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 […]
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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 […]
Food Hierarchy
A food hierarchy is a great way to reduce the time and energy it takes trying to figure out what to eat to maintain healthy body composition. Eating according to our established food hierarchy is a daily habit that will help us build a winning health routine. The first category of food in my food […]
Accumulate Lean Muscle Mass not Inflammation
Lean muscle mass is essential to health and vitality, in fact, it is the number one biological marker of aging. The more muscle you have on your body, the less likely you are to succumb to all manner of dysfunction, infection, cancer, and autoimmunity. This is why we want to improve our capacity to live […]
Mold Illness: One Woman’s Story
A couple of years back I had a young mother of three come in complaining of severe depression, fatigue, and extreme muscle weakness. Little did she know that she was suffering from mold illness. She lived on a farm and just going outside to watch her husband mow the fields or feed the animals would […]
The Benefits of Sun Exposure
The first thing that comes to mind when most of us think about the benefits of sun exposure is Vitamin D. Well, have I good news for you. Those sun rays are doing so much more than just increasing your vitamin D synthesis. Yes, as you are likely well aware, vitamin D is a huge […]
Soy Lectins: To eat or not to eat?
Lectins continue to be all the rage in nutrition but are soy lectins contributing to health or havoc in the body? Many whole foods are loaded with lectins. Unfortunately, these proteins we call lectins that bind to carbohydrates promote a state of leaky gut which allows undigested food particles, intestinal bacteria, and toxins to enter the […]
Vegetables: A High-Volume Low-Calorie Food for Food Addiction
If you are trying to switch to a whole food way of eating but find yourself hungry all of the time, try adding a high-volume, low-calorie food called vegetables. Hunger or food addiction? Many times when you feel hungry, it’s not true hunger, it’s just your nervous system that’s in your digestive tract letting you […]
Why Does Functional Strength Training Matter?
Why does functional strength training matter and why is it called functional strength training or resistance training? It’s called strength training because it makes you stronger and more capable of overcoming life resistance. Strength training for youth and vitality Who doesn’t want an increased capacity for doing life and living out the full number of […]
How to grow broccoli sprouts
Want to keep simple infections from turning into serious infections? Start increasing glutathione levels by learning how to grow broccoli sprouts. Researchers at UCLA found that by eating broccoli sprouts that a person could increase their levels of glutathione s transferase also known as GST remarkably. GST or glutathione s transferase is responsible for taking […]
