Uncover the health benefits of the keto diet with this detailed guide on the ketogenic diet. Learn how keto can lead to weight loss and improved health.

Discover the importance of an evening routine for better sleep and increased productivity. Get top tips for crafting your perfect routine now!

Discover the transformative power of morning routines for managing long COVID symptoms. The blog highlights a personalized healing morning routine, emphasizing discipline and positive habits. From early wake-ups to cold water therapy, it offers practical ideas to boost health, productivity, and overall well-being.

Histamine, an essential neurotransmitter, interacts with various neurotransmitters like GABA, serotonin, and norepinephrine, affecting mental health and mood. It also contributes to the immune system, helping in cell regeneration and fighting off infections…

Your limbic system is responsible for behavioral and emotional responses. This makes it an important part of keeping your immune system in check. If you don’t make it a point to keep your limbic system healthy, it can affect your ability to fight off disease.

In this article, we’ll talk more about your limbic system, limbic exercises, and how you can reverse your autoimmune disease with them.

So, under the recommendation of his nephew Doug decided to join a diabetes program centered around a ketogenic diet. It was an incredible transformation for Doug that he never thought was possible. Within weeks his blood sugars were in the normal ranges and his medications were lowered. After 3 months he was off all his medications. He was happy and joyful and his fatigue was gone.

In fact, oxalates contributed to my own chronic illness for many years without my knowledge. Understanding the effects of oxalic acid on the human body enabled me and has allowed many of my clients to overcome the last hurdles in our healing journeys.

This article will equip you to decipher if you have over consumed oxalates and how to protect yourself from this plant toxin without fearing food.

Now if you have been avoiding inflammatory foods but haven’t incorporated glyconutrients, this might be just the “bread crumb” you are looking for to lead you to recovery from your autoimmune disease.

If you just found out that you have been contributing to inflammation from eating the toxic lectin foods, you are not alone. Many of my clients had no idea and are now desperately trying to recover from an Autoimmune condition, chronic fatigue, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and weight gain. 

As a functional medicine nutritional therapy practitioner, I've worked with hundreds of clients with IBS symptoms and oftentimes people don't even know they are suffering from this condition. Diagnosis of these common symptoms is typically made 6.6 years after symptoms start. Even though chronic constipation and diarrhea affect between 25 and 45 million people in the United States, where 2 in 3 IBS sufferers are female, most doctors don't know the exact cause of IBS.

Food sensitivity testing has become extremely popular in the last few years. I remember when I first got a food sensitivity test from my Naturopathic doctor in 2010 and none of my friends had even heard about it. Now we are bombarded by food sensitivity testing companies on Instagram and Facebook that we can order without a doctor. But what do the results mean? How do we heal? Do I have to avoid these foods for the rest of my life?

What your doctor won't tell you is that there is a connection between your fatigue, weight gain, and digestive symptoms. He can’t tell you that your symptoms will be fixed with these medications but they will say “we can manage the symptoms.” But you came to the doctor to get help in getting rid of the symptoms, not manage them! This is because MDs are trained in symptom treatment with medications, and although they are excellent with acute care your chronic symptoms will continue to persist unless nutrition and lifestyle are addressed.

What is milk kefir? It is a probiotic drink, like liquid yogurt, that contains thousands of beneficial bacteria and yeasts. It helps to control the overgrowth of yeast or candida your body might be fighting. ⁠

⁠Especially if you have:⁠ sugar cravings⁠, rashes⁠, acne⁠, joint pain, digestive issues, sinus infections⁠

You can balance your hormones naturally once you understand the big connection between gut health and your hormones. In my experience as a functional nutritionist, the endocrine (hormone) system affects the microbiome which contributes to these imbalances and if you don’t work on gut health the hormones often stay out of balance. If you are reading this blog, you likely have gut microbiome imbalances if you have hormonal acne, hormonal weight gain, PCOS, Thyroid Disease, Adrenal Fatigue, menopause or PMS symptoms.

Getting the perfect amount of glow and radiant skin might seem achievable only through spending a pretty penny on every beauty product ad served to you…but it doesn’t have to be that way. Almost all vitamins A through D hold some cosmetic value. So ditch the overstocked beauty product shelf and try some of these inexpensive (and healthy) alternatives!

When you’re a teenager, self-conscious and unsure, acne can weigh on your self-esteem and make you feel like isolating yourself. You dream of a day when you’re older and zit-free, only to discover that acne does not necessarily ride off into the sunset on your 18th birthday. For up to 22% of adult women and 3 percent of adult men, acne is something that lingers well into your adult years.

I know you’ve thought about it because almost all of my clients ask me “is coffee good or bad for me?” Coffee and acne have an interesting connection, but this connection is not as directly related as you might think. Even if you don’t suffer from acne, but you have low energy, weight imbalances, hormone imbalances, and/or digestive issues, stay tuned because you are going to learn all you need to know about the benefits and negative effects of coffee. 

I’m frequently shocked by our industrial food and medical systems lack of oversight by the FDA. As a functional medicine nutritionist it is highly disturbing to learn that cereals are fortified with metallic shavings of iron, or that most retail stores like GNC, Target, Walmart, and Walgreens sell supplements that do not contain the active ingredient advertised! In fact, they found that some of the contaminants identified included allium, pine, wheat/grass, rice, mustard, citrus, and dracaena (houseplant) 1.

You may have heard that milk is an inflammatory food that causes acne. But do you know why and that you can actually get back to drinking milk and having other dairy products while keeping your skin clear? As a functional medicine nutritional practitioner I never settle with telling people they can’t eat a specific food anymore.

WHY EAT LESS SUGAR? One of the biggest hurdles my clients have to overcome is their sugar cravings. These cravings (which are not bad and have an evolutionary purpose) are satiated excessively, secretly, and sneakily in many forms by industrial food corporations. I’m here to give you some foundational knowledge and practical tips to help you navigate your sugar cravings amid a society filled with Oreos and Chips Ahoy.