We’ve become afraid of salt which leads to many people having low salt diets. We actually need salt in our diets in order for our bodies to function optimally. Cold extremities Dark urine Decrease skin turgor Decrease urine output Dry axilla and tongue Poor [...]
We can test hormones and see where the hormones are at but if we don’t have these five factors in place then we can take all the supplements, or synthetic or bioidentical hormones and we are not working on these five factors then we [...]
Let’s talk about fatty liver disease and fructose. Let’s start with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. It happens when a person consumes little to no alcohol and they still have a fatty liver. So, fat accumulates within their liver cells. This affects about a quarter [...]
Do we, as humans, need salt? The truth is that our body’s do need salt. Salt has always played a functional role in human health. Our cells are bathed in a salty fluid. Salt is needed to maintain the optimal amount of blood in [...]
We’ve been hearing a lot more about blue light and I want to talk about, first of all, what is blue light? We get expose to blue light from the sun, from technology including TV, computers, laptops, tablets, phones, also from fluorescent lights, and [...]
Let’s talk about ways to improve our deep sleep. Sleep hygiene is so important to our overall health. One of the reasons we want to improve deep sleep is because during our deep sleep our body activates the glymphatic drainage of the brain, so [...]
Let’s talk about FIVE signs of Insulin Resistance. I talk a lot about metabolic health and insulin resistance and some of the questions I’ve been getting is ‘how do I know if I have insulin resistance?’, ‘what are some of the signs that I [...]
First of all, what is insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is when our cells’ insulin receptors are not sensitive to insulin that is released from the pancreas in response to glucose or sugar, then they cannot allow glucose into the cells to make ATP or [...]
This is a question I often get asked in my practice. Many people are still under the impression that saturated fats are bad for you, that they cause heart disease, that saturated fats will cause high cholesterol levels and high cholesterol causes heart disease. [...]
Resistant starches are starchy foods that are metabolized differently. Resistant starches are foods that do not get broken down and goes into the intestines, turned into short chain fatty acids by the intestinal bacteria, acts like fiber and feeds the healthy bacteria. Ie. Cooked [...]
