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RESTORING THE GUT FOR INTUITIVE EATING
"Intuitive Eating" is a recently popular term used to empower individuals against "diet culture" and its perceived limitations of "good" and "bad." Intuitive Eating (IE) is sited as "an evidence-based health approach created in 1995 by two dietitians, Elyse Resche and Evelyn Tribole." The idea of Intuitive Eating is nice. The studies have discovered that "diets" don't work and the shame...
IT'S TIME TO TALK ABOUT "HEALTH" CARE
It's time that we have a REAL talk about "Health" care. It's no secret that now is a rough time to be in Holistic Health, prevention and functional medicine. Diet, lifestyle and emotional health aren't exactly being touted as a means to stay healthy. The unfortunate side effect of a highly pharmaceutically driven society, is skyrocketing numbers of chronic disease and...
DON'T BE A HEALTH COACH
We aren't "Health Coaches." We aren't parents, partners, doctors or professionals. We aren't bosses and we sure as heck aren't authorities! The biggest impact that we can make on the world, be it our clients, friends, family or community is to EMPOWER THEM IN THEMSELVES! This DOESN'T mean that you don't have a acceptional specialty or level of insight or...
Addiction and The Gut Microbiome
It’s easy to judge the person on the street, seemingly strung out, wasted from a likely combination of mental health and personal choices or the parent of the child throwing a massive tantrum in the middle of a crowded market but truth be told, the brain-gut-behavior circuit may be more complex than originally thought. Compulsive behaviors aren’t just traits...