Drink your solids, chew your liquids is a common principle encouraged by many holistic and integrative practitioners.  But what does that mean and how is that possible?  Through chewing!  Slowing down and taking time to thoroughly chew your food benefits your health...

In the following article, Liane Paulson, of Wow Wow LLC, describes how fermented foods can promote optimal gut health.  Learn how you can included fermented foods in your daily diet. “All disease begins in the gut,” says Hippocrates, the father of medicine. If disease...

We are more than just physical beings reliant on food and water to survive.  Inside each of us there is a life force that we call the soul.  You can’t see, touch or test the soul, yet it is critical to our health and happiness.  Nurturing your mental, spiritual and...

Benjamin Franklin said “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”  Yet when it comes to medicine, it seems like we are still focused on a cure instead of averting the condition. The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) published its final recommendations...

I often talk about the importance of exercise and how the mechanical stress induced by impact exercise stimulates positive bone remodeling. Emerging research indicates that psychological and emotional stress also influences the bone, but NOT in a positive way.   To...

Exercise is one of the most under appreciated treatments for osteoporosis. Study after study show how exercise not only helps to build bone, but also strengthens muscles and improves balance. It is well known that the loading and stressing of bone that occurs when...

  If you have been reading my blog posts over the last year, you know how important good nutrition is to building and maintaining strong bones.  You also know that good bone health is not as simple as getting enough calcium and vitamin D.  There are many vitamins and...

Remember the Chia pet?  Those adorable terracotta pots shaped like animals or people covered with chia seeds and when the seeds sprout, they look like they have grown hair or fur.  Fortunately, the use of Chia seeds has evolved past the fun of a hair growing pet and...

February is American Heart month, and as it comes to a close, I want to highlight the curious connection between heart disease and osteoporosis.  It seems strange that the weakening of hard, rigid bones that occurs with osteoporosis could be associated with stiffening...