Food shopping and chemicals…
One of the key pieces of information that I learned through my IIN training was to shop carefully and limit the purchase of processed foods. In most cases in order …
Winter Health Support
The shorter, colder days provide us with mental and physical challenges. There is less sun (at least in the mid-Atlantic region) with more grey; less time to comfortably be outdoors; …
Should I or shouldn’t I? – the vitamin dilemna
In 400 BC, Hippocrates, the father of medicine said “let food be thine medicine and let medicine be thine food.” It has been over 2500 years and we still haven’t …
Are you “vampire” worthy? You may not want to be!
Before modern medical science, unexplained diseases such as plagues and epidemics seemed to appear without warning or cause. Because of these frightening illnesses “ (P)eople turned instead to the supernatural. …
Thank you and Happy Birthday, Johnny Appleseed – September 26th
Where does the “apple a day, keeps the doctor away” come from. There were two different sources for this noted in my research. The first was that it was a …
Zzzzzzz ?
How many “zzzz” are you getting each night? I have just finished reading two books –Why We Sleep (Matthew Walker) and The Circadian Code (Satchin Panda, PhD) and am anxious …
Live to Eat or Eat to Live?
Not so long ago, I would have put myself in the “live to eat” category – I love food – all cultures, all sorts of crazy combinations. Then I took …
Real or Fake advice
The importance of our health has finally become a major topic of interest for most people. Whether it is related to food, exercise, alternative options, you can find a number …
Gut brain? I have a second brain???
Well, sort of… The gut brain is really the enteric nervous system (ENS) which in has tremendous influence over our head. “It’s known as a “second brain” because it (has) …
What’s in your gray matter?
Just because you are getting chronologically older, doesn’t mean that your brain will deteriorate. Our brains can continue to grow and expand, IF we lead a healthy life and continue …