Did you know your environment is likely the most important predictor of your overall health and wellness? Your health is essentially a microcosm of your environment. It is a distillation of your relationships with the earth, food, and other people (career, parenting, caregiving). Unfortunately our environment has become increasingly more toxic with chemicals, poor nutrition, […]
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This month’s recipe is just in time for Thanksgiving and believe it or not it’s for pie! But don’t be fooled. I’m still keeping it healthy. In fact, this pie is a bonus recipe for my Inflammation Detox participants. Proof that you can still eat pie, even when on a detox. Is it time to
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Vitamin D could very well be one of the most important nutrients for your immune system. Now that we are heading into cold and flu season (and a possible second wave of the pandemic) Vitamin D should be on everyone’s radar for supplementation. But how do you know how much to take? Vitamin D is
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I recently had a request from a reader to do a post about what’s in my pantry and/or fridge. I thought the best way to provide this information was in the form of a video. Check out my kitchen version of MTV cribs. If you don’t get this reference maybe I’m actually older than I
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Of course! Food is not just a source of calories. Think of the food you eat as messages that go directly to your genes. You have the choice to send positive messages or negative messages and this depends on the foods you choose to eat. In the case of inflammation, you can choose to send
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Inflammation is one of the most common underlying disease processes that we know of. Therefore if you prevent inflammation you are preventing chronic disease. Because inflammation is heavily influenced by diet, every year I invite patients to join my five week group Inflammation Detox so look for your invitation coming soon in September! And how
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Just because technology makes our lives easier it doesn’t mean that it makes our lives less stressful. In fact, it can be quite the opposite. Can you relate? We are digitally connected to work and each other like we have never been before. Technology has created the expectation that we should be responded to immediately
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If you are a long time reader of my blog, or a long term patient, or both, you already know that I have taken the month of August off the last three summers. This ended up being one of the best decisions I have ever made. Not only was it a priority for my mental
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Do you know what the three biggest complaints I hear from patients? Fatigue Weight gain AND Hormone imbalance Did you also know that you can prevent all of these by making sure that you are eating this one food group at breakfast? In fact, all of these symptoms are preventing by having proper blood sugar
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Back in the fall I wrote about taking care not only of your physical health, but your mental and emotional health as well. I also shared a few strategies that work for me. Today I want to dig a little deeper into some of those strategies and maybe even share a few more. If we
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