While we all strive to have healthy, home-cooked meals on the table each night, there are times when just making it through the day feels like an achievement. It’s those days when frozen meals seem like a Godsend. Thaw, pop into the oven and you have a meal ready, without the fuss of ordering food…
Sepsis can be life-threatening, especially for anyone with a weakened immune system or a chronic illness. At a cost of almost $24 billion each year, sepsis has been named the most expensive in-patient cost in American hospitals as of 2014. Another scary statistic — 40 percent of patients diagnosed with severe sepsis die. Sepsis is said to kill 258,000…
A cornbread recipe that doesn’t use corn. Seems a little odd, right? Cornbread is a staple side dish for Thanksgiving, or it goes swimmingly with chili and hot cider. But many of my patients I encountered over the years as a functional medicine doctor could not tolerate or digest corn. That was the inspiration for…
For a country obsessed with losing weight, spending more than $60 billion a year trying to shed pounds, Americans are failing miserably. Even though we know the health risks that come with being too overweight, almost 78 million adults and 13 million children are obese — that’s one in three adults. (1, 2) It’s obvious…
It’s not uncommon today for people to carry around small bottles of hand sanitizer wherever they go, wash their hands deliberately throughout the day, and scrub produce squeaky clean. Although many of us have been led to believe that all germs are potentially dangerous — and that the cleaner our diets, bodies and environments stay,…
[Below is my transcript of my video on natural remedies for thyroid health, along with supplemental information on the topic.] What I'm going to share with you today are natural remedies for thyroid health. There are more people than ever before that are struggling with hypothyroidism, Hashimoto's disease, hyperthyroidism and Grave's disease. If you…
It's become common knowledge that soda is bad for you for a variety of reasons, including because of its high sugar and calorie content. If you're someone who likes to switch things up from drinking plain water, what is the healthiest bottled drink to opt for in place of regular soda? "Functional soda" makes a…
With quite a history dating back thousands of years to traditional Chinese medicine, mandarin is known to be the sweetest and the most calming of all citrus essential oils. Why? Mandarin essential oil is very mild and known for many healing properties. For instance, mandarin essential oil is useful in helping reduce acne, brighten the skin,…
A2 milk has gained popularity in recent years as a healthier alternative to traditional cow’s milk, largely due to its potential to be easier to digest. While regular milk contains both A1 and A2 beta-casein proteins, A2 milk is specifically produced to contain only the A2 protein. This has raised interest in A2 milk's possible…
Functional foods have been extensively investigated in the health and nutrition field, and they continue to be at the forefront of new research on how nutrition affects all aspects of human health. In fact, research has shown over and over that a diet that includes plenty of functional foods is one of the best protectors…
