Traveling on an Elimination Diet – How to Keep Your Sanity!
But what about our myriad dietary requirements – serious snag or ‘s-no problem? Read on to find out! Learn why an Elimination Diet is a fundamental…
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4 Post Hurricane Health Tips
If you have been through a hurricane, flood or other severe weather event, we hope you and your loved ones came through unscathed, and with minimal property damage. We know not everyone has been so lucky. Health may seem a luxury, compared with the realities of losing a home, precious possessions, food shortages, and contaminated water. Survival takes priority for a time.
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Methylation and Bone Health
Bone is not a static entity in our body. Our body is continually actively forming bone, as well as breaking it down—a process called bone remodeling.
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Make it App-en! Our Favorite Apps to Support Your Health Goals
In today’s ever-connected world, we love to use technology to help us reach our health goals. If it’s something that will simplify a task or make our…
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Want Great Skin? Eat This, Not That!
At our practice, we see lots of folks with challenging skin conditions. The one commonality among all of them? Diet!
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Counteracting the Negative Effects of too Much Homocysteine
Beyond methylation support, what can we do to mitigate the effects of too much homocysteine? While you’re working on bringing an elevated homocysteine down.
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Manuka Honey: For Skin Ailments, Wounds and More
If you’ve noticed an increasing number of drugstores and cosmetic products touting the benefits of Manuka honey, the odds are you are not alone. A number..
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The Safest Cookware Choices for You and Your Family
Not all cookware is considered safe by Functional Medicine standards. Read on to find out which products can leach toxins into your food (and should be..
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Your Complete Guide to Hydration
Phew, summer is hot! Proper hydration is ALWAYS important, but even more so when the weather heats up or when we’re doing aerobic exercise. Read on…
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Reversing Cognitive Decline: Not Beyond Our Reach
It is plain myth that there is nothing that can be done to prevent, slow or even reverse the progress of cognitive decline or Alzheimer’s Disease. We just..
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How to Get the Most EGCG from Your Green Tea
Green tea is a known superfood, primarily for its EGCG content. But did you know that there is huge variation between the content of EGCG in different brands of green te
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Our “6R” Gut Program: Six Steps to Save Your Health Through Your Gut
Have you tried everything to heal your gut? Or, are you just getting by with a chronic condition like an autoimmune disorder, eczema, or arthritis? Maybe you’ve “gone Paleo,” made buckets of bone broth, said “sayonara” to sugar and gluten, and made friends with sauerkraut. You might have a stockpile (or cabinet!) of digestive enzymes, vitamins, herbs and probiotics… Yet, you are not much better off.
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Organic vs Conventional: Do the Differences Matter?
A recent write up of systematic reviews (among the highest grades of scientific evaluation) confirmed previously-reported differences between conventional..
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A Functional Approach to Asthma and Allergic Sinusitis
[Additionally, (and off topic) but an important point none-the-less, I am very concerned about the chronic use of antihistamines in my allergic patients…
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Food-Disease Connections and the Elimination Diet, with Tom Malterre and Romilly Hodges
If you want to understand the fundamental principles of Functional Medicine, the Elimination Diet is one of the top tools to wrap your head around. One of the most significant ways that we interact with our environment is through food, and how our body responds to different foods that we eat can be very significant.
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