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How to Eat Healthy and Control Your Blood Sugar While Traveling
Traveling this Memorial Day weekend? Already planning your summertime family excursions? Attending your son or daughter’s college graduation on another coast? Dare I say planning the s’mores for that campout next month? All fun...
Radio Show: Shocking Truths About Insulin Resistance Demystified
Many people may be insulin resistant, even on a healthy, whole foods diet, and even if they test negative for diabetes or pre-diabetes! This show is about demystifying blood sugar imbalances and setting the record straight about what is a worldwide epidemic....
Fatigue Busting Raw Food Recipe Treat
To celebrate the Fatigue Awareness Week (May 12-17, 2016), I made this yummy raw vegan gluten-free living foods treat. I suggest it as a replacement for candy, coffee and soda to combat mid afternoon energy slump.  You will love...
Can Blood Sugar Imbalance and Insulin Resistance Be Causing Your Pain and Fatigue?
May 12th is International Awareness Day for Chronic Immunological and Neurological Diseases, including Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; so I thought it was a good day to talk about these common diseases and how they are...
Practitioner Corner: Leaky Gut – When Eating Good Food Makes You Feel Bad
I hope you're enjoying this blog post series, and that you are seeing why it is so important to ask your client the right in-depth questions as well as know the most useful functional testing available for a given set of...
Practitioner Corner: Isothiocyanates in Brassica – When Eating Good Food Makes You Feel Bad
Thanks for your comments on my previous post on genetic polymorphism, as well as your feedback on the 23andMe test. People were very interested in the test and I really do think it is comprehensive and affordable. Today I will be talking about something called...
What’s Going on with Perimenopause?
Today's guest post is from my friend and colleague Bridgit Danner she's an acupuncturist and a functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner who specializes in women' s health.. She's also the founder of the Women's Wellness Summit. This is a great article about...
How Your Blood Chemistry & Functional Testing Dictates How You Feel…Really!
As your own health detective and health advocate you should consider doing some testing to see what’s really going on in your body. This is especially important if you’ve been feeling a bit off, have unexplained symptoms, or are finding that belly fat is sticking...
Do you have a blood sugar problem? I did!
In my practice, I have found that about 50% of my clients have a problem with their blood sugar and something called insulin resistance. Yes - 50%! It is the root cause of many health symptoms and diseases. Yet many people don’t...