Nutrition , Newsletter Archive , Detox & Healing , Kauai Garden Island
One single mineral that can help you regulate your thyroid (part 1)
Zinc is a very important mineral for strengthening the immune system and assisting in many hormone activities, such as thyroid hormones, growth hormones, and glucose metabolism. So if you are deficient in zinc, you may gain weight. It is...
Nutrition , Newsletter Archive , Kauai Garden Island , Mindset
How to live to be 100
Is is possible for all of us to live to be 100 years old? Do centenarians have a secret, and if so what is it? It’s not just about living to be 100 though — if you want to live 100 years, or even beyond, then you want to be living as...
Nutrition , Newsletter Archive , Kauai Garden Island , Weight Loss
Tips for Thanksgiving
We’re about to enter holiday season again. With lots of delicious food — which means that we need to be a little more careful not to gain more than a few pounds! For most of us, Thanksgiving means feasting. The real...
Nutrition , Newsletter Archive , Recipes
Tips for easy meal prep
1 - Plan your meals in advance 2 - At the weekends, cook large quantities and freeze into individual portion sizes 3 - You can prep some healthy foods beforehand, for example you can grill vegetables in the oven buy pre-cut...
Newsletter Archive , Nutrition
Do We Need to Stop Eating Plants?
This week I would like to share a recent article about oxalates from one of my teachers and mentors, Dr. Deanna Minich. Oxalates are a naturally occurring molecule found in plants and humans. They are not essential, and too much can lead...
Newsletter Archive , Detox & Healing
Did you know that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month?
This is taken from the GrassrootsHealth Nutrient Research Institute’s most recent newsletter: “We prefer to take the opportunity each October to focus on breast cancer prevention . To help educate the public on the effects of...
Nutrition , Weight Loss , Newsletter Archive
The most popular ergogenic aid for weight loss and performance
Unfortunately, most people want to lose weight — maybe ten pounds, maybe even hundreds of pounds, but most of the time they’re only thinking about losing the weight, not about staying healthy and longevity. It seems that we all want to...
Nutrition , Newsletter Archive , Kauai Garden Island
Real vs fake vegetarians
Maybe you’ve heard about, or even watched, the recent much-hyped documentary “The Game Changer” on Netflix? It presents a lot of information to argue that a vegetarian diet is the healthiest approach. But it’s very much a one-sided...
Nutrition , Newsletter Archive , Exercise , Weight Loss
Salt is an essential nutrient, not our enemy
We’ve believed for so many years that salt is bad for us, that it increase blood pressure, increases our risk of cardiovascular disease, makes us bloated, and even makes us gain weight. However, sodium is an essential nutrient that the...
Nutrition , Newsletter Archive , Kauai Garden Island
Is Cholesterol Good or Bad for You? (Part 3)
In the previous articles in this series we looked deeply at cholesterol, how it is essential for the functioning of all human organs, and what you need to know about it. It has long been thought that cholesterol is the cause of the fatty...
Nutrition , Newsletter Archive , Kauai Garden Island
Is Cholesterol Good or Bad for You? (Part 2)
Cholesterol is an important component in our body's cells, it plays a very important role in many biochemical processes and is essential for all human organs. At some point, though, it became common opinion that excess amounts of cholesterol in the blood can cause heart disease...
Nutrition , Newsletter Archive , Kauai Garden Island
Is Cholesterol Good or Bad for You? (Part 1)
When we hear about high cholesterol, most of us think about it causing heart attacks or strokes. And it scares us. But is that true, is cholesterol really bad? Should we all start using statins, the cholesterol lowering drugs, like most doctors and drugs companies tell us to?
