Nutrition , Detox & Healing , Newsletter Archive , Kauai Garden Island
What do you need to know about the digestive system and leaky gut? Part 1
All disease begins in the gut — Hippocrates We are finally starting to understand how the gut plays a role in health and disease. We are not only what we eat, we are what we absorb and digest. Most of us even won’t realize...
Nutrition , Detox & Healing , Newsletter Archive , Kauai Garden Island
Epigenetics
I hope that you had an AMAZING Thanksgiving holiday! If yes, there’s a good chance that you ate too much good food! And maybe you’re thinking now how to lose your holiday weight, and also wondering too why some of your friends did not...
Nutrition , Detox & Healing , Newsletter Archive , Kauai Garden Island
Nutrigenomics
Nutrigenomics (nutritional genomics) is an emerging field that studies how the human genome and/or genes interact with diet to influence individual’s and population’s responses to food and diseases. The excitement about nutrigenomics comes from...
Nutrition , Detox & Healing , Weight Loss , Newsletter Archive , Kauai Garden Island
Can time restricted feeding help your diabetes and weight loss?
Time restricted feeding (TRF) is a type of intermittent fasting in which feeding times are restricted to certain hours of the day. Actually, this should be our natural pattern for eating — eat some food, feel satisfied then stop, get some...
Nutrition , Detox & Healing , Newsletter Archive , Kauai Garden Island , Exercise , Ketogenic Diet
Benefits of The Ketogenic Diet — Part II, Athletic Performance
In a recent article I talked about the ketogenic diet, its benefits, and its possible down-sides. In this article, I’d like to go into a lot more detail on how, or if, a ketogenic diet can benefit athletic performance....
Nutrition , Newsletter Archive , Kauai Garden Island , Detox & Healing
Fibromyalgia — what it is, and how can you heal it
Do you have joint pain, sleep disturbance, depression, inability to think clearly, chronic fatigue or chronic pain in your muscles and ligaments? Most of us feel some of this at least once an a while, some of us maybe feel it more...
Nutrition , Newsletter Archive , Kauai Garden Island , Detox & Healing , Weight Loss , Ketogenic Diet
Benefits of The Ketogenic Diet
A ketogenic diet is one form of a very low carbohydrate diet. However, you need to cut almost all sources of sugar in order for your body to produce ketones for energy, instead of using glucose (sugar) for energy. You can look at ketones...
Nutrition , Newsletter Archive , Kauai Garden Island , Weight Loss
All you need to know about fructose
I’ve written many times about added sugar, but what about consuming fruits, and the fructose that they contain? Are fruits considered to be added sugar ? The good news is that they are not — except for smoothies and processed fruit...
Nutrition , Newsletter Archive , Kauai Garden Island , Recipes
The many benefits of clarified butter and ghee
Have you ever tried clarified butter, or ghee? I love cooking with ghee, it has a delicious smoky, nutty flavor and is perfect for high heat cooking. And there are so many health benefits too, other than just the taste! Ghee is a...
Newsletter Archive , Kauai Garden Island , Nutrition , Detox & Healing
Dairy Sensitivity
Maybe you’ve started to hear more about people stopping eating dairy products, and choosing dairy-free milk alternatives such as almond milk. Do we need to stop consuming dairy products? First, let’s look at why dairy might be a problem...
Nutrition , Detox & Healing , Newsletter Archive , Kauai Garden Island
The benefits of fibers are way more than you think
Fibers are the structural parts of plants and are found in all plant-derived foods — vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and legumes. Most dietary fibers are polysaccharides. Dietary fibers pass through the body undigested and contribute no...
Newsletter Archive , Detox & Healing , Nutrition , Kauai Garden Island
The extraordinary Vitamin K, and how to prevent osteoporosis
All vitamins are equally important, and their absence from our diet can cause nutrient-deficiency diseases. Vitamins and minerals have their own carriers. Vitamins A, D, E, and K, are the fat-soluble vitamins, and they are carried...
