Let’s talk about another foundational Food-As-Medicine lifestyle intervention that will provide you with nourishment from the end of your fork, and beyond.

Last time we looked at why it’s important to use foods before supplements to maximize your health and wellness. There is definitely power in numbers, and one isolated nutrient can’t always provide the synergy that comes from getting that same nutrient in combination with other compounds like protein, phytochemicals, antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals.

And now, for door number 2!

Balance your active lifestyle with...

Homemade Elderberry Syrup

Simple ingredients and packed with food-as-medicine colorful goodness. This butternut squash pasta sauce makes a great alternative to dairy-based cheese sauces, and it leaves you feeling warm, cozy, and nourished from the inside out. 

So we talked a bit last time about leaky gut — when the used-to-be tight lining of your intestinal walls become leaky (think of a soaker hose leaking out water compared to a standard garden hose that keeps all the water in). Offending foods, medications, pathogenic organisms, or a continual bath of stress hormones, can all contribute to causing leaky gut. As a result, undigested food particles, bacteria, and environmental toxins can slip through your intestinal tissues and into your bloodstream. Nutrients can’t be properly absorbed, and all of these factors together can...

If you’ve had to avoid animal-based dairy for health reasons, or for any other reason, you’ll quickly discover that some dairy-free alternatives leave a lot to be desired. And one of the hardest things to swallow is the price! Dairy-free milks, yogurts, and cheeses can be twice as expensive and sometimes not worth the cost for the other additives and flavor you’re getting. Or should I say, the flavor you’re not getting.

When I had to go dairy-free almost a year ago, most things were pretty easy to give up. I wasn’t a big milk drinker except for a splash in my...

Have you ever had a leaky pipe… maybe a leaky faucet… or worse, a leaky roof? If you’ve ever lived in a home, chances are the answers to the above questions are all: “yes”.

But what about your own body? Beyond the leaky problems that plague homeowners, it’s possible for your body’s internal “pipes” to become leaky and a bit dysfunctional. This condition — referred to as leaky gut, or intestinal permeability, if you want to be technical — leads to more than just localized gut inflammation and malabsorption, but to all-over...