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What’s Missing in Your Practice?

What is one of the most profound actions you can do for the health of your own body, the health of your patients, your community, and ultimately the health of our world? What is the most basic, fun...

Blueberry Extract is Back!!

Our blueberry extract is back and it is better than ever. Our brain is central to who we are, the core of our very being, and with the frightening specter of the ever rising rate of Alzheimer’s Dis...

Is Organic Food Really Better?

Is Organic Food Really Better? In a most recent study published in the British Journal of Nutrition (2014), titled “Higher Antioxidant and Lower Cadmium Concentrations and Lower Incidence of Pestic...

Garlics effect on Probiotics

In a recent study by Booyens and Thantsha (2013), Garlic was acknowledged as a powerful broad spectrum anti-microbial, able to kill many types of pathogens (see the many studies in references below...

Attention! The Therapeutic Food Recipes for Health.

Last week we began sharing our collective recipes—yours and ours—that we have shared and exchanged over the last decade. Last week we brought new research to help out in the Colds and Flu season (f...

Good Probiotic for the Cold & Flu Season

Since the cold and flu season is upon us, let me share a large study that examines probiotics use to shorten the duration of a cold! King et al.’s (2014) meta-analysis research on the effectiveness...

The Power of Good Probiotics

When we think of food as medicine, right at the top of this list should be the health building power of fermented foods.  Our gastrointestinal microbiome thrives with the support of friendly, healt...

Eat Your Greens

Cruciferous vegetables are packed with phytochemicals that have health giving power.  In last week’s Forward Thinking we discussed how cruciferous vegetables prime our immune system and thereby pro...

How Cruciferous Vegetables Aid the Immune System

How Cruciferous Vegetables Aid the Immune System How does food behave as protective medicine? Exciting evidence demonstrates the immune stimulating power of cruciferous vegetables, and the value of...

Food Diversity is Key to Good Health

We have added a new topic to our ongoing conversation about good health. Historically, macronutrients, vitamins, minerals, fish oil and fiber have been the center of nutritional advice (McDowell, 2...