There is no one size fits all. Though there is one size fits YOU. For now, let’s discuss two ways of eating and tease out the take-home concepts that may help in your health, healing, and life-gevity. Anti-inflammatory Diets Two well-studied anti-inflammatory diets are the Mediterranean diet and the diet of the Okinawan people. The Mediterranean diet centers around more protein and fats like olive oil while the Okinawans consume more carbohydrates in the form of root vegetables than protein....
The path here was not linear. My love of science, the body, and its miraculous design fuels the drive to learn. A curiosity to view healthcare through a different lens led me to functional medicine and epigenetics. This informed the path to helping my own body heal, and in turn my purpose of helping others heal. My body has been sending messages all along. I’m getting better at listening, and giving thanks for its persistence.
Your body needs more than a good hand-washing. What is immunity and how do we get to a place with a strong immune system? It’s a complex question with multi-faceted answers, but let’s keep it simple. There are proven primers to boost the immune system. These involve components of food, herbs & botanicals, superfoods, Many of these primers have been known a long time, and some have been highlighted through the research of the novel coronovirus (C*vid-19). If you’re...
History Informs the Mystery Thinking back to March of 2020, the quick response to mobilize a country, and a world, out of our cars, away from people, and into our homes, that was quite a feat. This makes me ponder how far-reaching our efforts could be to mobilize around other aspects of our lives when our health is at stake. Why were some unaffected when infected? How do some bodies clear the virus and others cannot? What natural and...
Doc Brown from the movie Back to the Future might have offered Marty the advice to “skip over 2020”! We have not yet invented time-travel to bring us out of this gravelly experience, nor can we travel to a different realm (not most of us, anyway). We’ve embarked on new territory, together yet separate, and altogether changed. Can we bring curiosity with the changes? I wonder what opportunities would be lost without having gone through these personal, communal, national,...
The Silver Bullet Will Be a Microbullet (Microbiome). Will a Vaccine Save Us?This monumental moment is asking each one of us some deep and lingering questions. Instead of where do we go from here, allow your curiosity to ponder where do I go from here? Not selfish “I” — I as part of the collective. While there is a search for a vaccine, I encourage us all to stay informed about whether a vaccine is going to be the...
