by Andrea | Jun 13, 2020 | Functional Medicine, Nutrition, Wellness
You can’t out-exercise a bad diet. A somewhat cliche phrase you might have heard before. It is true though! There’s no physical activity or exercise regime that can repair your body if you eat a diet consisting of high-carbohydrate, low-nutrient foods....
by Andrea | May 15, 2020 | Functional Medicine, Nutrition, Wellness
Comorbidities. Comorbidities. Comorbidities. Say that three times fast! By now most of us probably know what a comorbidity is, or have at least heard the term. A person with comorbidities is experiencing two or more disease processes at once. In the context of...
by Andrea | Apr 12, 2017 | Nutrition, Wellness
A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine posted a picture of her child’s worksheet, similar to this one, on her Facebook page. The one she posted used the words “good” and “bad” instead of “healthy” and “not healthy,” but the...
by Andrea | Mar 23, 2017 | Nutrition, Wellness
Here’s a great thing you can do to positively affect your digestion and the rest of your metabolism immediately: eat more bitter things. Did you know that humans “taste” flavor in other parts of the body besides the tongue? Indeed! It’s been established (1) that we...
by Andrea | Feb 23, 2017 | Nutrition
Is there anything more soul-nourishing and comforting than a bowl of piping hot soup? Okay, maybe getting a hug by someone you love, but I mean, foodwise? Yeah, didn’t think so. As you’re about to learn, not only is soup delicious, it should also be a staple of your...
by Andrea | Oct 31, 2016 | Nutrition
A year ago, I was living with arthritis. For three weeks last January, I experienced intense migratory joint pain that would subside only briefly — and never completely — after taking a couple of Aleve, which I was doing every 12 hours. This is what’s happened since....
