Kauai Garden Island , Detox & Healing , Exercise
Kaua‘i's Outdoor Gyms (Part 1)
Exercise does not necessarily have to be practiced in the gym. In fact, instead of spending time traveling to the gym and paying membership fee, you can get a great workout outdoors and feel the beautiful peaceful energy that nature offers.
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 , Exercise
The Power of Movement
Are you aware how powerful mobility and stability movements can be? Especially as we age, maintaining strength and cardiovascular fitness often takes more attention than mobility and stability, however, they are just as crucial.
Kauai Garden Island , Exercise
A new sport that you may have never heard of
What do you get when you combine running, strength training, functional fitness, and a community-driven competition that welcomes all levels of ability? The answer is HYROX, the rapidly growing global fitness race that's turning everyday gym-lovers into hybrid athletes, and in the process literally revolutionizing how we train.
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.
How to start something new and keep your drive (part 2)
Dopamine, a neurotransmitter and central to motivation, serves as the brain's signal to start and persist in pursuing our goals. It not only drives the desire to achieve but also sustains effort during the process.
How to start something new and keep your drive (part 1)
Have you made your New Year's resolutions? Even if we don't openly share them, most of us decide on changes for the new year. We often start strong and feel ambitious, successfully sticking to our goals for a few weeks. But what stops us so often from continuing?
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?
The Real History of Thanksgiving
When you hear “Thanksgiving”, what comes first to mind is quite likely roasted turkey and a lot of food. That has become tradition, however Thanksgiving is more than just a day of feasting, it brings family and friends together and gives opportunity to reflect on gratitude and love.
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.
