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Love Your Liver: 7 Ways to Detox and Remove Toxins
Our bodies are exposed to toxins on a daily basis. These toxins come from many environmental sources including pollution, toxic ingredients in household cleaning products, beauty products, and processed foods.…
Read MoreSugar and Brain Health: How to Keep Your Marbles As You Age
We all know that sugar is not good for the waistline. But do you know the effect sugar has on your brain health? Sugar is perhaps the best-known offender when…
Read MoreCould The Gut-Brain Axis Hold The Secrets To Radically Transform Your Health?
Do any of these sound familiar? Do you struggle to lose weight? No matter what you do, the scale won’t budge? Do you feel that your thinking is “foggy”, that…
Read MoreThe Effects of Sugar: How it Robs us of Health
Some believe sugar is killing us. Some believe sugary foods like cake, pies and ice cream are comfort food, but in reality, sugar is disrupting our health. Now I think of sugar as a toxin in most people.
Read MoreHow Oxalates Affect Your Gut, Urinary Tract, and Risk of Autoimmune Conditions
In personalized lifestyle medicine, sometimes one person’s superfood is another person’s poison. Such is the case with oxalates, which are found in high concentrations in many presumed health foods. Once…
Read MoreWomen and Addictive Tendencies: Food and Alcohol
We live in a culture of partial truths when it comes to food and alcohol. We tend to exaggerate our assets and minimize our liabilities. I used to do it…
Read MoreStroke, Toxins, and Women
You may never think of stroke. You may not think you’re at risk, that it’s a problem that occurs in older people, like grandparents. Certainly, it’s not a health risk…
Read MoreThe Keto Diet in Women
As nutritional ketosis or “keto” grows in popularity, I see more women struggle with it. Certainly, there are some people who go on the keto diet, see all the benefits…
Read MoreWays to Wean Yourself Off of Alcohol
In all three of my books and on this blog, I write about how alcohol threatens your hormonal health. It causes weight gain, robs you off your sleep, wrecks your…
Read MoreWhat Really Happens When You Go Gluten Free
We can’t have a conversation about grains without talking about gluten, which is in so many of our favorite products. The word “gluten” is actually the Latin word for “glue”;…
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