Here's how to maximize your health savings account (HSA) for functional nutrition services. Understand how you can pay for qualified medical expenses with HSA.

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.

If your childhood was like mine, you regularly consumed pumpkin pie from Costco. Unfortunately, Costco pie (and most pies you buy from the grocery store) contains sugar, corn syrup, canola oil, refined flour, and mono & diglycerides. The Holiday season can be full of STRESS and SUGAR.

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. 

I decided to become a vegetarian when I went to college in 2009. This was a decision after reading The Jungle by Upton Sinclair when I was in high school and the realization that much of the industrial practices established in the early 1900s have not changed. I didn’t know much about veganism at the time but I knew that I didn’t want to contribute my dollars towards the mistreatment of animals and the environmental impacts of large-scale animal agriculture. So I went vegetarian.

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?

In the GAPS Intro diet, one abstains from grains, starchy vegetables, sugars, and refined foods. It consists of 6 stages, in which each stage introduces gut-healing foods (ex: meat stock, fermented foods, animal fats, non-starchy vegetables, and organ meats).

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.

Learn how to make kefir from raw milk at home with this easy recipe. Discover the benefits of raw milk kefir and fermentation and enjoy gut-friendly probiotics with every sip!

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.