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A preview of my gentle detox with a link to register. Join us January 6th, 2025 for daily nutrition counseling and weekly meetings with the Food Foundation community.

Three easy Food Foundation recipes to keep your Thanksgiving focused on what matters most to you. Simple beautiful recipes to allow you time to relax and spend time with loved ones.

Use mindful eating and engage the senses to improve your digestion. These simple approaches can eliminate the need for over-the-counter quick fixes and the side effects they can cause.

Sustainable energy is possible when we have balance in the body. This article connects each of the seven chakras to specific foods and lifestyle changes that promote balance and well-being. Functional medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine work together to free blocked energy and enhance overall health.

An in-depth look at the difference between the two essential fatty acids: omega-3 and omega-6. Learn how the ratio of each essential fatty acid plays into chronic inflammation, simple changes you can make to improve your diet, as well as an omega-3 supplement guide.

Use the natural cycle of your day to maximize your energy. This article explores Eastern traditional medicine and Western research overlap in order to identify best practices for moving and eating throughout the day. Learn how to align your daily patterns with your body's internal clock.

Learn how to incorporate seasonal herbs and a variety of nuts into unique pestos to enhance your health. Explore options you may not have considered, and modify recipes and flavors you love with an easy guide to include foods that meet your nutrition goals.

Discover four easy ways to cleanse your diet this spring without deprivation. Learn how to incorporate greens, optimize hydration with lemon water, boost gut health with fermented foods, and enhance flavor and detoxification with fresh herbs. We include plenty of practical tips and link to some great recipes to show how you CAN help your body detox naturally and easily.

Every year since 2014 I’ve been teaching others how to detox safely and effectively based on scientific evidence. The post-detox glow is so irresistible that I repeat this 28-day journey every year, eager to share it with my community. I would love for you to feel the benefits of clearer skin, regulated appetite, improved mood, better mental clarity, and more as well. Let’s do this–together!

Boosting isn't always better. Discover why an overactive immune system can be counterproductive and what you can focus on instead. Learn when to power up or down, fueling your defense with the right nutrients. Watch out for the pitfalls of improper inflammation management and explore immune-supporting remedies. Remember, it's about building tolerance, not just boosting!

Discover why sourcing food directly from the producer matters. Learn how to support local farmers and ranchers for sustainability, community growth, fresher nutrition, and a deeper connection to your food. Explore my favorite producers in the San Francisco Bay Area and various ways to access locally grown food, from CSA programs to farmer's markets and online options. You can start small and make a difference!

Read why I choose to eat whole foods that are as natural as they can be, coming straight from the dirt, and why I seek out farmers and ranchers that grow food in a sustainable and healthy way. You too can improve your health and well-being by being a regenetarian who eats a plant-forward diet.

If you’ve ever wondered what functional nutrition is and how it’s different than traditional medicine or how they could work together, keep reading. We explain how functional nutrition approaches chronic health conditions using a holistic and tailored approach to your health.

Medicinal Uses for 7 Herbs and Spices Already in your Kitchen + Recipes for each: * Basil * Bay Leaf * Cayenne * Cinnamon * Garlic * Ginger * Thyme

Just because they’re common doesn’t mean they’re safe! Here are some critical reasons why I would use a more natural anti-inflammatory instead of an NSAID.

What do you think of when you hear the word “detox”? ⁠If it doesn’t include scrumptious and nutritious foods, you probably haven’t tried the Food Foundation 28-Day Detox. 

I have carefully chosen 5 items that will improve your health, support great businesses, and are simply too delicious to be wasted.

I was on my way to paradise and I feared it was going to get a lot worse…

The beauty and the curse of Menopause is that we all know it’s coming. It’s an inescapable part of having a female body, but it’s not a stage we have to dread. Whether you hit this change prematurely or gracefully transition into a sexy bombshell like Sophia Loren, you don’t have to give up your health and vitality in your wiser years.

Feeling like a hot mess with a dirty table? I’m here to tell you, no matter what age, it’s OK and even healthy for a woman to want her sexy back. ‍A fertile body is a healthy body, even if you have no intention of using that fertility.

