Sleep is a major commodity these days.  Just look at the volume of drug sales for prescription sleep aids.  Plus, this doesn’t take into account all of the over the counter sleep aids like Advil PM and the like. Sleep is so important to overall health.  It is when our body repairs and regenerates, so […]

In Part 1 we talked about the every day exposure to toxins and our toxin load.  In Part 2 we talked about our internal detoxification pathways and what happens when they get bogged down.  In particular, we talked about the incredible liver and how it neutralizes and disposes of toxins that get into our system.  Now we […]

We’re back for Part 2.  In Part 1 we talked about if there was a need to detox or not.  We discussed a very small example of the toxic chemicals in our every day lives.  In Part 2 we’ll talk about how the body detoxes itself and how we can help it to detoxify properly. […]

5 Benefits of Collagen… Helps Heal & Repair the digestive tract. By now almost everyone has heard of leaky gut syndrome. This condition decreases your ability to absorb nutrients to nourish your body but also allows pathogens and irritants to leak through the gut lining into the body causing inflammation.  This inflammation shows up in […]

1. Misread how many calories you burned during a workout.  I always recommend that you wear a heartrate monitor.  People in general think they work much harder than they actually do.  The machines at the gym are not accurate measures.  You need a heartrate monitor set specifically to your body to get an accurate read […]

This is my final installment of Superfoods for you.  The tastiest and in my opinion easiest way to add extra nutrition and protection to your diet.  These Superfoods not only act like little multivitamins, but also add all of those super antioxidants that combat oxidative damage, essential fatty acids to combat inflammation, polyphenols to combat disease […]

Bone broth is something everybody used to do “in the olden days.”  My grandmother always did it as did her grandmother.  It’s just what you did back then.  You didn’t just throw bones or carcasses away, you boiled them.  This is how you used to make stock for soups and sauces, not buy processed broth […]

The one thing in this world that really ages us and we consume WAY too much of it… Sugar. We spend billions a year on procedures to turn the clock back.  We spend even more on lotions, potions and tools to do the same.  What nobody thinks about is what you are doing everyday to negate […]