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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…

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…

Are You a Revengeful Sleeper?

Are You a Revengeful Sleeper?

High-quality sleep is vital for both healing and sustained wellness. While the body appears from the outside to be still and inactive, sleep is a time when the body is quite busy. During the night, we restock our supply of hormones, process significant toxins including flushing Read more…

Is a Deficiency in this Corrosive Acid Wreaking Havoc in Your Body?

Is a Deficiency in this Corrosive Acid Wreaking Havoc in Your Body?

Many of us likely only think about stomach acid when something is wrong: reflux, heartburn, indigestion, and a reach into the medicine cabinet for something to tame the discomfort. It’s often around this time that we may blame our stomachs for producing too much acid.  Read more…

Did Somebody Say Chocolate?

February is American Heart Month, bringing attention to cardiovascular health. There are many risk factors for cardiovascular disease, including obesity, elevated blood pressure, smoking, and poor diet can all contribute to cardiovascular disease. Knowing risk factors can help us decrease the risk. And so can Read more…

The Surprising Ways  Antibiotics May Have Unknowingly Harmed Your Health

The Surprising Ways Antibiotics May Have Unknowingly Harmed Your Health

Jocelyn learned her chronic arthritis was associated with a persistent, simmering intestinal Prevotella overgrowth and resulting food sensitivities, which seemed to start after she took antibiotics for two weeks.  Frank thought he had a UTI, and while waiting for his labwork to come back, took a course Read more…

Fish Oil, Omega-3s, and Inflammatory Balance: What Researchers Have Explored Since COVID-19

Fish Oil, Omega-3s, and Inflammatory Balance: What Researchers Have Explored Since COVID-19

Editor’s Note (2026): This article was originally inspired by conversations happening during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, when research was rapidly evolving. It has been updated to reflect a more nuanced understanding of nutrition science, inflammatory physiology, and immune health. Over the past Read more…

Getting Salty

Getting Salty

My clients often hear me say, “Eat the rainbow,” and this is just as true for salt as it is for fruits and veggies.  When we hear “sodium,” we typically think NaCl, or sodium chloride, the stripped down, stark white, barebones version commonly used as Read more…