Posts Tagged ‘gut health’
A Functional Medicine Guide To Nightshades + Inflammation
An expert guide to everything nightshades: What are they, how do you know if you have a sensitivity, and what should you replace them with?
Read MoreYour Go-To Guide To Homocysteine: What It Is + Why It Matters For Your Health
Learn about what homocysteine is, and how it affects your gut and overall health.
Read MoreRevive Your Sex Drive: The Top Reasons For Low Libido
Revive Your Sex Drive: The Top Reasons For Low Libido Millions of people struggle with low or no sex drive, although it makes people uncomfortable to talk about it. My patients rarely mention libido as an issue they would like to address until I ask them about it, and the naked truth (so to speak)…
Read MoreDeclutter Your Life + Inspire Your Overall Wellness With These Self-Care Tips
Declutter Your Life + Inspire Your Overall Wellness With These Self-Care Tips Rituals are a part of human history. Ancient people – even our grandparents – honored the sacred to give our lives more meaning and keep our minds focused on something higher than ourselves, whatever that meant to the individual. Life was slower and…
Read MoreA Functional Medicine Expert Reveals Myths About “Healthy” Foods & What To Eat Instead
A Functional Medicine Expert Reveals Myths About “Healthy” Foods & What To Eat Instead The food industry is a juggernaut trillion-dollar industry (that spends $4.6 billion on marketing (1) in the United States, and most of those dollars are geared towards (believe it or not) giving the people what they want. If fast food is popular, that’s…
Read MoreHow To Ditch Dieting For Good + Make Wellness A Sustainable Lifestyle
How To Ditch Dieting For Good + Make Wellness A Sustainable Lifestyle Many of us often have intentions of eating healthier, exercising more, and accomplishing new goals as the new year begins. Unfortunately, fast forward a few months and many of our intentions fall by the wayside. If you’re currently struggling to keep up with…
Read MoreThe Negative Effects Of Gluten + The Best Way To Go Gluten-Free
The Negative Effects Of Gluten + The Best Way To Go Gluten-Free Celiac disease is a real autoimmune disease that requires giving up gluten for life. But what about all the other people who don’t have celiac disease and claim they are “gluten intolerant”? Is that really a thing, or is it just a bunch of…
Read MoreSigns You Need To Detox + How To Live A Toxin-Free Life
Signs You Need To Detox + How To Live A Toxin-Free Life It’s a polluted world, and the dangerous impact has been revealed: Research is starting to show (1) the link between our increased toxin exposure and autoimmune conditions. Normally, the body does an excellent job at eliminating toxins to keep us healthy and thriving—in fact, we…
Read MoreThe Most Common Wellness Mistakes Even The Healthiest People Make
The Most Common Wellness Mistakes Even The Healthiest People Make A lot of my patients practice good health habits. They don’t eat much junk food, they avoid artificial sweeteners, they exercise….and yet, they still have health issues they can’t seem to get ahead of. They’ve already tried all the obvious moves, but they have underlying…
Read More19 Signs You’re Achieving Optimal Health
19 Milestones To Achieving Optimal Health How would you rate your own health? Most people rate their health as “pretty good” – even the ones coming to see me. And yet, when I dig a little deeper, asking about medications and symptoms, sleep quality and energy level and mood, I find that many of them…
Read MoreIt’s Not Just One Thing Making You Sick: Here’s Why That’s A Good Thing
It’s Not Just One Thing Making You Sick: Here’s Why That’s A Good Thing People don’t come to see me because they are feeling great. They come to see me, in my capacity as a functional medicine practitioner, because something is wrong. They have a particular health issue, or multiple issues, or just a general feeling…
Read MoreYour Definitive Functional Medicine Guide To Intermittent Fasting
Intermittent fasting guides & meal plans, for beginners, intermediates, & advanced. Benefits of intermittent fasting & how it affects your hormones.
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