To Mix or Vitamix?
Blending, juicing, and more but what is the best way to optimize your nutrition? There are a lot of options available and there are a lot of misconceptions as well and I’d like to got through some of them.
Winter Wellness Wisdom
Many people diffuse essential oils to help with the immune system and this is a great idea. My favorites are some sort of Thieves/On Guard or any other brand with the same ingredients.
Stomach Acid Secretion Tends To Decline With Advancing Age
Numerous studies have shown that hydrochloric acid secretion declines with age.
What Is Nutritional Medicine?
The practice of nutritional medicine includes several main components, the relative importance of which varies from one patient to another.
For most patients, nutritional therapy starts with “cleaning up the diet” by emphasizing a wide variety of whole, unprocessed foods and minimizing intake of refined sugars, other refined carbohydrates, trans fatty acids, food additives, and other undesirable constituents of a typical Western diet.
Spreading a little holiday cheer with Goji berries
As the holiday season approaches, incorporating healthy snacks into holiday parties could be more beneficial for you than just watching the waistline.
Oregano: Culinary Wonder Meets Medical Miracle
If oregano is a wonder in the kitchen, it's a miracle in the medicine cabinet. This Mediterranean spice can help stimulate digestion. It is also a powerful antioxidant.
Cilantro: More Than The Finishing Touch On Your Favorite Foods.
While people may think of this herb for adding to guacamole or a garnish for other foods cilantro isn't just a culinary culprit; it's a medical marvel.
Not all salt is created equal. Here's why:
Table salt is officially not cool. Along with evidence that shows the added iodine in the salt supply could precipitate thyroid problems (the very thing it was put there to prevent), it is also higher in sodium that other, more natural, sea salts.
Mushrooms might be the next superfood. Here's why:
Mushrooms are the next super food if there ever was one. These fungi can be great for the immune system, nervous system, respiratory system and also may help with energy.
Corn 101: A Little About The Not So Cool Side Of Corn
Corn is one of the number one crops in the U.S. But, did you know that genetically modified corn is made by joining together parts of viruses (promoter) and other infectious genetic parasites (plasmids and transposons) that spread antibiotic and multiple drug resistance genes via a process termed Horizontal Gene Transfer (You really don't want to know the specific pathogens on this one. It's super gross).
pH: What's All The Buzz About?
There's been a buzz about pH and what to do about it, but what does it mean?