Improving your sleep can mean so much in terms of your health, happiness, hormones, and overall life quality. Ever since I was a child I can remember personally struggling with insomnia, and not being able to get enough or a deep enough sleep. As a teenager and young adult I would struggle to even fall …
Despite the efforts of promoting low fat diets and “heart healthy” vegetables oils since the 1970s, heart disease and obesity is still at an all time high. Why? The idea that consuming saturated fat and cholesterol in our diet, raises the cholesterol in our blood, which leads to clogged arteries and heart disease, is only …
PUFAs = PolyUnsaturated Fatty Acids PUFAs are found in industrial seed/vegetable oils– which are what is primarily used in packaged foods. Seeds and vegetables have to be highly processed to refine them into an actual oil. Until it was discovered that there was profit to be made off of these cheap oils during the …
Why is my metabolism important? How is metabolism linked to my health struggles? Does that mean you can eat whatever you want and stay “skinny”? Doesn’t it just slow down with age unless we diet and exercise? Does that just mean I need more “will- power”? What does this have to do with my painful …
Physical health and well-being is the foundation to living our best lives. When we feel well, we do better in all aspects of what we do. Making the decision to make better choices may be an easy one- but where to begin is what can be difficult. We as a society didn’t get this way …
Hormones. They are so easy to blame for everything because they are responsible for so many things. Hormones regulate everything our bodies do on a daily basis. You can think of hormones as information and instructions that get transported all around the body helping to maintain homeostasis. They regulate the metabolism, our sleep-wake cycle, …
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One of the most important things I learned while studying with the Nutritional Therapy Association was that most symptoms and conditions could always be traced back to balancing what we called “the foundations”. When the foundations are improved, so is everything else! When we start giving our bodies what it needs, our innate intelligence will …