MicroGreens for MEGA-GAINS: Hack Your Plant Consumption
Microgreens have recently been getting a lot of attention in health circles,…
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The Reason Why You Feel Like You Don’t Fit In (for Highly Sensitive People)
Synchronize. Why You Feel You Don’t Fit In (For Highly Sensitive People).…
Microbiome Series: “Ground Zero” of Autoimmune Disease?
Microbiome Series: “Ground Zero” of Autoimmune Disease?
Microbiome Series: “Ground Zero” of All Chronic Health Issues, Part 2
Microbiome Series: “Ground Zero” of All Chronic Health Issues, Part 2. Gain…
High “Bad” Cholesterol? Good. You may live longer!
It should come as no surprise to readers of this blog that…
It’s Hard to Be Sexy When Your Allergies Are Acting Up
8 Ways to Calm Down Your Allergies. Itchy, Watery, Runny, Sneezy, Wheezy,…
Fibrenza Series 2: Bromelain Enzyme
Bromelain is an enzyme that is found in pineapple and is common in digestive enzymes. But you may not be getting it if you don’t eat this part of the pineapple…
Fibrenza Series 1: Protease Enzyme
Protease is an enzyme that breaks down protein. You’ll likely see this in digestive or systemic enzymes. Having a variety of proteases in important, so people need to understand that protease doesn’t mean it breaks down protein in the same spot, so every protease enzyme has a different…
Why Foam Rolling Might Not Be So Good For You
Foam rollers. You’ve probably seen them around and know them as little torture cylinders. They are now as ubiquitous in gyms as ab roller machines and given their crazy popularity – I bet it’s only a matter of time before we’ll start seeing foam rollers for dogs. Myofascial stretching and self-release have become a huge part…
Dream Come True: My Experience with The Human Longevity Project
Dream Come True: My Experience With The Human Longevity Project. I remember the day my parents bought a video camera. It was in the 80’s so this thing was huge and weighed a ton… but I was fascinated with it. I remember spending all summer making movies with my friends. I even remember creating storyboards,…
Still Learning: the Benefits of Meditation
My goal for the 2012 triathlon season was to win the Overall of the Great Floridian. The odds weren’t exactly stacked in my favor. I was coming off a four year layoff and hadn’t raced an Ironman since July of 2007. I was older. I had less training time available than at any other time…
Case Study: How Tracy Used Megaspore
Interested in how Megaspore has helped others? Read what Tracy has experienced while using Megaspore on her family and pet.
Yin and Yang : A Basic Introduction
Chinese Medical theory, though scientific in its own right, is built on a foundation of ancient philosophical thought. Many of these ideas are based on observations of nature and are the reason why Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM ) has remained a truly holistic approach to health and well being.
Practical Tips for Detoxing Through Your Skin
Believe it or not, your skin is considered to be the largest organ of your body. We usually think of our skin as a barrier, keeping microbes out and our body parts in. It wraps us in an outer shell that has become such a part of us, we forget it has the capacity to selectively allow…
10 Stoic Quotes That Will Cause You To Smash Your Mental Blocks
Stoicism has been used most effectively by both slaves and Emperors. By athletes and business executives. By fighter pilots taken captive. By people from every walk of life you could think of for thousands of years. In other words, as Ryan Holiday would say, it works. Yes, it’s a philosophy. But it’s more like an operating system…
Microbiome Part 3: Gut-Brain Connection
All right. We are onto the next subject, and one that often gets overlooked when we’re talking about microbiome, or gut health, or any of those topics, is the link to the brain. There’s a term that you as the reader might have come across in the past.
Winding Down At Night Without The Wine
It is so easy to get to a place where having a glass of wine several days a week, if not almost daily, becomes the norm. The habit sneaks in so slowly you barely notice that your feet ache when you get out of bed, that your energy is a little low in the afternoons…
5 Kitchen Must Haves for Healthy Living
You may think healthy living in the kitchen is solely based on the physical food you eat; but, have you ever considered if the item you’re cooking IN is impacting your body? Because guess what, it is! The item you cook in may be releasing extremely harmful toxins into your delicious meal causing your healthy…
Microbiome Part 2: Leaky Gut
All right. We have a very popular topic here to talk about in the functional health world, and that is “leaky gut”. I’ll put that in quotes also because that’s a commonly thrown around term where I don’t know if people who use it often even understand really what it means or what it is.…
Microbiome Part 1: What Is It?
So we’re gonna start with the basics. What is the ‘microbiome,’ and I put that in quotes, because that word is used a lot. When someone says ‘microbiome’ or we read ‘microbiome’ on something, what, exactly, does that mean?
Favorite Family Recipe (that your child will love)
Do you have a favorite family recipe that is super simple? Cooking should be simple. It should be simple enough that we won’t spend hours preparing our food in the kitchen. Simple enough that there are no weird or exotic ingredients that we are not familiar with. Simple and tasty enough that even the pickiest…