If your bacteria are healthy – you’re healthy. That’s right – the health of the giant mass of living micro-organisms in your large intestine (and on your skin, in your nasal cavity and everwhere) has an essential role to play in the health of your brain and nervous system, your liver, your immune system, andContinue reading “Getting Your Gut Right – Gut-Buddies”
Daily Archives: October 20, 2019
Multivitamins: Natural vs. Unnatural
For most people, buying a multivitamin is a one-size-fits-all way to cover your bases. It’s sort of a nutritional insurance policy. But are they really all they’re cracked up to be? I don’t think so. In my experience, the ingredients in the majority of multivitamins add a toxic load to the body and don’t doContinue reading “Multivitamins: Natural vs. Unnatural”
Animal vs. Veggies
WHY YOU DON’T ABSORB NUTRIENTS FROM PLANTS AND THAT’S OKAY You are an animal. You are a higher order of biology than the plant kingdom. By “order” I mean more metabolically and biochemically complex. Your body has to do more work to turn plant into animal than it does to turn animal into animal. MoreContinue reading “Animal vs. Veggies”
The Five Phases
Five Element or Five Phase Theory is something which many people are increasingly familiar with, whether they have a background in Chinese Medicine or not. It sometimes goes by the Wuxing (“Five Phase” in Chinese), and dates back to approximately 200 BC. The five phases are Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal. The phases areContinue reading “The Five Phases”