Nutrition , Detox & Healing , Newsletter Archive , Ketogenic Diet
Calorie restriction can prevent and heal cancer
Last week, I talked about the yogic perspective on health, and what you can do mentally to heal yourself. This week, let’s talk about what you can do to heal your physical body. Cancer rates continue to increase because of our...
Nutrition , Detox & Healing , Newsletter Archive , Mindset
A different perspective on cancer
Here’s the yogi’s view on cancer, taken from the book “Cancer: A Yogic Perspective”. In yogis, they don’t see cancer as many different types. Where and how it manifests in a particular individual may depend on various aspects of one’s physiology, genetics, lifestyle, diet and so on, but...
Nutrition , Detox & Healing , Newsletter Archive
One of the most important and misdiagnosed vitamins
All vitamins play a crucial role for our health, although some do affect our body more that others. The B vitamins are a group of eight vitamins that include B1 (thiamine), B2 (riboflavin), B3 (Niacin), B5 (pantothenic acid), B6, B7...
Nutrition , Detox & Healing , Newsletter Archive
How to improve sleep quality naturally
What is sleep? The dictionary definition is “a condition of body and mind such as that which typically recurs for several hours every night, in which the nervous system is relatively inactive, the eyes closed, the postural muscles...
Nutrition , Newsletter Archive , Mindset , Detox & Healing
How to lose weight? My answer will surprise you…
This is the million dollar question… Do you think anyone really knows the answer? You will see so many ways to do it — they’ll tell you to eat this food, drink this, make sure you need to be in calorie deficit, do a detox, do cardio, and...
Nutrition , Newsletter Archive , Kauai Garden Island
Thinking beyond calories
Did you ever think where our concept of calories comes from? What does calorie actually mean? Many of us are counting calories, reading labels, and calculating the numbers, but do you really know the concept behind it? What is a...
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...
