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Boost Vagal Function to Improve Chronic and Autoimmune Conditions

4/22/2020

Did you know that your stamina, gut health, blood sugar levels, heart rate variability, inflammation, emotional well-being, and even your ability to create lasting positive social connections, are all directly influenced by your vagus nerve? The vagus nerve is the longest nerve in the body. It connects the brain to many important organs including the heart, lungs, stomach, intestines, liver, and gallbladder. It’s involved in controlling the immune, cardiovascular, respiratory, and endocrine systems. As a major nerve of the parasympathetic system, the vagus nerve reflects your body’s ability to regulate inflammation, glucose, gut physiology, and heart rate.

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Your Thyroid May Not Be The Culprit After All

2/22/2020

It’s no secret that I am passionate about encouraging people to modify their nutrition to support their health. Food is where it all begins, and an area that we can control far more easily than other things that impact our health. Around 20 million Americans and 250 million people worldwide have low thyroid function or hypothyroidism. Women are up to eight times more than men. One in 8 women will struggle with a thyroid problem in her lifetime.

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Separating FAT from Fiction – Cholesterol, Statins, Saturated Fat & Your Health

1/22/2020

For the last 40 years the dietary instructions from governments and other authoritative bodies have told us that saturated fat is bad because it leads to clogged arteries, heart attacks and strokes. Americans took this message to heart and complied. Average fat consumption decreased, average blood cholesterol levels decreased but the rate of heart disease has continued to rise; the cost of its treatment has continued to rise, and, worst of all as of 2017, 30 million Americans have diabetes (~10% of the U.S. population), 84 million Americans have pre-diabetes, and we have an epidemic of obesity now afflicting over 93 million of the population.

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Is Histamine Intolerance the Culprit at the Core of your Health Condition?

4/14/2019

“Think of histamine intolerance like a bucket filling up with water. Everything is fine while the water is below the top of the bucket; however, as soon as the bucket overflows, serious problems can occur. Every person has a different sized “bucket”; the point of overflow and the appearance of symptoms is called a person’s limit of tolerance, and this level varies between individuals. So, why does the bucket overflow at all? It is because, for various reasons, histamine levels in the body can increase to a point that exceeds the body’s ability to remove the excess.” ~Dr. Janice Joneja

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Eat Your Way to Calm & Inner Peace: How to Overcome Anxiety with Diet

12/2/2018

The term—Watch what you eat!—is commonly in reference to weight gain and physical fitness, but what about in connection to the brain? Reality is, your diet has a direct affect on your brain and how it performs. While healthy foods promote beneficial reactions such as mental clarity and alertness, unhealthy foods can alter your mood, impair your thinking, and even trigger anxiety.

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Count Your Blessings & Be Healthy

11/2/2018

The Thanksgiving holiday is approaching, and that means we’re entering a season charged with brisk temperatures, crowded grocery store lines, and pumpkin spice everything. While this time of year lends beauty—with the trees’ foliage arrayed in spectacular colors—there also comes a busyness. The days get shorter and our to-do list gets longer. In our frenzied rush, we tend to neglect the most important things that fill our lives. Counting our blessings is not only a positive habit to form, but it also can improve our health.

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MTHFR Gene – Separating Fact from Hype

9/22/2018

It’s no secret that ancestry searches through personal DNA tests have been a hot topic over the past several years. If you’ve done any research on this current trend, there’s no doubt you’ve run across the controversial subject of the MTHFR gene. While there are hoards of conflicting information about the MTHFR gene, it’s important to dissect the fact from fiction.

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HPA Axis and How to Beat Excess Fatigue for Good

6/12/2018

Summer has begun, and with it comes extended daylight. For many people, these long days are brimming with vacations, parties, and other enjoyable events. While these activities are most certainly fun, there could also be an element of stress involved. How our bodies handle stress, whether big or small, is important to our well-being, and excessive stress can be problematic for our overall health. To get a better glimpse at how the body manages the triggers of stress, you must go to the source of it all—the HPA axis.

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Eat Your Way Out of Depression

6/8/2018

In many ways, the brain acts like a computer. It serves as a memory bank, an information database, and the central control station for the rest of the body. Just like the files downloaded on a computer can affect its performance, the foods partaken can alter the function of the mind.

Food affects your mood!
It’s important to be aware that your daily diet has a direct correlation to your brain and how it operates. Some foods are harmful and can even trigger mood disorders such as depression.Eat Your Way Out of Depression.

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Can Symptoms of Type 2 Diabetes Be Relieved Naturally?

6/6/2018

Diabetes, or hyperglycemia, is a condition in the body that causes the levels of glucose (a type of sugar made from the carbohydrates in the diet) to rise higher than normal.

Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes.
Type 2 diabetes, sometimes called adult-onset or noninsulin-dependent diabetes, is a metabolic disorder that affects the way the body handles glucose. If someone is diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, it means their body doesn’t use insulin properly. This is called insulin resistance. The root causes which could trigger type 2 diabetes are lifestyle related, usually developing because of several factors, including:

Poor diet
Obesity
Inactive lifestyle
High stress

5 Secrets For Maximizing Your Nutrition Blog Series – Part 1

4/4/2018

The quality of our nutrition consists of more than just the right balance of macronutrients or correct number of calories eaten. It is nutrient dense, not calorie scarce. It is a tool, not a punishment, and should provide our body with nourishment and energy it needs to function in at optimum level.
Focusing on filling our plate with an abundance of vibrant food with a colorful phytonutrients, vitamins and minerals is much more important than minimizing the number of calories or certain macronutrients we consume.

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Your Gut – The Epicenter of Your Mental and Physical Wellbeing

3/1/2018

The gut is literally the gateway to health.
There is no part of the body, no disease, no organ system – that the gut does not directly or indirectly affect. Studies have confirmed that not only does the gut transfer food to vital organs, but it plays a role in our physical health, mental health, emotional stability, immunology, neurology, endocrinology, and pathology.

Our Microbiome Are As Unique As Our Fingerprints
Our body is, in fact, a complex ecosystem made up of more than 100 trillion microbes (10 times the number of human cells!) that must be properly balanced and cared for if we are to be healthy.

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What If Your Body’s DNA Is Written In Pencil?

2/4/2018

Spiritual teachers have known for millennial that our body is programmable by language, words and thought. This has now been scientifically proven and explained.
DNA is an amazing molecule and is one of the great wonders of biology. During the 90’s, while western scientists focused on 5% of the DNA (ignoring the other 95% which they dimmed “Junk DNA”), a group of Russian scientists was formed to study the complete human genome. They refused to accept that such a huge majority of DNA could hold no research value.

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Shining A Light On The Sun Blog Series – Part 1

2/2/2018

The Most Overlooked Wellness Essential
The role sunlight plays in our health is a major factor in restoring optimal vitality. Sunlight – nature’s full-spectrum light – is the most overlooked wellness essential. Without the sun, there would be no life on this planet. Our physiology, metabolism, cognitive and emotional abilities are all affected by the sun’s activity. Research shows that our genes are programmed to respond to exposure to full spectrum light.

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Are You Sick or Just Thirsty? Blog Series – Part 1

1/7/2018

Most people do not look at water as a nutrient but it actually is. Water is undoubtedly the most important macro-nutrient and the only one whose absence will be lethal within days.
In my practice, the vast majority of my clients had been clearly chronically dehydrated when I first met them. No one, I mean absolutely no one, had bothered to inquire as to the nature of their daily water intake.

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