Why you should know your reverse T3
Read this and ensure your thyroid function get evaluated properly.
Why you should know your reverse T3
Read this and ensure your thyroid function get evaluated properly.
Bad-Better-Best: Is Butter Bad?
I’m starting a series of quick posts that cover easy modifications you should consider when eating. Today’s is one of the simplest. Choose the right butter! Want more information on WHY you shouldn’t eat butter or margarine, only pasture butter or ghee? Check out...
Update on Fats: 2017
Since I first posted this in 2013, we’ve gotten even more research, especially about saturated fats, and the news is good: they help decrease heart disease and they truly help inflammation. Here is the latest: You need fats. Do NOT try and lose weight by...
How to survive Holiday Parties
Have you lost weight and want it to stay off? Are you actively trying to lose weight… or, are you a good weight but don’t want the upcoming months, holidays and winter to add on the post-holiday ten pounds? One of the hardest things is...
Illness and Childhood Trauma
Make sure you tell your physician if you’ve had childhood trauma. Ongoing adversity in childhood leads to a chronic state of “fight, flight or freeze.” Researchers at Yale recently demonstrated that when inflammatory stress hormones flood a child’s body and brain, they alter the genes...
The Essence of Functional Medicine
Because I am a nurse, I know a lot of people in the medical community and as they learn my story and I get healthier, I’ve often been asked what functional medicine is. This image below sums up completely what a patient’s experience with functional...
10 Days, 10 Ways to Lower Carbs, Day 10
Ok, Day 10 of 10! For my “finale” (thank God, this has been hard to post 10 days in a row!), I’ll talk about supplements to add to your regimen and some general guidelines and links to articles that I think have important information about...
10 Days, 10 Ways to Lower Carbs, Day 9
Today is simple. The next time you want to reach for potato chips, try one of these low carb snack alternatives! In general, I’ve avoided cheese because I don’t eat dairy. You can add cheese in small amounts if you can tolerate dairy. The key...
10 Days, 10 Ways to Lower Carbs, Day 8
Condiment Caution! It may seem negligible, but ketchup can sabotage you! Hiding behind it’s pretty red “I’m a vegetable” mask is actually a food that has a fair number of carbs. Let’s look at condiments, some of the common ones. Everybody knows jam and jelly...
10 Days, 10 Ways to Lower Carbs, Day 8
Condiment Caution! It may seem negligible, but ketchup can sabotage you! Hiding behind it’s pretty red “I’m a vegetable” mask is actually a food that has a fair number of carbs. Let’s look at condiments, some of the common ones. Everybody knows jam and jelly...
10 Days, 10 Ways to Lower Carbs: Day 7
Avoid, or at least be skeptical of anything labeled “non-fat”. This is the biggest scam around. We were taught, since the 1960’s that fat was to be avoided. Now that recent research has cleared that stinkin’ thinkin’ up, we still see recipes calling for low...
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