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The importance of keeping a food diary
Whether you want to lose weight or manage an autoimmune disease, studies show keeping a food diary is one of the best ways to ensure success. For instance, diet research shows those who keep a food diary lose 30 to…
Circadian Integrity
Are you one of those people who wishes the work day started 11 a.m. so you can go to bed late and sleep in? Staying up late keeps you caught up with David Letterman but puts you at odds with…
Why eating breakfast prevents weight gain and fatigue
Breakfast is the easiest meal to skip—mornings are rushed and many people don’t have an appetite when they wake up. Some people even feel nauseous in the morning (which indicates a blood sugar disorder). But if you skip breakfast you…
Does Positive Thinking Work?
Does Positive Thinking Work? When a chronic health issue has you feeling like crud, few things are more insulting than someone telling you to “keep your chin up” or “think positive.” Such advice sounds like a brush-off from someone who…
The 5R Program and Safe Natural Medicine Protocols
Patients with autoimmune and chronic diseases tend to suffer from a range of root‐cause conditions, including blood sugar imbalance, hidden infection, methylation defects, dysbiosis, and specific vitamin and enzyme deficiencies. Because of these underlying problems, patients must often go beyond…
What is MTHFR and why does it matter?
If you read the latest health news, you may have seen the acronym MTHFR popping up a lot recently. MTHFR stands for methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase, an enzyme that plays a role in processing the nutrient folic acid/folate into a form the…
Treating Chronic Disease with the Autoimmune Paleo Template
The Paleo Autoimmune Protocol Everyone who is following the Paleo movement knows that the Autoimmune Protocol (the AIP) is a more refined form of the basic Paleo Diet. The terms autoimmune paleo, the autoimmune protocol. The Paleo Autoimmune Protocol, The…
Protect your body from disease with glutathione
Modern life inflicts constant assaults on our bodies in the way of industrialized foods, environmental toxins, chronic stress, lack of sleep, and even electromagnetic frequencies (EMFs) from cell phones and computers. Our best defense to protect health is to shore…
Tips to Stabilize Blood Sugar
Tips to Stabilize Blood Sugar 1. Do not skip breakfast. 2. Eat a high quality protein based breakfast. 3. Eat every 2-3 hours. 4. Snack on protein 5. Avoid straight fruit juice-dilute or better yet-dilute & blend on high with water…
10 reasons why your Hashimoto’s may not be improving
For some, managing autoimmune Hashimoto’s is as easy as going gluten-free. For others, it requires trial and error to find the triggers. And for those with severe or multiple autoimmune disorders, symptom management requires a conscious, lifelong approach to diet…