Allergy season tends to look the same every year. You stock up on antihistamines, brace for the sneezing, and wait for the pollen to take over. Rarely does one examine the habits that are quietly loading the gun before pollen season even begins. Your immune system doesn’t wake up on the first day of spring …
You’re doing all the things—eating healthy foods, hitting your workouts, maybe even trying magnesium or meditation at night—and yet… you’re still exhausted. Your brain feels like it’s swimming in fog, sleep is sketchy at best, and your energy crashes by mid-afternoon. If this sounds familiar, it’s time to talk about your HPA axis. Because …
Having been in the nutrition field for over 30 years, I’ve seen lots of fads come and go. And I have to say, what I have seen in the last decade with this plant-based versus keto landscape feels like an even more extreme version of the competing Adkins vs vegetarianism ideologies of the 90’s. It …
To explore developmental neurotoxicity of environmental bisphenol A (BPA) exposure for infants and children, rats were exposed to differing levels of BPA during early life were tested to determine if BPA inhibited brain development. Researchers observed that both the lowest and highest exposed groups needed more frequent ‘lessons’ and longer times to learn than the …
My Facebook wall lit up last week with this piece from the Seattle Times, discussing the finding of phthalates in boxed macaroni and cheese. Phthalates are an industrial chemical used to soften plastics. Many of us grew up unwittingly consuming phthalates as we chewed on plastic teething rings and hot drank bath water in which …
Spring is here! There are loads of people who utilize spring as a time to ‘reset’ and shake off the winter sludge with a dietary detox or cleanse. Spring cleaning season is also here, and you may be finally seeing the extent that the dust has accumulated on the blinds now that the sun is …
There’s a lot of talk going on about global warming again. Some of that is coming from it being the environmental topic that politicians fall back on every election cycle. But our president is also in his last year and struggling to complete his agenda of bringing the United States’ policy into greater integrity in …
