What do digestive problems and the vagus nerve have to do with each other? Do you have digestive complaints? Do you feel like food just goes right through you? Do you feel like your meal sits like a rock in your stomach? Are gas and bloating a regular part of your life? Are you also running a […]
Category: Eating Habits
Is Phytic Acid Bad For You?
If you have been around the paleo community or keto community for the last 20 years, you have probably been schooled on the horror of consuming phytic acid-rich foods. What is phytic acid anyways? Phytic acid is essentially the storage form of phosphorus in the plant. Phytic acid is found in abundance in grains, seeds, […]
What Are Superfoods?
Superfoods claim to have superpowers like turning back our biological clock, giving us glowing skin and overcoming and preventing cancer, not to mention energy and vitality. The only problem with this standard super food idea, is that most super foods are super foods based off of a new marketing scheme. Their superiority is narrowly focused […]
Dairy: A1 vs A2 Milk
A1 vs A2 milk. What’s the difference? Americans consume 655 pounds on average of dairy per year. That is a lot of dairy. So what kind of milk should we be consuming? One of the first things we need to do is to determine whether or not the dairy we are consuming is from A1 or […]
Goat Whey Recipes
Want to save calories and carbs? Try goat whey in your recipes. You can use goat whey in more than just smoothies. You can also use it as a substitute for flour in baked goods. Activ Goat Whey Protein is a highly digestible, non-denatured, low allergy whey protein food from goat milk. Blended Protein Cold Brew […]
Setting Food Boundaries For Kids
The reason we as parents need to set food boundaries for kids is to train them to be conscious eaters. We want them to understand that there is a difference between the food that sustains us (i.e breakfast, lunch and dinner) and snacks or desserts. Desserts are for celebration. My mother-in-law was recently in town and […]
How plastics disrupt hormone balance
Plastics have an especially detrimental effect on our hormonal system or endocrine system. They disrupt the metabolism of hormone-mimicking estrogens causing excess and an imbalance of estrogen activity. How plastics disrupt hormone balance and how it may manifest If you are a man and your libido is shot, motivation is lost and you feel like […]
Eating Together as a Family
Did you know that eating together as a family is validated by scientific research and greatly increases the capacity of your child and even yourself to thrive in all aspects of life? This is the opposite of the average American who eats one in every five meals in their car or the one in four Americans that eats at […]
A Roadblock to Health: The All-or-Nothing Paralysis
A common roadblock to health is an all-or-nothing paralysis. Just think would you tell your child to quit playing basketball because they don’t dribble the ball well or they don’t always see the open teammate? Of course not. The same applies to our health. Maybe you want to lose 5 lbs a week but you […]
Drinking Water Does Not Equal Hydration
I can’t tell you how many people have come to me drinking a gallon or more of water per day yet they look like a shriveled-up prune or raisin. Then as soon as they decrease their water intake and start clearing stress, fixing sleep or digestive issues, and substituting in whole foods for pseudo foods […]