In today's episode, we're talking about 7 tips for healthy snacking. Our body seeks rhythm, in fact our clock genes control our circadian rhythm - when we wake up, when we eat, when we sleep.

Peripheral organs like our thyroid, pancreas, large intestine also have their own clocks and these clocks are more easily manipulated by food supply or the lack thereof.

One of the issues with snacking late in the evening is that it causes the peripheral circadian clocks to get out of sync with the master clock.

Snacking at nighttime can mess with your internal clocks and in so doing can cause your hormones, and neurotransmitters to start working against you.

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In today's episode, we are discussing the value of hydration, what hinders hydration and 5 steps to maximize your hydration status.

Without optimal water, cell membranes lack structure and without proper structure, cell membranes are unable to communicate efficiently.  

Without sufficient water intake, you cannot properly metabolize stored fats and carbohydrates to be used as energy sources.  

In fact, each morning you wake up in a dehydrated state as your body has spent 7-9+ hours without water, if you get a reasonable night of sleep. 

Find out how to fully hydrate your body beyond just drinking more water!

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In today's episode, we're talking about how medications can deplete your vitamin stores.

Medications such as stomach acid blockers, anti-anxiety medications, birth control, anti depressants, and more.

Nutrient deficiencies are often overlooked.

The lack of available nutrients can increase the intensity of withdrawal symptoms especially from psych medications.

B vitamins and magnesium are especially important for neurotransmitters.

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In today's episode, we are talking about 5 actions you can take to heal your digestive tract.

Often we jump to the newest parasite cleanse, candida flush or probiotic, to heal our digestive tract but these are shortsighted and only inoculate the system.  

Digestive healing can be a broad overarching term so here's what I mean when I talk about digestive health:

➡️Maximizing hydrochloric acid production to ensure our foods are broken and any would-be-pathogens are incinerated before they reach the small intestine. 

➡️Strengthening the integrity of the intestinal barrier to ensure food particles that are not meant for the blood stream are not making their way via a leaky gut into the bloodstream setting off an immune response with each meal. 

➡️Supporting a consistent rhythm for our migrating motor complex and peristaltic movements that keep bacteria in their ideal place and move waste out of us.

➡️Ensuring the bile acids being produced by the gallbladder are being cleared of their toxic elements before being recycled and reabsorbed.This helps maintain a healthy gallbladder as well as ensures we are able to break down fats adequately and absorb fat soluble vitamins like A, D, E, K.  

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In today's episode, we're talking about the relationship between cholesterol and estrogen. Cholesterol is the building block for estrogen and low estrogen levels promote decreased HDL cholesterol and increased LDL cholesterol. 

For those of you who have been accumulating health for a while, you know that estrogen is not the bad guy and cholesterol is a necessity for cell membrane integrity and the building block of all our hormones.  

Simply suppressing estrogen and cholesterol production is not the answer.  

When you support optimal estrogen metabolism through consumption of colorful foods like fruits and vegetables, when you limit your exposure to endocrine disruptors like plastics and parabens in beauty products, not only do you get to enjoy the best estrogen has to offer your body, but you will also optimize cholesterol ratios.

It is the balance of estrogens and cholesterol molecules that is vital to a healthy life, free of disease and dysfunction.

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In this episode, I'm talking about digestion because where our digestion goes, our health goes.

A multitude of studies have researched the relationship between food and digestion and these are the conclusions:

• Coincident with the trend of ultra processed food consumption is an increase in cases of inflammatory bowel disease and metabolic syndrome.
• High consumption of ultra-processed foods in men and women was associated with increased risk of colorectal cancer.
• High consumption of ultra-processed foods associated with functional diarrhea, function constipation and irritable bowel syndrome.
• Regular ultra-processed food consumption upsets balance of flora in digestive tract setting stage for Crohn’s disease.
• Ultra processed food consumption creates bacterial balance associated with increased risk of obesity and diabetes in parents and their offspring.

Please recognize that dependence on sterile, ultra convenient, easily accessible, beautifully packaged food items is a recipe for digestive demise. 

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In today's episode we're talking about 5 health myths that can open the door to disease and dysfunction:

1. This (insert ailment) is just part of aging.

2. Eating cereal like Cheerios and Raisin Bran supports healthy cholesterol.

3. High cholesterol is a problem that warrants a statin medication.

4. Tylenol (acetaminophen) is no big deal.

5. Half marathons and other intense fitness challenges are just as good as having a consistent fitness routine and my body will keep showing up for me for years to come.

Let's accumulate health, not hype, or propaganda.

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In this episode, we're talking about erythritol. High blood erythritol levels increases the risk of heart attack and stroke.

This is the latest research from the Cleveland Clinic.

It found that erythritol is associated with an over responsiveness of platelets to clotting.

When participants consumed erythritol-sweetened foods, levels in the blood rose 1000 fold above natural levels in the blood. 

Often erythritol is touted as this great sweetener because it is almost entirely unchanged as it goes from the keto cookie, through your gut, into the blood, throughout your entire body and then out your kidneys and into the toilet.  

Unfortunately, in the process it damages gut bacteria and now we see it leads to overactive platelets and clotting. 

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In today's episoder, we're talking about 7 simple eating habits that can transform your health. From my personal experience and working with thousands of patients, here are the 7 key eating habits that have transformed people's lives:

1. Eat nutrient dense foods.🥗

2. Optimize your day and appetite with protein.🥩

3. Delete artificial sweeteners (Aspartame, Splenda, sucralose, Ace K) and sugar added to food🍬

4. Cancel vegetable oils in prepared foods.🌽

5. Hydrate like your body is 75% water because it is.💦

6. Stop eating 2-3 hours before bed.😴

7. Prepare your food in advance.🗓

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In today's episode, we're talking about a commonly perpetuated myth that taking melatonin stops your body's own production of melatonin. 

However, the factors that decrease melatonin production are often overlooked. Factors such as, a diet comprised of processed foods, excess caffeine intake, time indoors and lack of exercise. 

Melatonin is created in the digestive tract and plays a significant role in regulating intestinal motility, you may have heard of SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth) which is essentially a digestive infection caused by poor intestinal motility.  

Optimal GI production of melatonin can support overcoming SIBO. It helps regulate the immune response, helps to breakdown fatty acids for energy, and supports optimal heart function.

The research on the positive effects of melatonin on the body is just getting started.

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