In the food pyramid and other standardized forms of dietary recommendations such as MyPlate, grains have made up the foundation of the recommended diet for a few decades now, encouraging people to eat 6-11 servings of “healthy whole grains” every day.

However, in contrast to the reported health benefits of grains, they are actually quite detrimental to your overall health and well-being. Rather than supporting the efforts you’re making to heal your body, grains can actually prevent you from healing, and do a considerable amount of harm to your body and overall health.

Let’s take a closer look at what grains are, why they’re so damaging to your health, and how you can begin making the necessary adjustments to your diet to achieve more optimal health and a better quality of life.

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If you read my posts on the health benefits and the environmental benefits of pastured meats, then – if you weren’t already – hopefully now you’re planning to source more of your proteins from pasture-raised animals. Fortunately, finding high-quality grass-fed meats is getting easier, with more and more options popping up all the time. What follows is a list of my top picks!

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Environmental health has been at the forefront of the public consciousness in recent years. The disastrous and increasingly negative consequences of global warming and the continued impact that we’re having on our planet have made climate change a cause that many are rallying behind, with good reason.

I discussed the health benefits of grass-fed meat over grain-fed meat in last week’s blog post; now let’s evaluate the claims being made about grass-fed meat’s benefits for the environment.

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With all the recent and growing hype about grass-fed meats, do you sometimes wonder:

Is pastured meat really better for you?

Particularly when the meats from pastured animals are more expensive than “regular” supermarket meats, this is an important question to consider.

Is it worth the extra cost? What really are the differences between them?

That’s what we’re going to talk about today!

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Have you been diagnosed with elevated or Stage 1 or 2 high blood pressure (aka hypertension), and your MD wants to put you on side-effect-ridden prescription medications (that often aren't very effective)? If so, and if you – very sensibly – don’t want to go that route, what natural options do you have?

Happily, many!

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Do you have high blood pressure and want to learn more about natural ways to address it? Then you’ve come to the right place!

You happily have several great natural options for hypertension, without any of the side effects of prescription high blood pressure medications. These natural options include: herbs, supplements, diet, and lifestyle.

Today, we’re going to talk mainly about my 4 favorite supplements for hypertension, with a brief touch on food.

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One of my primary roles as a holistic doctor is to be a health detective. People come to me to help them figure out what is going on with their bodies, why things are going wrong, and how to fix them so that they can feel better, stop worrying about their health, enjoy life more, and have healthier longevity (ie. age better).

As a health detective, I ask questions like what are your main symptoms, how long has this been going on, what have you been eating, how is your sleep/mood/stress level, did something happen prior to the onset of the problem: a particularly stressful event, accident, loss, exposure to mold or chemicals, a cold/flu, food poisoning, etc.

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Last week, I talked about the importance and health benefits of probiotic foods and supplements, and how to choose them, to enhance the number and diversity of the beneficial micro-organisms in your microbiome.

Today we will look at the flip side, and talk about the best anti-microbial foods, herbs, and spices that you can use to help reduce the number of disease-causing micro-organisms, aka pathogens, in your system.

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You're probably familiar with probiotics, and with the importance of having a proper balance of them in your body for achieving and maintaining optimal health. But did you know that an imbalance of them - called gut dysbiosis - can adversely affect every aspect of your health?

Today we're going to talk about what a lot of those adverse effects are, the best food and beverage sources of probiotics (with links to recipes and products), how to choose your probiotic supplements and doses, and my favorite probiotics.

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Last week, I talked about the importance of boosting your digestion by improving your levels of stomach acid, digestive enzymes, and bile.

One of the best ways to do all of that, naturally, is to regularly partake of the bitter flavor.

For most of us, this takes some getting used to, but the effort is well worth it for the health benefits, and, over time, most people come to love this under-valued and under-utilized flavor. And if not love, well, at least appreciate it more for its wonderful health benefits!

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