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:
Romilly Hodges, CNS CKNS CDN IFMCP mBANT CNHC, is a clinical nutritionist and Programs Director for Dr. Kara Fitzgerald.
Romilly has written peer-reviewed publications, book contributions and many online articles. She is the author of the book Immune Resilience; The Breakthrough Plan to Protect Your Body and Fight Disease published in 2022 by Avery, a division of Penguin Random House. She has contributed to professional training courses and supervised practice programs for functional medicine and nutrition professionals. Romilly has also worked in clinical research, including designing the study diet for the first-of-its-kind epigenetic diet study run through the National University of Natural Medicine, as well as follow-up clinical research. She currently serves on the Board of the Accreditation Council for Nutrition Professional Education.
We have both the opportunity and responsibility to change the trajectory of chronic disease through targeted, personalized nutrition, lifestyle and environmental interventions.
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
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? Read on for our extensive list of intestinal barrier modulators, and find out why we don’t think of leaky gut as an ON or OFF state.
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.
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.
An Introduction to Nutrigenomics with Jessica Pizano MS CNS
Nutrigenomics is a growing area of functional medicine and nutrition, and part of the ongoing movement towards increasing personalization of healthcare. Nutrigenomics can play an important role in uncovering metabolic barriers that may be driving symptoms, or risk factors for certain diseases, that may be addressed through diet and lifestyle.
Food Fears and a Little Compromise
Do you have any food fears? Yesterday, a lovely friend of mine told me that she refused to buy her daughter cherries, despite her daughter pleading for them for weeks.
Methylation: A New Look
It’s time to rethink how we support methylation.
Fragrant Spiced Rice
Tantalize your taste buds and give your cells a boost with this fragrant, delicious spiced rice. I am always looking for good ways to add flavor, as well as nutrient superfoods, and plain ol’ rice is an excellent place to take advantage of all that these spices and herbs have to offer.
Spicy Ginger-Lemon Tea
This is a tea to knock your socks off and give you get-up-and-go! The kick from the Cayenne pepper is amazing, and folks we know have used this drink to reduce or abandon their coffee habit. These ingredients are great for dampening inflammation, they have anti-microbial, anti-oxidant, anti-cancer, and detoxifying properties. They also protect our…