Nutrition , Detox & Healing , Newsletter Archive , Weight Loss
Eat according to your genes
Are you confused about which diet you should follow? Should you avoid dairy or gluten? What about coffee? Are you slow or fast metabolized? Do you feel some foods starting to affect you in a different way that they used to? Food...
Nutrition , Detox & Healing , Newsletter Archive , Kauai Garden Island , Mindset
How to naturally prevent or reduce menopausal symptoms
The term menopause is derived from meno (meaning month, menses) plus pausis (meaning pause or cessation). In other words, it is a pause in menstruation. Understanding the terminology and definitions can be helpful in understanding the...
Nutrition , Detox & Healing , Newsletter Archive , Kauai Garden Island
What do you need to know about the digestive system and leaky gut? Part 2: How to heal.
In my previous article I talked about the importance of digestion, and what may cause leaky gut. The walls of the intestine serve as a physical barrier, separating food and the bacterial populations of the intestine from the rest of the...
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
Supplementation needs to be personalized!
Are you confused about which supplements you need to take, and how much? Probably you heard that you should take multivitamins, but then someone else is saying that you don’t need to because the food you eat contains enough nutrients...
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 , Newsletter Archive
ACN Annual Conference 2018, and a free docu series
I LOVE learning, especially when it’s about nutrition and fitness! Next week I will be attending the American College of Nutrition (ACN) Annual Conference in Seattle. It’s the 3rd year that I’ll be attending, and I’m super...
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...
