Sanctuary’s own nutritionist has some tips to share today! 10 Tips for Navigating the Holiday Parties 1. Make sure to stay hydrated with plenty of clean, filtered water. 1/2 your body weight in ounces is approximately what you should be drinking. Oftentimes we think we are hungry, when in fact we are simply dehydrated. Ensuring you…
Heart disease… We all know someone touched by it, always in a unwanted way. Millions of Americans suffer blockages in their hearts’ arteries, leading to pain, disability, even death. Multiple culprits have been blamed. Countless remedies and diets have been proposed to both prevent and cure its dark touch. The Mediterranean diet stands out among…
Okay, I have to admit when I am wrong. Many times I have said that there seems to be no ill health issue that mold cannot cause. In digging for any new information on mold toxicity, I ran across this article from 2016. While even the authors admit that more research could be done to…
It’s that time of year where we begin to struggle with Holiday goodies…cakes, cookies and candy. Don’t fret! There are alternatives that the kids and guests will love. These refined sugar free cookies will win everyone over and not hamper your goals to live a healthy, abundant life. INGREDIENTS 2 cups almond flour 1/2 tsp baking powder* 1/4 tsp salt…
Clinical and research medicine has long searched for keys to overcome bacterial resistance when treating patients for recurrent or stubborn infections. Researchers have found various means to overcome bacterial resistance in many cases. They have produced whole new classes of antibiotics, They have altered old antibiotics over and over, either increasing their killing power or…
I often feel like a street preacher, proclaiming time and time again the interconnectedness of our body systems. At other times, I feel a little crazy, talking to myself about the very same things. Here, both déjà vu’s come to the fore as I did not see this one coming but “feel” like I should…
Menopause, defined simply as the ceasing of menstruation, brings with it a plethora of changes to a woman’s body. Although there are a variety of reasons for a woman’s monthly cycle to stop, the most common one is menopause due to hormone loss, and specifically, estradiol, or estrogen loss. Although we are increasingly seeing women…
Lemons to lemonade…. It can seem such a long way from one to the other- at least from our mortal perspective. Today, I meditated upon an old favorite – Psalm 147. In past years, it has provided great comfort. I hope that each person taking the time to read this will take more time to…
The science of the gut microbiome exploded in recent years. More and more connections arise from lab experiments at a dizzying pace. This time we learn that certain Bacillus and Staphylococcus aureus don’t get along in the neighborhood. Staph aureus makes headlines as a nasty bug, even at times a superbug resistant to multiple antibiotics,…
Epidemiological studies either peer back into time looking for patterns or arrange monitoring of future variables looking for the same patterns. Data is analyzed and … sometimes nothing. When a pattern does arise out of the fog, they then have to go searching for biological links. Patterns may only indicate correlation but not causation, meaning…