How to Successfully Follow a Food Elimination Diet

How to Successfully Follow a Food Elimination Diet Dietary changes and food elimination diets are treatments that I routinely recommend to patients when clinically appropriate. Having experienced the benefits of this approach in my own life, I know how important it is to make dietary changes. Patients remind me, however, that it is not always […]

Why Willpower fails: How to Build Healthier Eating Habits

Why Willpower fails: How to Build Healthier Eating Habits We typically think of willpower as the inner strength that we use to resist temptation. We use it to choose the apple instead of the cookie. Or the salad instead of the French fries. Willpower is the foundation of many diet programs, and without it, we […]

Yes, It’s That Time of Year Again!

Yes, It’s That Time of Year Again! Fall has arrived, and with it come the often-hectic months of October, November, and December, when life can feel even busier than usual.  Everywhere we turn, articles about staying healthy throughout the winter and holiday season appear alongside a seemingly endless stream of invitations to parties, Thanksgiving feasts, and other […]

Healthy Halloween: What’s a Parent to Do?

Healthy Halloween: What’s a Parent to Do? Halloween: a holiday that lasts one evening but can feel like an entire month devoted to collecting candy! If you are a parent trying to help your children develop healthy eating habits, this can be one of the year‘s most challenging holidays. How do you let your children […]

The Gut-Skin Connection: How to Heal Your Digestive System to Clear Chronic Skin Conditions 

The Gut-Skin Connection: How to Heal Your Digestive System to Clear Chronic Skin Conditions  By the time a patient sits across from me describing years of frustrating breakouts, rashes, or flare-ups, they have usually already tried nearly every cream, serum, and prescription on the market. What surprises many of them is that we start the […]

Is Hormone Replacement Therapy for Menopause Safe? New Research on the Safety of Menopause Treatment

Is Hormone Replacement Therapy for Menopause Safe? New Research on the Safety of Menopause Treatment For more than two decades, hormone replacement therapy has carried a reputation shaped more by fear than by context. If you’re in perimenopause or menopause now, someone may have told you HRT is dangerous. That fear didn’t come from nowhere, […]

Osteoporosis Treatment & Prevention: A Naturopathic Guide to Building Stronger Bones Naturally

Osteoporosis Treatment & Prevention: A Naturopathic Guide to Building Stronger Bones Naturally Nearly one in five women over 50 in the United States has osteoporosis, and most of them had no idea until a fracture told them so. That is the nature of this condition: it is silent, gradual, and deeply underestimated, right up until […]

How do I get healthy, tasty food onto my table?

How do I get healthy, tasty food onto my table? HOW DO I GET HEALTHY, TASTY FOOD ONTO MY TABLE? Eating healthy in the modern world is no easy task! Add in dietary restrictions for food sensitivities, blood sugar regulation, imbalances in gut flora, nervous system dysregulation, hormone balancing, auto-immune conditions, weight loss, etc. and […]

Why our willpower fails us

Why our willpower fails us We typically think of willpower as the inner strength that we use to resist temptation. We use it to choose the apple instead of the cookie. Or the salad instead of the french fries. Willpower is used as the foundation for many diet programs and without it we falter and […]

The Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins With One Step

The Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins With One Step “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”   – Aristotle    I’ve heard it said that 21 days must pass before a new behavior becomes habit. Other sources cite 7 repetitions as the magic number before the […]