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Understanding Histamines: How They Impact Your Health and Ways to Manage Them
What Are Histamines and Why Are They Important? Histamines are crucial chemicals produced by mast cells in the immune system, playing essential roles in digestion, neurotransmitter production, immunity, blood pressure regulation, and hormone balance. It’s up to the...
The Season of Simplicity
Many people experience more stress this time of year, from longer periods of dark vs light, too many school-related activities, end-of-year work projects, and the upcoming holidays – can you believe it’s almost November? These stressors can cause you to hit the...
Autoimmunity
Autoimmune diseases are on the rise, and we all know someone (may even be yourself) who is struggling with an autoimmune disease. Any disease where your body starts to attack its own cells and tissues falls under autoimmunity. This is an umbrella term that many...
Why I tried “fasting mimicking” for 5 days
Recently, a colleague and I were discussing how to help a patient struggling with weight loss as well as immune challenges and inflammation, and the topic of fasting came up. There’s a lot of research that suggests periodic fasting may help people with metabolic and...
It’s what you do MOST of the time that matters.
Long-term habits are really what changes us. Sure, you can get results from a 10-day detox or a 30-day program but remember it’s what you do most of the time, long-term, that impacts your overall health and wellness. Over and over again, you’ll hear Cindi and I...
Cindi’s Lab Results – Adrenals & Cortisol
Some of the most common complaints I hear from clients is how exhausted they are, they crave either sugar or salt, they are irritable or apathetic, they can’t sleep a wink, and no matter what they do they just can’t lose a darn pound. Sound familiar? Well,...
I Was Drinking a Lot of Water & Still Felt Dehydrated. Here’s What I Did.
Not long ago, I found myself drinking roughly three liters of water daily and constantly using the bathroom. My lips were dry, my skin was dry, I had headaches and I was always thirsty. And then it dawned on me. I was drinking "dead" water. As with everything we put...
8 Weight Loss Strategies When You Feel Stuck
Are you carrying around extra weight right now that won’t budge no matter what you do? Whether this season of life – hello, quarantine – is having a negative impact on your weight, or maybe your weight loss journey has hit a plateau. Either way, we are...
COVID-19 Success Story: The power of nutrition & lifestyle medicine
One of my clients, a 53 yo African American woman with a history of asthma and O2 levels of 91-97%, living in Brooklyn New York, contracted COVID-19 in early April. She had a fever, body aches, sore throat, headaches, and lost her sense of taste and smell. She had a...
Top 10 Ways to Keep your Immune System Strong
In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic, it’s more important than ever to support your immune system. This includes supporting both your physical and mental health. These are interesting times – we all process and handle situations like this...
7 Tips for Easy and Healthy Eating All Week Long
Do you ever think that if you had a personal chef eating healthy would be a lot easier? I get it — cooking and meal prepping is hard, especially if it’s new to you or you don’t have a good system in place. But there are ways to make it simpler and I promise it’ll end...
Every Moment Matters
In honor of my dad’s birthday and my parent’s anniversary this month, I wanted to write this post. For those who have been following us since the beginning of the year, you know I lost my dad right before Christmas. Then this past month, I lost my mom, too. Both of my...
How to Take Your First Step to Changing Your Habits
Are you someone who’s waiting for just the right time to start working on a goal? You may say to yourself things like, “This week isn’t good because it’s a long holiday weekend.” Or, “Next week is tough because we’re going up to my in-laws’ cabin.” And “I have that...
The Effect of Hormones on Men’s Health
Are beer belly’s really from drinking too much beer? While the beer certainly isn’t helping, there’s much more contributing than just alcohol consumption — it all comes back to hormones. If you’re a man — or you have a man in your life — who’s struggling with a beer...
Self-Care Tips for Moms
Mother’s specialize in caring for their families, pouring everything they’ve got into their loved ones to ensure they feel loved and cared for. That’s on top of all of our other responsibilities, as well as the fact that we’re also often friends, wives, children and...
Spring Cleaning for Healthy Hormones
Harvard University and the Huffington Post hosted a public forum during which they uncovered what they believe to be the top three threats to humanity: Nuclear war Global warming Hormone-altering chemicals, otherwise known as Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDC's) How...
Why I do What I do
One of the first questions new clients ask me is ‘how & why did you get into your profession’? My answer? I want to educate, inspire, and empower others to take hold of their health by making proper lifestyle changes so they can live each and every day...
Top 5 Lifestyle Strategies for Thriving in the New Year
I am often asked by clients who are strapped for time, 'what are your top priorities when it comes to lifestyle change - what will make the biggest impact'? Well, after a lot of thought, internal debate and cross offs, I have finally landed on my list of what I...
Infertility – 3 lifestyle factors to help optimize your chances
The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention reports 12% of women aged 15 to 44 have difficulty getting pregnant or carrying a pregnancy to term. That’s one in eight women! The definition of infertility involves the inability to get pregnant after 12 months of...
Thyroid Function or Dysfunction…Why it Matters
Did you know that Synthroid, a medication used to treat an underactive thyroid, is one of the most commonly prescribed medications in the United States? And, did you know that thyroid issues impact women much more commonly than men — eight times more, in fact? We need...
Why you Should Trust your Gut
All disease begins in the gut. (Hippocrates) When’s the last time you thought about how well your gastrointestinal tract was functioning? Or, even why it matters? The gut is your gateway to good health — treat it well and you’ll be rewarded with good health; abuse it...