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 29, 2020 | Functional Medicine, Wellness
There’s been a lot of talk in the medical community about the role of vitamin D in the development and prognosis of Covid-19 . The conclusion from the first three preprints [*] on this topic — two in Southeast Asia [1][2] and one in Belgium [3]— is that a...
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 | May 9, 2020 | Functional Medicine, Wellness
It is undeniable that the mainstream media conversation about the pandemic is dominated by fear mongering, and there is little talk about what individuals can do to stay healthy, and more importantly, become healthier, apart from practicing social distancing and...
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...
