Dr. Mark Hyman, will you be my boyfriend? (My husband says it’s okay!) Because you’re just about the cutest, smartest man I’ve had the chance to talk sugar with. And not just sugar – sugar cravings. Blood sugar. Cortisol. Some of my very favorite things to nerd out over. Dr. Hyman knows his stuff, too. [...]
Be honest: is your holiday season centered on food? Noshing your way through a cocktail party, or wondering about the caliber of wine at your work gathering? Helping yourself to a second serving of gorgonzola mashed potatoes or Yorkshire pudding at the family dinner…or a few more latkes at Aunt Sadie’s Hanukkah celebration? Yes, Hanukkah [...]
Could there be a better time to turn Paleo than July 4? We’re surrounded by meat on offer, and some of it is even hormone balancing. Let’s get brutally honest. Are you happy with how you feel in your bod? Not at the weight you most want? Does your mood depend on the number on [...]
This month we’re singing the praises of the cleanse to keep us from singing the blues. Last week I shared how dairy can really slow down our systems and how I kicked the dairy habit. Today, I want to share how a cleanse helps to detox our liver which works so damn hard to break [...]
Rock your fiber, but not for the reason you’re thinking. Eighty percent of women aged 35+ have estrogen dominance, and fiber is proven to lower estrogen levels (and prevent breast cancer). Mind the Gap I recommend (and Dr. Weil) 35-45 grams of fiber per day yet the average fiberintake among American women is less than [...]
Most Americans are now unable to stop eating refined sweets and starches. Why? Because these foods are actually more addictive than alcohol or drugs! No joke. Sugar ages you prematurely and feeds the wrong message to your genetic code. Stop the sugar train. As NIDA chief Nora Volkow explained in her April 30, 2012, 60 [...]
Darlings, first the good news. You have a choice about how estrogen works for or against you in your body. The bad news is that the latest, best evidence shows that 3 or more servings of alcohol per week may increase your risk of breast cancer quite seriously. Three. Per week. Most women I know [...]
There, I admit it. It’s time to get brutally honest. After all, I’m in my forties, perimenopausal, and the best part about it is the newfound clarity, the lift of the hormonal veil–regarding the endless accommodation, the people-pleasing, the half-hearted enthusiasm for things you don’t really enjoy but you do them anyway. Such [...]
Today I was on a telejam with my new friend, Alexandra Jamieson, who is the nutritionista in the award-winning film, Super Size Me, author and a brilliant certified health and nutrition coach who makes complex subjects like food biochemistry both fascinating and understandable. We were talking the nutrient-dense foods that boost metabolism, get your metabolism right-sized [...]
Did you know that the Chinese were the first to create, compound, document and prescribe bioidentical hormones to replace what’s lost due to aging? Certainly not me, yet I am not surprised to learn of this–as my interviewee last week, fourth-generation Chinese Doctor 刘英山 Liu Ying Shan, tells me that the main tenet of Traditional Chinese [...]
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