5 Rs for Gut Restoration
As we have talked about before, proper gut health is so important to our overall health. Problems with our gut health go much deeper than stomach aches and gas. …
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Eating the Rainbow
Benefits to eating the rainbow: The color of food can tell you a lot of information about the nutrients is contains. Eating a variety of colorful foods will nourish …
Prebiotics and probiotics explained
Our health starts in the gut! With a healthy and robust gut microbiome our other systems are more likely to be in harmony with one another and balanced. When …
What is Wellness?
Health and wellness are an interconnected web, when one strand gets tugged, the whole web is affected. Sometimes we need to work hard to focus on one specific aspect …
Transforming Stress
When we think about stress, we know it’s something that we don’t like, makes us uncomfortable and feels toxic. Stress can be thought about as a feeling that arises …
Vitamin D “The Sunshine Vitamin”
Vitamin D is a nutrient we can consume from our diet and a hormone that our body makes when exposed to sunrays. When ultraviolet rays from the sun hit …
Lets talk about fasting
The best of all medicines are resting and fasting – Benjamin Franklin Why fast? Research has shown benefits of fasting include: Weight loss Decreased appetite: while fasting people become …
Gut Health & Food allergies, sensitivities, and intolerances
When our gastrointestinal tract is dysregulated, it can have a profound impact on our health. It is a relatively sensitive organ and many of today’s common insults to it …
Psychology of Eating
What influences what you eat and how you eat?Imagine if your food choices and how you eat today could reflect who you wish to become. Genetics Most animal species …
Whole self-detox
Detox can mean many different things to different people. Through a functional medicine lens, it has a much more specific approach. Detox also has mental-emotional-spiritual aspects as well. It …