It’s the worst, isn’t it? Waking up in the middle of the night, heart pounding, mind racing, eyes wide open? Feeling like there is no possibility of falling back to sleep. Counting how many hours a until the alarm is set to go off. Noticing how many minutes you’ve been tossing and turning. Getting aggravated, […]
Nutrition – I don’t even like using this word anymore because it’s so dang serious. And you can just forget about the word “diet” because that just screams restriction, even if it simply refers to the food you eat. When did we start wigging out about what we eat? When humans stopped eating real whole foods […]
OMG, for years I avoided fat. Fat-free toast and spray butter for breakfast, or fat-free cereal and fat-free milk, fat-free rice cakes, fat-free yogurt, fat-free cheese, fat-free crackers, fat-free cookies, fat-free ice-cream, fat-free creamed cheese, everything had to be fat-free, or ‘at least’ low fat. Name a processed food and there was an even more […]
I first heard of oil pulling years ago. There were so many skeptics of the practice that I never considered trying it until recently. I’m studying Nutritional Therapy and just concluded a section on detoxification, and one of the many different detoxification methods was oil pulling. Since I had a dental cleaning appointment scheduled at […]
David Perlmutter’s Brain Maker is a fascinating read about our gut microbes, aka the Microbiome. He paints a very clear picture about the various roles the microbiome is responsible for in our overall health, especially as it relates to the brain. I was so floored by what I learned that I am compelled to share […]
I got my first in depth look at the microbiome from David Perlmutter, author of the book, Brain Maker. It’s a mind-blowing and exciting read about the connections between our microbiome and it’s impact on disease. The microbiome is the community of gut bugs and microorganisms that live in the body. It has been referred […]