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5 Tips to Support Your Liver

The liver serves a vital function in almost every system in your body; from hormone and digestive enzyme production to blood filtration and the last stop in chemical digestion of medications. It makes cholesterol and triglycerides, important components of hormone production. The liver is both an endocrine organ (an organ that produces substances for use in the body, like IGF1) and exocrine organ (produces... [Read more]

Which Seafood is Good for Your Brain & the Environment?

We’ve all heard how wonderful omega-3 fats are for our health. They have tons benefits, including: Preventing fatal erratic heart rhythms Reducing inflammation Making up cell membranes throughout the body, especially the eye, brain and sperm cells Preventing cardiovascular disease and stroke Easing depression According to Dr. Mark Hyman, author of Ultrametabolism, research suggests... [Read more]

Satisfying a Sweet Tooth

No willpower when it comes to sweets? You are not alone! We all crave sweet foods. Here’s why: our tongues have a large amount of sweet taste buds, and they demand to be satisfied. So how can we satisfy a sweet tooth without resorting to Ding Dongs, Twinkies or our old pals Ben and Jerry? One strategy that works beautifully for my clients is adding naturally sweet foods to their diets everyday.... [Read more]

Turn Up the Heat on Your Exercise Routine

If anyone had ever told me I’d be practicing yoga on a regular basis, and loving it, several years ago I would have told them it was not enough of a challenge for me.  The classes I had experienced were either too slow or too boring and I just couldn’t get still.  People (I was among them) would come in and out of class and I would be watching everyone else to see if I was doing the posture correctly. ... [Read more]

The Great Candy Heist

I love this time of year.  The leaves are turning, the weather couldn’t be better for being outside, not too hot and not too cold.  The children are deciding what to be for Halloween, there will be pumpkin carving, fall festivals and lots of candy corns.  Plus if you go to Chipotle dressed to kill as a horrifying processed food item after 6pm on Halloween you can buy a burrito, burrito bowl, salad... [Read more]

Mom-Me Time

With school in session for nearly a month, I am finally starting to reclaim some much needed “me” time.  I failed to build much of that in this past summer and while we had fun, lots of it, I realized about seven weeks in that I had not made much time for myself to simply do what I need to do recharge.  Then there were only a few weeks left until we were seriously getting ready for back-to-school. Lazy... [Read more]