Kauai Garden Island , Nutrition
Apple cider vinegar: helpful for some, hard on others
Apple cider vinegar (ACV) can be a miracle to help digestion, but is it for everyone? It's benefits go far beyond sugar spikes and helping with digestion. That's why, in a weight loss journey, it might actually be your best friend.
Kauai Garden Island , Nutrition
Why the type of Magnesium makes a difference
Magnesium is a unique mineral because that is involved in hundreds of enzymatic reactions. Because it works in so many places, both how much you get and which form you choose matter.
Kauai Garden Island , Nutrition , Detox & Healing
How much pesticides are in our food?
Eating more fruits and vegetables is one of the best things for improving our health. However, many of the healthiest plant foods are also sprayed with pesticides — chemicals used to prevent pests and improve crop yield. Farmers use pesticides to grow more food, often without realizing how much damage it leaves behind that may affect your health over time.
Kauai Garden Island , Nutrition , Recipes
Using Hawaiian Superfoods to Improve Heart Health
Hawaii is packed with natural beauty, but also a wealth of superfoods that can help maintain healthy cholesterol levels, improve heart-health and support overall wellbeing.
Kauai Garden Island , Nutrition
The FDA's New Rules on "Healthy" Food Labeling – What You Need to Know
It's easy to get confused by what's labeled as “healthy” in today's food industry. For example, packages often show pictures of fruits or bowls of berries, even when the actual product contains no real fruit, just artificial flavoring.
Kauai Garden Island , Nutrition
Nature's Anti-Inflammatory Oil
It's called “liquid gold” because of its rich history throughout many cultures, with countless attributed health benefits. The history of olive oil began in the Mediterranean countries including Greece, Turkey and Italy.
Kauai Garden Island , Nutrition , Detox & Healing
Stem cell therapy is changing medicine (part 3)
As we age, the body's stem cell production slows, making it harder for us to recover from injuries and illnesses. Can we do something other than expensive medical treatments to help healing, or maybe prevent things before they happen?
Kauai Garden Island , Nutrition , Detox & Healing
Stem cell therapy is changing medicine (part 2)
After reading my first column about stem cell therapy you may be thinking about asking your physician to learn more about how it might help your specific health issues. It can offer one of the most therapeutic approaches for some diseases and health problems, including joint pain, osteoarthritis and sports injuries.
Kauai Garden Island , Nutrition , Detox & Healing
Stem cell therapy is changing medicine (part 1)
Everyone wants to live for a healthy life span and ideally never get old. You can stay healthier while aging, however we can not yet stop the aging process. So it's up to us to understand what steps we need to take during this time. Of course, I am talking about specific actions that we can take, and not unexpected health issues or bad luck with our genetics.
Kauai Garden Island , Nutrition , Exercise , Mindset
How does our environment affect our health?
We all know that our environment can have a big effect on the way that we think and behave. Most of the time we may not actually realize how our environment is affecting us, and yet it can still change our reactions and behaviors.
Kauai Garden Island , Nutrition , Detox & Healing
How to improve your gut health naturally (part 2)
When Hippocrates said that all disease starts in gut, that really was not an understatement. It can be hard to think that different symptoms, such as a headache or joint pain, are connected. But they could very well be coming from your gut via ingested food or bacteria imbalances.
Kauai Garden Island , Nutrition , Detox & Healing
How to improve your gut health naturally (part 1)
Did you know that more than 100 trillion bacteria live within you? That's approximately 3.3lbs (1.5kg) of bacteria! We should not underestimate gut health, especially since almost every disease starts there.