I’ve made it my mission to help all moms find enough energy to get out of bed in the morning and feel 10 years younger, get the kids fed and fueled for a healthy day so you can have time to go workout for yourself, and still get a rockstar dinner on the table with time for a glass of wine to unwind.

These 3 nutrition myths harmed my body, so let's look at the reasons why and avoid the mistakes I made.

Detox is not just about what food you eat or don’t eat. I realized that I was interacting with chemicals and toxins almost constantly! For example, the average woman uses 12 different beauty products every day. How many do you use?

Thanksgiving, Diwali, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, New Year; the holidays are here and I have a few tips and tricks to help you navigate these indulgent meals with the least amount of digestive pain possible.

Some people pray before each meal, some give thanks for the nutrition received, and others eat in between zoom meetings, but did you know that this simple act of gratitude could benefit your mental and physiological health?

I learned most of my book smarts from university, but all of the best homemaker skills from my mama. She has been an amazing inspiration in my passion for holistic medicine and recently made this video together!

I don’t know about you, but I’m finding myself falling into the busy trap again. After months and months of few plans and open calendars, all of a sudden the days are filling up and the hours are slipping away.

Looking for help with acid reflux, heartburn, or even the occasional indigestion?Slippery Elm and Marshmallow root are both mucilaginous fibers that coat the lining and soothe the pain.

We have so many people with compromised immune systems and a broken medical system that is too easily overwhelmed. There is hope however, when we discuss how to support your immune system to be resilient to viral infections.

You don’t need to get this flow perfect the first time, it’s a yoga practice, not yoga perfect. This is a vigorous 20min flow that will challenge your core with a plethora of twists and help stimulate your determination.

Let’s all take a deep breath and spend the next 2 weeks lying low with family, cooking our food at home, playing board games, and building our immune systems to protect us from future viral outbreaks.

Nothing new, the media has used fear tactics to gather attention for decades, but we can *fight fear with facts* and feel empowered understanding this new or novel coronavirus.

Inflammation is a beast that can disrupt every organ system in the body. This diagram of how it works seems crazy complicated but it simplifies the main foods you should eat, and the few you should avoid.

Does your diet make you isolated and depressed, unable to make it to a workout, and ending the night back on the couch with a pint of organic, low-calorie sorbet? What if I told you the science shows that we can just think ourselves thin?

The best way to think of probiotics are like dogs. Yes, a chihuahua and a pit bull are both of the same species, but would both breeds be good for the same jobs if one was protecting your house, and the other was cuddling with grandma?

If you are not suffering from other GI troubles I mentioned earlier, then you can decide whether or not to reintroduce dairy products back into your life. The good news is, that ingesting lactose with intolerance, is not harmful to the gut.

Dr. Brogan reminds us that these symptoms are a gift because they are pointing out that there is an imbalance that is either nutritional, environmental, or psychospiritual.

By happiness is just 3 cups away, I mean 3 cups of beautifully colored vegetables, berries, and seasonal fruits. Let me explain why this will bring you the happiness you deserve and exactly which ones to eat.

This month we are going to look at the top three medicinal foods for fall and give you some great ideas on how to include them in your daily diet. I hope you find a few ways to incorporate these tasty delights this fall.

Here is what I recommend you do to make sure you are getting a careful light glow that will help prevent seasonal sadness, boost your Vitamin D levels, and not lead to sun cancer.

Join my Food Foundation Detox , and I will share a cookbook for the season with my very own recipes, but I send lists of my snack ideas,  tricks on how to make eating healthier easy, and where to find amazing food.

FODMAP stands for Fermentable Oligo-Di-Monosaccharides And Polyols. It's a mouthful for the very difficult to digest carbohydrates in foods that often result in gas and bloating.

Science is unraveling the fact that antibiotics are wiping out our immune systems and leading to the path of our gut bacteria extinction. Some of the beneficial bacteria we need to thrive may never come back.

Yes, they are marketed as low-fat, but the bottom line is "low fat" is a marketing tool to convince us that we are eating a "healthy" product that will not make us gain weight.

The truth is you can survive, albeit for a much shorter lifespan, on 6 hours, but you will thrive for longer, healthier life on 7 or more. We should sleep all night, peacefully until the spike in cortisol wakes us up in the morning again.