Keeping blood sugar within a certain range is important for everyone! And as we start to lose our hormones (both men and women), keeping blood sugar in check becomes more challenging. One big reason is we lose muscle as we lose estrogen and testosterone. And muscle is an important metabolic organ and regulator. But why […]
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The gut isn’t leaky because of food sensitivities. You have food sensitivities because the gut is leaky. Think about that for a minute. It’s NOT the food.Food sensitivity testing is one of my least favorite tests. Surprised? Well here’s why. If the results comes back with a lot of sensitivities, it’s just pointing a finger
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The most powerful tool you have to transform and keep your health, is your fork! Use it well and you’ll have a much better chance of thriving longer and better! I find that the less often a person uses their fork, the more likely they’re consuming foods that are highly processed and convenient. Your fork
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Our bones are our framework. They hold us up. They allow us to move. Their health dictates our overall well-being AND how we age. Bone loss is silent until it’s not. It’s silent until we start experiencing small fractures, falls, or broken hips. And it often starts once a women moves into her menopausal years, around age
There are a lot of reasons why the adage of “eat less, move more” doesn’t work and here’s one of them.Two meals with the same number of calories can create very different insulin and glucose responses. The top breakfast spikes glucose, which causes a large amount of insulin to come marching
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Over the past years, I’ve talked about the food and lifestyle changes that lower insulin and blood glucose levels.And just in case we forget, here’s a refresher of why this is so important… both elevated insulin and glucose levels can cause weight gain, inflammation, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart attacks and stokes, Alzheimer’s, and cancer.
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In your early 40s, estrogen can start to wildly fluctuate, then markedly decline in your late 40s to early 50s and then become basically non-existent in menopause. Some of the more well known signs indicating your estrogen is LOW are things like, night sweats, hot flashes, poor memory, sleep disruptions, incontinence, weight gain (especially around
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It’s been over six decades since the low fat, low cholesterol narrative took hold. It’s been four decades since statins were introduced as standard of care to prevent heart attacks but I don’t think we’ve gotten it quite right. I mean, heart disease is still the number one killer of both men and women. Do
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The wife of one of my clients cornered me at the yoga studio to tell me that whatever I was having her husband do was working! He won’t leave her alone in the bedroom! She wants to sleep and he has other ideas! I’ll take this as a win, a success and a testimonial! Did you know that what goes
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Glyphosate is a known carcinogen along with a whole host of other things that are not generally talked about and it’s caused significant changes in the landscape of our health, very rapidly, and not in a good way. It disproportionately affects our children and animals because they are small, making the toxic load much more burdensome
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