I have a new guest blog post up on Mountain Rose Herbs’ blog. Click over to check it out. In the post, I discuss living in harmony with the seasons and the transition from Winter into Spring. I talk about lifestyle behaviors, foods to eat, and easily-obtained herbs to support this idea of living with [...]
Dear Friend, I hope Winter is treating you well. Despite a strong personal preference for Summer, I find Winter to be a wonderfully beneficial time of year. Winter is the season of stillness and moving inward. It’s about going deep within ourselves to reconnect with our resources and identity. We lead busy lives. Luckily, nature [...]
A lot of healthcare providers I know who are also fans of bone broth spend a lot of time trying to convince their vegetarian patients to eat bone broth. While I do think bone broth is essential, I don’t think that’s particularly fair to vegetarians. So, if a patient is unwilling to try bone broth, [...]
Vitamin D is a unique vitamin. It is the only vitamin that the human body can produce naturally. Vitamin D is often called the “sunshine vitamin” due to the fact that the body can synthesize vitamin D as a result of direct exposure to sunlight on the skin. Recently, this vitamin has been getting a [...]
Boosting Your Health Naturally So many people rush to pills or vitamin and mineral supplements to cure what ails them. Unfortunately, this is the nature of our society, a development of living a life cut off from our food and its sources. Instead of looking for a cure in a pill, whenever possible, I encourage [...]
Essential fatty acids (EFA), specifically Omega 3s, have been in the news a lot recently. They’ve also been the subject of a number of research studies. And rightly so! Omega 3 fatty acids, known commonly by two constituents EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid), play a role in myriad processes in the body. One [...]
The word Calcium makes most people think of two other words – bones and milk. Calcium is essential for having strong bones and teeth. Calcium also plays essential roles in myriad other functions in the body, such as the function of the nervous system and the heart, and even in cancer prevention, according to research [...]
About bone broth In Chinese medicine, the digestion is likened to a pot of simmering soup. Raw ingredients go in, and a new, refined product comes out. In our body, the raw material is food and the refined product is Qi, the vital energy of the body that makes everything work. It is no wonder [...]
Trans fats have been in the news a lot lately. But what are they and what do they really do to us? In science-speak, trans fats are unsaturated fats (they’re always unsaturated and never saturated fats) with at least one trans-isomer fatty acid. Trans fats are exceptionally rare in nature. They are a product of [...]
The New York Times posted an article today about research done on vitamins, conception and birth weight. This is particularly interesting to me because the findings are not far from what we think in Chinese medicine. In order to have a strong pregnancy and ensure a healthy child is born, both biological parents have to [...]
