original of March 2020—as of March 2021, nearly 40 peer-reviewed papers discuss melatonin for COVID-19 and at least four clinical trials are underway. Forty papers! reflects a lot of research on melatonin and one … Read More
Sleep hygiene: Health depends on sleep: Melatonin?
Healing and repairing occurs while you sleep. Good quality and quantity of sleep are essential for good health and overall quality of life yet so few of us get enough. We might experience sleep as a state of unawareness, yet our brain is sorting memories from the day, processing what we learned, storing emotional responses and associations, creating new neural connections… During sleep, our body shifts into a cardiovascular and metabolic state that heals and repairs, removes cellular toxins, and resupplies key nutrients.
How to get good sleep? Here’s your sleep hygiene checklist. … Read More
Boost Your Immune System; Defeat Corona and Flu Viruses Naturally
Is your immune system weak due to diet and lifestyle? Is your child’s? If so, you are especially susceptible to pathogens like the flu or even the Corona virus. While we remain glued to Corona virus developments, cancel flights, stay … Read More
Food as Medicine
My decision to design my own individual, food as medicine, healthy lifestyle stemmed from personal health struggles. A lifetime of Lyme disease (not diagnosed until I was 52) that impacted my ability to compete athletically and a dairy sensitivity causing … Read More
Are you worrying about the Coronavirus?
Are there natural approaches to boost the immune system and prevent coronavirus infection? Absolutely … Read More
Start the 10 Day Reset Challenge
Clear out “Holiday Sludge” in 10 days. Each day take one step. Then the next… contribute whole foods recipes, your experience with that step, ask questions… Happy New Year! … Read More
Maximize holiday fun while sticking to your health goals
Holiday libations, celebrating with friends and family… food is often the centerpiece of social occasions. Download my FREE Holiday Recipe book. Bring or make a dish that will be praised and restart the tradition of healthy holiday eating. … Read More
Autism Spectrum Disorder and other Behavioral Nutrition
Autism is increasing from 14.6 per 1,000 children aged 8 years, higher in boys (23.6 per 1,000) than girls (5.3 per 1,000) with costs of care exceeding $17,000 annually (not including lost work hours) to an estimated 1 in 68 children in 2019. Thought to arise from interactions between epigenetic influences, genetic predisposition, and one or more inflammatory triggers, most care is aimed at addressing behavioral issues. While behavioral interventions are important, none will work without also addressing the nutritional and inflammatory components. Your child only knows how to cry, become angry, not sleep or oversleep, or otherwise protest when they do not feel well. … Read More
Parasites: Unwanted guests, hitch-hikers, and hijackers
We become infected with parasites when our innate defense system is compromised:Antacids, Immune imbalances, Leaky gut, Inflamed digestive tract… Parasites are not from visiting 3rd world countries–over half of all Americans are infected. Fix it! … Read More
Diabetes—Manage blood sugar with whole foods
Whether you have diabetes or want to prevent it, elevated blood sugar can be managed with a whole foods diet and in many cases diabetes can be reversed. Get a good strategy for blood-sugar control choices. … Read More
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
Blood sugar high? Blood pressure high? Despite doing everything? Read this:
How is it that people who eat well, exercise regularly, have normal body composition and take supplements… still don’t feel well. How do these amazing people still have blood sugar issues (and some aren’t even aware)? After all, they are … Read More
Don’t let your pets suffer—their commercial food may be the problem.
It’s one thing to use catchy brand names and empty marketing terms like “gourmet” or “science-based” or “premium”… just like “all natural” these can mean anything or nothing.
This week, I relieved no less than 5 pets from symptoms caused by their food. Call me. I can help and I don’t charge for pet checks 🙂 It’s a community service. … Read More
Baffled by oxidative stress? What are free radicals, anyway?
“Whatever disturbs to any considerable extent the nutrition of the body, destroys that harmony which exists between the natural waste constantly going on in it and the assimilative processes by which such losses are repaired, and must produce disease.” –Wm … Read More
Are you hardwired for happiness?
Hi, my closest friends, Some people around us focus more on the negative than the positive. For example, a colleague receives overwhelmingly positive feedback in their recent work review, then fixates on the few criticisms. I love life. We can … Read More
Should I get a flu shot?
Hope all is well with you and yours. I need to put something on the table. Something you’ve likely suspected or even been aware of for some time now. Should you get a flu shot? While it’s easy to point … Read More
Shifting diet into fall—an Ayurvedic view
September, Indian Summer, a hint of chill in the air, shortening daylight and the midday sun doesn’t seem as bright… gardens grow “leggy” and we watch frost warnings… While some of us wish summer could last forever, with each new … Read More
Do we really want to achieve the lowest blood pressure or cholesterol possible?
The BIGGEST question we want to ask when our labs, exam results, etc. etc. come back “out of range” or “concerning is… WHY WOULD THE BODY THINK THIS IS GOOD? Think about it. You are designed to survive. These are … 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 More … Read More