Candida is the cause of many symptoms and you may not even know you have it. It is naturally part of our gut flora, but our habits, lifestyle and stress dictate how much of it we have in our GI tract. A common misnomer is that if you don’t have a vaginal yeast infection you can have candida. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Here is how to know if candida might be affecting you.
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How to know if you are actually hydrated
I took my kids on an end of year camping trip last weekend. Talk about the cobbler having no shoes. I brought 20 liters of my fancy water filter water from home. I also had the first glasses of wine since before the New Year. Saturday night I woke up at midnight with my legs cramping like crazy. I was completely oblivious about why this was happening. Hydration was the last thing on my mind
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Here’s why you need to know the word iatrogenic
I was finishing my continuing medical education credits this weekend. I was flabbergasted by what I was hearing in this pharmacology webinar. The only conclusion I could draw is that most of the drugs that patients are prescribed are poisons. They may affect some small positive change, but cause 10 x more problems than they prevent. This diabetes drug I was learning about can cause gangrene and death. But the pharmacist who was presenting didn’t think it was necessary to tell his patients that - he said maybe only if the patient seemed paranoid - so he wouldn’t get in trouble later. And here’s why you need to know the word iatrogenic.
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Improve your overall health now with this one thing
Considered worse than smoking a pack of cigarettes a day - this is of utmost importance for
your overall health. Contributing to diabetes, stroke, cancer, heart disease and a myriad of other
health issues, this one thing can improve your health in countless ways.
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7 Reasons you may be feeling tired
If you are tired a lot, you know what it’s like to be an energy chaser. And if you’re a mother, you definitely know what I mean. My kids are 8,11 and 14. So I’m not in the early stages of motherhood anymore, but I remember how it felt to be counting the minutes until they would go to bed or take a nap. Or think, “I must not like playing with my kids!” I used to think this and then I realized that when I did have lots of energy, it was just that I was tired!! It was a relief, but also a frustration that I had spent so much time struggling. What is the number one reason for fatigue in most people now? Men AND women?
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Here’s the most important reason to start prevention now
Did you know that you have about 95% control over your health outcomes? This means that
whether you live a long healthy life OR NOT, is almost 100% in your hands. So when does it
matter that you take control of your health to create the healthspan (how long you’re healthy
while you’re alive) and lifespan that you desire?
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How to untangle the most complex human hunger
If you’ve been reading my blogs about hunger, you can probably guess this one. It’s number six and the last of human hungers. It’s why most people think they’re overweight. And the hardest one to get a handle on...
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How to satisfy the most essential human hunger
Why do we scarf down a whole bag of sour cream n’ onion chips? Or eat a tub of ice cream in one sitting? And maybe that’s not you, but maybe you’ve been known from time to time to have a few more pieces of pizza than you should. I acknowledge the fact that yes, these foods are designed to be addictive, there is another reason why some of us may have difficulty eating just a little. I’ve written about the first 3 human hungers recently. The number four human hunger, and the only true human hunger is for…
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How to unlock difficult weight loss by knowing the 6 human hungers
One of the reasons I am obsessed with knowing how our body works is that the most important
currency for me, besides time, is energy. How, when and what we eat is a large determinant of
our energy. And understanding why we want the foods we want is part of that knowledge. If you
didn’t know there are 6 types of human hunger, you know it now. And I revealed the first two in
my last blog. I’m sure you can guess some of them, but understanding how they work and
putting it all together can be a game changer.
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Banish the top two hunger illusions to make weight loss easier
This is a line I have heard many times over the years, “I think about food all the time. It makes me crazy.” If that is true for you, have you ever wondered why this is the case, or if you have certain times of day, what is going on that you just need to eat? There are 6 types of hunger that humans have. Two of them are not actually signs of hunger, but they make us want to eat. What are they?
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