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...
Weight Loss , Newsletter Archive , Mindset
New Year’s Resolutions
This time of the year we like talking about our New Year goals, plans and wishes. Do you think that we really need to wait for the new year to make this happen? I don’t think so… Unfortunately, so many people are waiting for a magic...
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...
Newsletter Archive , Weight Loss , Recipes
Avoiding holiday weight gain, amazing short documentaries, and a delicious recipe
December is an exciting month! Do you feel too that it always seems to go by so quickly? Shopping, Christmas parties, and of course lots of foods… Keeping your weight at least the same is not so easy. However, there are still things that...
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...
Detox & Healing , Newsletter Archive , Mindset
Stop chasing your dreams
Life can be BEAUTIFUL, if we stop chasing our dreams!!! Yes, you heard correct, stop chasing your dreams! Why? Think about it this way: if you have a dream then you want make it happen, and during the process you’re most likely to forget...
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...
