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Kefir: Supercharge your gut health
If yogurt is your “go to” for daily probiotics, maybe it’s time you give yogurt’s big brother a try.
Enter “Kefir.”
Covid-19: The Elephant in the room
We can learn from this pandemic and change our habits and lifestyle to become healthier and boost our immunity at the same time.
Protected: Countdown to your Prime Time Body
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Even with a healthy diet, you may be deficient in these nutrients.
The top 10 supplements most Americans need Americans this year will spend over 40 billion dollars on supplements, meal replacements and sport nutrition products, a number that will continue to rise. But do supplements really work? Studies are mixed, but supplements seem to be beneficial when there are deficiencies in one’s diet, and food quality is less than optimal. Head to any grocery store and you’ll see that it’s more difficult than ever to navigate your available choices and find the whole and wholesome foods buried among the processed, junk and fake food. Even if you strictly follow a nutritious…
How to turn up your metabolic thermostat so you can eat normally again
Why “eat less, move more” is a lie It seems so straightforward. Cut calories, and you’ll lose weight. Actually, you will lose weight initially, but as time goes on you’ll need to cut more and more calories just to avoid regaining your lost weight. Of course, you already know that. How many times have you lost weight only to gain it back plus more. You’re hardly eating anything yet the scale keeps going up. You may not believe it, but the reverse is true also. If you try to gain weight and increase your calories, you’ll gain weight for a…
Super 7: A1c
The A1c test evaluates the average amount of glucose in the blood over the last 2 to 3 months. It does this by measuring the concentration of glycated hemoglobin A1c. The higher the concentration of glucose in the blood, the more glycated hemoglobin is formed. Once the glucose binds to the hemoglobin, it remains there for the life of the red blood cell – normally about 120 days. The predominant form of glycated hemoglobin is referred to as HbA1c or A1c. A1c is produced on a daily basis and slowly cleared from the blood as older RBCs die and younger…
A dreaded cancer diagnosis
Every one of us has personal experience with a cancer diagnosis. Whether ourselves or someone close to us it’s always life changing news. Most will travel down conventional treatment paths including surgery chemotherapy and radiation. Many will research alternative therapies either as an adjunct to conventional treatment or a complete replacement. While there’s plenty of quackery out there, my personal experience with survivors convinces me that there is definitely a nutritional component to surviving cancer or to extending quality of life. My “survivor” friends have all adopted a healthy lifestyle and that along with their spirituality has made them “my…
Simplify your health.
The 4 Pillar Program We often make things quite difficult, don’t we? Take for example your health. Your grandparents didn’t count calories, worry about macro nutrients, limit fat, exercise at the gym or even slather on the sunscreen. If they lived prior to the widespread use of antibiotics, they likely died of an infectious disease, but chronic disease was almost unheard of! What would our health look like if no one suffered from chronic diseases. No diabetes, no heart disease, no fatty liver, thyroid, IBS, Celiac and arthritis. What if obesity rates were that of when your grandparents were young?…
No willpower. . . No problem!
What was your New Year’s resolution? Do you even remember? O.K., so maybe you’re one of the 8% that actually accomplished their resolution. For the other 92%, what went wrong? Where do you veer off the path? Unfortunately, the statistics for successful long term weight loss are even more dismal. Try one half of one percent! That’s less that 1 in 100 dieters sustain long term weight loss. The deck is really stacked against the dieter for a number of reasons, but it’s clear that success depends on a permanent lifestyle change. Maybe this begins with a nutritional plan that’s…