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Winter Wellness: Seasonal Inflammation and Cozy, Nutritious Holiday Meals
As we settle into winter, it's a great time to focus on our well-being. This season offers a chance to try new things, from cozy, nutritious recipes to outdoor adventures that keep us active. Whether you're looking to explore local trails or experiment in the kitchen,...
Fall Wellness Feature: Gut Health
We can’t believe fall is already here! As its warm colors surround us, it’s a great time to embrace some positive health changes for our bodies, our minds, and our communities. Let’s make the most of the season’s fresh produce by trying out some delicious, healthy...
Why I Don’t Worry About Recurrence: My Take On Thyroid Health After Cancer
Almost everyone in America is taking some sort of medication or supplement to counteract the changes in our environment and our food. How do we decide what medications we should take and which one’s we shouldn’t? It’s helpful to define what medication means in our...
Educate Your Oncologist: High-Dose Vitamin C + Chemotherapy/Immunotherapy
The ultimate goal of cancer treatment requires two components: To kill cancer cells AND preserve normal cells. Our traditional healthcare system seems to have a good handle on the first part, but has ignored the second component. This can be explained by a few...
Educate Your Oncologist: What Vitamin D Level is Normal and Is Normal Good Enough?
Vitamin D acts as a hormone that helps everything from gut function to immune response to bone and joint strength. Adequate (or inadequate) levels affect your muscles, your bones, your nerves, and your immune system. If you feel tired, achy, sick or have low mood...
Educate Your Oncologist: Curcumin (Turmeric) + Chemotherapy
If you bring curcumin (turmeric) as a recommendation to a traditional oncologist, they may say that it can interfere with chemotherapy. If this is the response you receive, ask them to send you a few articles that led them to that conclusion. Although your oncologist...
Can I Change My Risk of Cancer OR am I a Victim of My Genes?
The traditional view for which the healthcare system is built upon is that genes cause disease. We now know that this view is limited and makes us feel that we have no control over our health. This view also does not provide the positive health outcomes we want as a...
What’s as Important as Protein When it Comes to Cancer-Fighting Nutrition?
There are 3 basic ways your body excretes wastes and gets rid of things you either don’t need or are harmful to your health (toxins, excess vitamins, etc): Sweating Bowel Movements Urination FIBER is the key to healthy bowel movements. It pushes food through your...
When Your Brain and Body are Overtired, Check Your Adrenals
Recently, a lot of our friends and acquaintances in the community have been sharing unexpected changes in their bodies. They have trouble sleeping, feel anxious for no reason and have aches or pains without any major changes associated with these symptoms. One of the...
Why Limit Resolutions to a Year? How to Make Diet Resolutions Last a Lifetime
I recently read You Can’t Screw This Up by Adam Bornstein, which presents some great research on diet resolutions, why they don’t last and how to make them work for you. There are many wellness experts who are great at providing that dopamine rush to get you to try...