As I continue my series on functional foods and functional food facts, I’d planned to share my “gold standard” for detecting foods that might be causing imbalance in body systems. I decided to wait, though, and instead share some recent statistics I find shocking. ...
Nearly 2500 years ago, Hippocrates identified a correlation between diet, exercise, and overall health. When people moved their body and ate a mainly fresh, plant-based diet, they developed fewer diseases. In a quote from Helen King’s book, Hippocrates Now, The...
One of the best resources functional healthcare practitioners have is each other. A supportive, like-minded community that can learn through shared experience is vital to the advancement of root-cause healthcare and the work needed to change a well-established, but...
Ingredients: 1 cup wakame seaweed, soaked (you can substitute arame if desired) 2 large cucumbers, peeled, quartered and sliced 1 medium tomato, chopped 1/2 cup basil, fresh, finely chopped 1/2 medium lemon, juiced 1/2 medium lime, juiced 2 cloves garlic, minced 1...
There is a dangerous idea circulating that intermittent fasting is good for everyone, all the time. That just isn’t true. If you’re pregnant, have chronic health issues, an eating disorder, brittle diabetes, or a low body mass index, it may not be a good choice. When...
What do we do to have a healthy mouth? Most of us are already brushing our teeth twice per day and don't realize that the products we use harm the longevity of our teeth. Trina Felber, founder of Primal Life Organics, has an impressive story of turning her family's...