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How to turn on your relaxation reflex and increase your energy

We’ve all heard that food is medicine. This is true and incredibly important. It can control our development or not of chronic disease. It can help us sleep well and have sustained energy or cause insomnia and fatigue. It can literally cause or eliminate almost any symptom. And we all need to consume it. So we might as well use it to our benefit. I’m pretty sure if you’re reading this, you already understand this on some level. Another thing that we do every day, in fact every second of every minute of our lives we do this - and we can do it in a way that pushes us towards vitality or makes us feel depleted. We can induce anxiety or calm. What is it? Read more

How to start losing weight by identifying these three amazingly simple things

If you’re like most people during the pandemic, it resulted in one common thing - weight gain. And why does it seem so hard to lose? Even impossible? It’s probably because most of the time people are trying to exercise it off, or just eat less. Sometimes even changing their diet but without much success. There are so many recommendations out there, it can be hard to know what to do. Read more

How to improve your lifespan with one simple move

If you’ve been reading my blogs lately, you’ll know that lifespan isn’t quite as important as healthspan. Healthspan, is the amount of our lives that we spend being healthy and fully functional. We want our healthspan to match our lifespan. So, what is this move we can do to improve our healthspan? Read more

How to be my healthiest has been top of mind as I have been contemplating the last year of my 40’s

Last week, I turned 49…from quite a few, I heard, “Oh, to be 49 again!” Not what I was thinking - I didn’t realize how much that number was getting to me until my actual birthday, when I realized I had been having all of these unhelpful thoughts. For the last few months I have been having some symptoms that just weren’t going away. I started believing what I hear people often tell me when I meet them for the first time. “Oh, it’s because I’m getting older.” I was almost resigned to never feeling better. My response is usually, “Nonsense! You’ve got inflammation and we just need to fix it.” - I was feeling in a place of, I must be wrong, this must be what it’s like to be getting older. Ug! Not fun..... Read more

How to know the best tests to reveal your true cardiac risk

Heart attack and stroke are the number one killers but according to the Cleveland Clinic, they are 90% preventable. In fact all cardiovascular disease is 90% preventable - even if you have a family history. What does it mean to be preventable? Well that depends on where you are looking. Read more

How to hack impossible weight, energy and sleep with one tiny little device

For over a year now, I have been learning about this. You’ve probably seen them on people’s arms. They hardly weigh anything. They connect to your phone. Diabetics use them. And now you can too. Read more

The top two things you need to remove from your body that cause fatigue

The number one thing people consume to boost their energy hands down - is coffee. But for optimal sustained energy - we really need to address these two things. Read more

The best savory snack with a hint of sweet to keep your energy balanced all day

I've been eager to make this for quite a while. I had learned about it from a podcast a couple of months ago. So I tried it yesterday with some slight alterations. I actually had a frog this morning because I didn't have time for my usual breakfast. And I realized at 11am I hadn't even thought about food. Read more

The best way to know if low energy is your body protecting itself

Symptoms that often go with low energy: difficult weight loss pain depression sleep disturbance foggy thinking cold hands and feet hormonal imbalance (The list could go on and on and on…) If you have any of these symptoms, you are probably suffering from Cellular inflammation. Read more

Use this quick hack to boost your energy all day!

It’s so simple, you probably won’t believe it. It doesn’t cost anything. You have to do it throughout the day anyway. 75% of the population is chronically low in this molecule. Read more