Ketones, BHB and inflammation.
We have all heard about the silent killer known as inflammation. What we are not clear on is how to eliminate it. What if I told you it was actually pretty simple? You see many people have jumped onto the ketogenic life-style train hoping to lose weight, burning fat...
This Is Your Brain On Ketones
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Is Bone Broth Considered Ketogenic?
Most of you know I'm a huge fan of bone broth, and yes eating straight up bone marrow. You would think would be completely fine on a ketogenic diet, until you look at the breakdown. You see I received a message concerned that since bone broth contains high levels of...
Looking into IBS-D
What is IBS-D? IBS or irritable bowel syndrome has a label for when we have chronic diarrhea or loose stool. This is where the D comes into play. Unfortunately many go undiagnosed by a family physician, yet the issues are very real. Let’s talk symptoms: Abdominal...
Getting Your Gut Back On Track With Butyrate
But your what??? Butyrate, it's a type of fatty acid that helps your gut work right, and it might be important for gut-related diseases from autoimmunity to obesity to colon cancer. Now that I have your attention... Let's talk about B hydroxy butyrate, what's it do...
Red Wine, A Story of Histamine Torture…
...but it doesn't have to be. Here's the deal, if you are anything like me you get a wicked headache after consuming red wine. It doesn't even need to be that much, but lets face it, if one glass is going to give me a headache I may as well have two (or three)....
Sunflower Lecithin, a supplement for everyone.
Why do I choose sunflower lecithin? (which comes from sunflowers by the way). It's a staple in pretty much every basic protocol I have. For both men and women with just about any and all health issues, this is one of those items that everyone should be looking into. I...
Cold Water and Weight Loss
Every once in a while I come across an old myth from the fitness industry that makes me chuckle. Someone took a tiny piece of barely accurate info and decided to make something of it. Recently I stumbled upon a classic- the cold water weight loss myth. "Drinking ice...
Resetting Your Digestive Function
We've all heard the buzz surrounding gut health, digestion is key and of course how important digestive enzymes are. As much as we are what we eat, we are also what we absorb and also what we digest. But what if we aren't digesting? Easy! We need to simply reset our...
Toss The Fat Burners
In my industry I see it daily, patients come into my office wanting to get off or stay away from pharmaceutical drugs, yet they have a medicine cabinet loaded with supplements. Umm…. whats the difference? We have a one size fits all multi-vitamin (useless), we have...
What You Don’t Know Could Poison You
Gluten Free, Rice Free? The Challenge Gluten free, corn free and now rice free? By now we have all heard about being gluten free either by fad, by choice or by necessity. Some of you may also know the dangers of switching to corn, especially GMO corn which can be...
Low Thyroid Protocol
What do you do if you feel like you may have low thyroid? It goes missed by so many. You visit your doctor and are told you are "fine", you are within range... But you know you are NOT fine. Let's take a peek at a few things you can do to be your own health advocate...