Who wants to age well, and live a disease-free life? Well, don't raise your hands all at once! In a perfect world, everyone would age well and rid themselves of the ailments that chronic disease tends to bring with it on its destructive path. Of course that scenario seems a little too ideal to be possible, but guess what? It IS attainable with proper knowledge and choices. If you want to age well and waive goodbye to chronic disease, then you need to focus on two words: Inflammation and Oxidation. Inflammation: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly So, you might ask, what exactly is … [Read more...]
If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Get Out of the Kitchen!
The New Year is almost here and wouldn’t we like to do exactly that, get out of the kitchen, right? So many of us with food limitations and special requirements find the kitchen a challenging place to be. We get so tired of the hours we spend figuring out what we can eat, scouring cookbooks for recipes that will work for us, and deciding what kind of kitchen equipment in which to invest. Here are four of my favorite solutions to our kitchen dilemma: Take the stress out of getting nutritious and delicious food on the table. Real Plans creates a custom plan to suit your family’s size, … [Read more...]
Sleep Your Way to Health
Let’s face it. Many of us find sleep a real challenge. If you have an autoimmune disorder your circadian rhythms may be off, and hormone issues can wreak havoc with getting a good night’s sleep. But that doesn’t mean we can give up on sleep. We all need to make it a number one priority in our self-nurturing program. Here are a couple of resources about sleep that I think you’ll find interesting and helpful. Russell Foster is a sleep expert who studies the role sleep plays in our lives and how our sleep-wake rhythms are affected by our perception of light. Click on the link below … [Read more...]
The “Fight or Flight” Loop: Are YOU Stuck In This Cycle?
There are many self-perpetuating physiological cycles in the body that can keep a person in a diseased state, despite their best efforts with diet, exercise, and lifestyle. It takes clinical experience and a deep understanding of human biology to know how to break such cycles. One of the more common self-perpetuating cycles I see in my practice involves the stress loop. That shouldn’t be surprising. We live in a very stressful time and society. We wear busyness like a badge, are surrounded by foods and toxins that are chronic stressors on our bodies, and many of us have some sort of trauma … [Read more...]
When Do YOU Get to Be the Doctor?
When you’ve been diagnosed with thyroid disease or fibromyalgia or autoimmune disorder or any other chronic illness, you feel like you’ve been smacked upside the head, right? On top of feeling lousy for what seems like forever, now you’ve got all sorts of people telling you what to do and what not to do. Talk about feeling out of control and powerless! But there still is one area in your life where YOU get to be the doctor. One area where YOU are the one in control. One area where YOU, are the one in power. And the truth is that this area is just as or maybe even more important to your … [Read more...]
