The Weird Hack That Gets More Vitamin D Out Of Your Food, Naturally
You’ve likely heard a lot about vitamin D lately.
Help! Which Fats Does My Body Need?
Fat is making a comeback! The “diet” and “low fat” craze has started to abate.
Non-Drug Strategies for Pain Management
Many people to turn to complementary therapies as part of their pain management repertoire.
Should We Still Be Flossing?
The press has been abuzz lately with headlines proclaiming that there does not appear to be any strong evidence that flossing helps prevent tooth decay or gum disease.
How to Practice Functional Medicine – Here’s an Introduction (with a case example)
Practicing Functional Medicine (the clinical application of Systems Medicine) entails casting a wide net with regard to an individual’s history and physical exam to look for the underlying causes of their present complaints
Apple Cider Vinegar: Folk Remedy to Science-Based Functional Food?
Is apple cider vinegar (ACV) an effective treatment to control blood sugar, reduce cholesterol levels, and promote weight loss?
Good Food, Good Sex and A Long Healthy Life!
Does one small Italian village in Italy hold the key to the fountain of youth? Could it be as simple as healthy eating and lots of sex?
Hazelnut Fig Rolls
The hazelnuts, for example, which are rich in nutrients including minerals, good fatty acids and antioxidants…
Emotional Healing with Inner Bonding (and Free eCourse)
Fundamental to Functional Medicine is careful consideration of the mental, emotional and spiritual status of ourselves and our patients. Inner Bonding is a rather remarkable process that effectively and relatively quickly clears away emotional debris keeping us from healing. What…
Toothpaste Selection: The Best Commercial Brands for Your Needs
Not only are there certain toothpaste ingredients we would all do well to avoid, we can also look for the right toothpaste for our own unique oral health situation:
Watch Out for This New Practice That Can Undermine Your Health Food Choices
Choosing between visual image of food items using finger touch (e.g. on an ipad) can prompt pleasure-seeking brain messages to overpower those rational, health-seeking ones, according to new research
Surprising Ways to Build Muscle and Reduce Blood Sugar – No Exercise Involved!
But some recent studies have concluded that mental imagery can actually make your muscles stronger.
6 Things You Need to Know About Marketing Yourself as a Practitioner
Online marketing is an opportunity to engage, converse and create a name for your legacy
Expanding Our View on Leaky Gut: Beyond the ON/OFF Idea
What’s in your leaky gut protocol? Perhaps it’s time to expand beyond basic diet and 4/5-R supplements… did you know that many more factors influence permeability, including specific food bioactive compounds, hormones, microbes, antigens, additives, pesticides, mold, and lifestyle practices?…
Methylation – What’s All the Fuss?
If you or anyone you know has a history of heart disease, depression, Alzheimer’s disease, ADHD, diabetes, insomnia or autism, these are just some of the conditions that have been linked to faulty methylation.
What’s Your Natural, Restorative, Ahhhhhh Environment?
Nature is immediately captivating, but equally relaxing.
Common Food Additive Implicated in Food Allergy
In animal studies, tBHQ has been shown to promote a key step in the development of food allergy.
Breast Wellness by Dr. Elizabeth W. Boham
This is why I developed the DVD Breast Wellness: Tools to Prevent and Heal from Breast Cancer with my friend and yoga / meditation instructor Heidi Spear.
Reduce Sugar in Processed Food by Replacing with Fungi?
Look, I am all for reducing the amount of sugar found in processed foods. But this new product– pending approval in the US (already approved elsewhere) is actually bitter-taste receptor-blocking fungi (myceliu