Some people can skip breakfast, run on caffeine, fast until noon, hit the gym hard, and feel fine. Others try the exact same thing and end up anxious, shaky, exhausted, and hungry, yet somehow gain weight despite eating next to nothing. This isn’t a lack of discipline. This isn’t “not trying hard enough.” This is biology—specifically, genetics. There are certain gene variations—most famously COMT, MAO, DBH, and sometimes MTHFR—that make it harder for the body to break down an

Conscious Nutrition: Eating With Awareness Instead of Anxiety For years, I watched people cling to diets the way you hold onto a lifeline in rough water. Carb fear, fat fear, calorie counting, fasting windows, protein obsession — the whole buffet of modern nutritional noise. And underneath it all, most people weren’t learning to nourish themselves. They were learning to disconnect from their bodies. I wrote Conscious Nutrition because nutrition shouldn’t feel like a punishmen

Unstuck: The Little Book About the Big Problem Nobody Wants to Talk About There’s a funny thing about constipation: nearly everyone deals with it at some point, yet almost no one talks about it until they’re miserable. As a practitioner, I’ve heard it whispered, joked about, or mentioned as an afterthought — as if bowel movements are some optional body feature instead of a major sign of health. I wrote Unstuck because I got tired of watching people quietly suffer through some

Your food supply is not what it used to be, our toxin load is incredible, and our stressors are insurmountable. IF (a big IF) nutrients are available in your food, the ability of your body to break it apart, transport it, and use it to heal, remains a mystery. If you choose supplements as part of nutritional therapy, it is a slow brew to help the body heal itself. It is not intended to treat a symptom, rather to resource each cell of your body to positively change your health

Magnesium is a nutrient that is involved in over 300 cellular reactions. Therefore, proper magnesium availability can enhance over 300 processes in your body and positively impact health. Many things within your life will deplete magnesium including stress, disease, medications, inflammation, genetic mutation, and certain foods. Blood tests can help determine temporary levels of magnesium, but this singular value should not solely be used to determine deficiency. If you have

This post contain affiliate links. Please refer to the site disclaimer. I am an entirely new human from a few years ago. This transformation could not be more apparent than in a recent addition to my self-love routine. Even just a year ago, I would not have called deliberate cold exposure self-love...I would have deemed it a torment, and years on the path of hypothyroidism defined this belief. With hypothyroidism, any temperature below 80 degrees turned into lingering pain. M

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In the past few months, I was approached by a few beautiful humans as they inquired about my profession and my services, because they all have SOMETHING out of balance. As I explained the whole-human approach of Functional Medicine and nutrition, they replied, "I feel fine, except for..., so I don't need that" "I eat a really great diet, so I don't need that," and "If I know anyone that needs that, I'll let them know." But that created a huge ripple in my consciousness as no

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WEIGHT A Minute… Weight does not dictate wellness…Wellness dictates weight and what it’s made of. I’m not a huge fan of targeting weight loss as a wellness solution because raw weight measurements require a much larger story be told on their behalf. We know that thin humans can have cancer, diabetes, depression, Alzheimer’s, and autoimmune disorders. And high weights can reflect the extremes of high muscle mass or obesity. To simply reduce calories and take a weight-loss sha

It’s frowned upon to report that nutrients can be used to treat ceratin disease states and I suppose it’s due to a simple language issue....