lifestyle choices

How Lifestyle Influences Your Genes and Immune System

Epigenetics is truly fascinating. Understanding the connection between genetics and lifestyle, and how it affects the immune system is empowering and essential for all of us looking to take control of our health. In functional medicine, the study of how gene...

How Healthy Was the Pilgrims’ First Thanksgiving?

As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches here in the US, I thought it might be fun to take a look at what historians believe the pilgrims and the Wampanoag Native Americans ate on their first Thanksgiving in 1621. You might be surprised, no matter what pictures like...