Author: Amy Spindel

Circadian Rhythms & Internal Body Clocks, & Why You Can’t Sleep

Circadian Rhythms & Internal Body Clocks, & Why You Can’t Sleep

Now that many of us are safely on the other side of the time change, we can enjoy the extra daylight hours a little more. And hopefully by now our circadian rhythms have also gotten with the program that our sleep-wake times have been shifted Read more…

Happy little hydrated cells

Happy little hydrated cells

Your body is made up of about 70% water. 70%! We lose water all the time and need to replenish it. But just because you’re drinking water doesn’t mean you’re automatically “hydrated.” Take this mini quiz to learn if you’re dehydrated… If you answered “yes” to Read more…

Dog Food is for Dogs

Dog Food is for Dogs

But fiber. That’s food for the gut microbiome. Fiber 101 We’ve all heard that we should get plenty of fiber from our diet every day to support heart health, healthy weight management, and gastrointestinal function. Despite these recommendations to eat a high-fiber diet, and many Read more…

Light Breaking Out of Darkness

Light Breaking Out of Darkness

“There Are Two Ways Of Spreading Light, To Be The Candle Or The Mirror That Reflects It.” Edith Wharton On this side of the hemisphere, as we creep out of the winter solstice, the days are slowly lengthening, the engulfing darkness is less so, and Read more…

How to Reject Diabetes & Metabolic Dysfunction

How to Reject Diabetes & Metabolic Dysfunction

From 1983 to 2008, the number of people in the world with diabetes increased sevenfold, from 35 to 240 million. In just the three years following (2008-2011), the number jumped to over 350 million. The majority of these diabetes diagnoses are for Type 2 Diabetes Read more…

What Your Liver Enzymes Are Trying to Tell You

What Your Liver Enzymes Are Trying to Tell You

The liver is an incredibly important organ. In fact, it is the second largest organ, following the skin. It’s a workhouse that’s responsible for hundreds of critical functions. Without a liver, human life would cease to exist. One of the major jobs of the liver Read more…

Giving Your Child The Tools to Be a Healthy Deviant in an Unhealthy World

Giving Your Child The Tools to Be a Healthy Deviant in an Unhealthy World

What does a happy, healthy child look like? It’s getting harder to see because our culture  presents us with an increasingly limited array of examples. This is the first generation that’s predicted to not outlive their parents. Roughly 30% of our children suffer from a Read more…

Baby’s Superfood: Using Breastmilk to Strengthen the Infant Gut

Baby’s Superfood: Using Breastmilk to Strengthen the Infant Gut

Breastfeeding popularity has ebbed and flowed over the last several decades, with August serving as an opportunity to highlight the importance of breastmilk. Research continues to shed light on just how essential breastmilk is for overall health, and as such, the World Health Organization now Read more…

The Role of Family Habits in Addressing Child Obesity

The Role of Family Habits in Addressing Child Obesity

Currently, a third of American kids – 1 in 3 children – are overweight or obese, and struggling with metabolic dysfunction (they have trouble turning glucose into energy, so it stores as fat tissue). Trending alongside childhood obesity are increasing rates of childhood T2D diagnoses. Read more…

Hypertension: A Not-So-Normal (Albeit Common) Part of Aging

Hypertension: A Not-So-Normal (Albeit Common) Part of Aging

High blood pressure, or hypertension, is the most important risk factor for premature death, accounting for half of all deaths caused by cardiovascular disease and 13.5% of all total deaths each year. Nine in ten Americans are expected to develop high blood pressure by the Read more…