I help moms suffering from years of gut issues, stress, and feeling tired to finally understand their symptoms, eat the foods they haven’t been able to eat in years, and feel as energetic as they did before having kids and busy careers
Halloween can be a time of excitement and anticipation for children, and outside of dressing in costume, one of the key highlights is often the delicious candy they collect while trick-or-treating. As parents, we may be entering into a controversial space here: should we let Read more…
Did you catch our article on the stress response and how being stuck in it all the time is a root driver of poor health? What we didn’t mention there was the role of the vagus nerve in this situation. This single nerve acts as a super highway, connecting the Read more…
What’s the single most significant root cause of symptoms and diagnoses that we see here in our FWT clientele? Without hesitation, our coaching team all agrees that it’s STRESS. While the human body is designed to weather episodic acute stress, we aren’t designed to be Read more…
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…
“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…
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 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…
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…
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…
We live in a world with a lot of misconceptions and, unfortunately, also a lot of stigma around eating disorders. Our culture has emphasized mental health imbalance as the cause of disordered eating (Control needs? Body image concerns? Self-punishment? Self-medication?), and use of behavioral health Read more…