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The Power in Phyto Power

Dear Friends, Our newest product, Phyto Power, offers up a powerful serving of the flavonoids (Red, Green, and Blue).  We were, for that matter, thinking of incorporating in its name something with...

Most Studied Flavonoid: IsoFlavones

Dear Friends, In this week’s newsletter we will close out our discussion of the flavonoids—which we began with the anthocyanins back in the January 18th Forward Thinking—by looking at perhaps the m...

A Case for the Paleolithic Diet

Dear Friends, We want the whole package that mother nature can give us.  Not just the vitamins, minerals, carbs, proteins, fats and fibers, extracted out and remixed into some highly processed conc...

Health Benefits of Flavonols

Dear Friends, We have been illuminating a category of phytochemicals called the Flavonoids over the past three weeks.  The Flavonoids subgroups are: anthocyanins, isoflavones, flavanols, flavanones...

Flavanol or Flavonol?

Dear Friends, What’s the difference between a flavanol and a flavonol? It almost looks the same, but the difference in their molecular structure and functions is critically important. Lets learn to...

Health Benefits of Food Pigments

Dear Friends, Let’s talk about color in food!  The greens, reds, yellows, blues and purples… how do these colors heal us?  We’ve been talking about phytochemicals in the past several weeks, specifi...

Phytochemicals: Foundational to Health

Dear Friends,   What is becoming a renaissance of awareness within the practice of medicine is the acknowledgement that colorful fruits and vegetables have much to offer for health building and dis...

Phytochemicals Prevent Chronic Illness

Dear Friends, My goal in this Forward Thinking Newsletter is to help you get a hold of, or get your mind around, a class of nutrients called the phytochemicals. I know, I know, sounds boring, we’ve...

Nutrigenomics to the Rescue

Dear Friends, Well here we are again my good friends—another year’s ending, waiting for the dawn of 2012.  It’s a time for reflection, thanksgiving, and hopefulness. Dohrea and I thank you for your...

Nutrigenomics: Part 2

Dear Friends, We continue our discussion from last week with the question:  What makes food therapeutic? Make sure to look at Clinical Notes for easy to create protocols, lots of colorful foods, an...