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How Toxins Affect Your Health
Toxins are ONE of FOUR CAUSES of chronic disease. There certainly is no shortage of toxins out there, and if you keep reading, you can see that toxins damage DNA, your nervous system, your endocrine...
How to Heal Food Sensitivities
Food allergies and food sensitivities are NOT the same. I clarified that topic, and you can read the difference between food allergies and food sensitivities here. I also explained why I no longer...
Food Sensitivity Testing
Should I get a food sensitivity test? I get asked that question a lot!!! What is a food sensitivity? An example of a food sensitivity is when you eat a food and get a reaction, which could be...
Why Diet Plays a Role in Immune Health
Diet plays a role in immune health because certain foods KILL pathogens. And, certain foods FEED pathogens, which are a major root cause of disease and unwellnsss. We do not want to feed the players...
Have You Heard About “Lab Grown Meat”?
Lab grown meats are here so what should you know about them? As your nutritionist, I do think you should avoid them, and I'm going to show you how to source your own local beef. There are two...
How Rebounding Can Improve Lymphatic Health
There are numerous health reasons you should be rebounding every day. Rebounding has a plethora of health benefits -- including lymphatic health and detoxification -- which we are focusing on...
10 Secrets And The Powerful Truth About Keto Diets
10 Secrets and the Powerful Truth About Keto & High Fat Diets Despite the media trends, a ketogenic diet is not something new. In the 1970s, Dr. Atkins popularized the low-carbohydrate ketogenic...
Corona Virus – Solutions So You Stay Safe!
2020 - The year of the Corona Virus! Aloha! Johny and I are safe and sound back from our trip to Hawaii. We had a good time seeing his side of the family and we enjoying the sun, the vitamin D it...
What is The Healthiest Diet Plan?
A whole foods, nutrient-rich, plant-based diet is the healthiest diet. Confused? I get it. For the vast majority of people, what to eat has become a VERY confusing topic. We are bombarded with...
2017 Life Update – Why I Was AWOL!
I'm here with the scoop about why I was AWOL in my nutrition business... How it all started... As you may know, I was told by my doctor that I had chronic neurological Lyme and Epstein Barr Virus in...
Methylation Do’s and Don’ts
What is methylation? The first time I heard the term methylation was in 2013. Dr. Jeff Bland and Dr. Bridget Briggs introduced it in an educational course I purchased. The information they...
6 (Unusual) Strategies To Stop A Flu In It’s Tracks!
With international travel and how connected we are these days, getting the flu is an all-year possibility. We're **all** exposed 24/7. Whether you get sick or not depends on the health of your...
Healing Vertigo, Tinnitus, and Neurological Damage
My goal in life as an integrative & functional nutritionist is to identify and treat root causes. Although I'm mostly going to be talking about vertigo today, the same root causes and...
Moving From Illness to Wellness – Yellowstone Valley Women’s Magazine 8-2017
I was recently interviewed for a story on Functional Medicine. Only 2 of us - Dr Roy Hall and myself - practice here in Billings, MT - Montana's largest city! This is the article they published....
How stress steals your youth and 7 easy, proven solutions
Today we are talking about stress solutions. I’ve written before about the harmful effects of stress and a stress solution. Here's an article I did about using your phone and a little device to...
Top Ten Travel Tips!
Travel Tips - Top 10! Traveling used to be this fun adventure. It still can be, if you are going somewhere fun. But there are some down sides too. Airport (radiation) scanners Radiation exposure...
Top 20 Reasons to Eat More Fruit!
Top 20 Reasons to Eat More Fruit! Today let's talk about the top 20 reasons to eat more fruit. Want to expedite your healing? Eat more fruit! Want to reverse or halt the aging process? Eat more...
Smoothies VS Juicing? 6 Reasons….
"Should I be juicing or blending smoothies?" I get asked this question a lot. Want better health? The answer is: BOTH. Smoothie Benefits Smoothies are essential because we DO need fiber to support...
My Lyme Recovery Protocol
I wrote in part 1 of this 2-part series about how I was diagnosed with Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) in March of 2015. And then despite working with a highly respected,...
My recovery from Chronic Fatigue, SIBO, Mold, Lyme…and Epstein Barr Virus
In part 1 of this 2-part blog, I'm going to bare all, and share my story about being diagnosed with Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) in the spring of 2015. And how my symptoms...
Guest Post by Johny Konoske – Food and Faith
The World of Healing With Food. An insider's perspective.. First of all, thanks for being interested in what I have to say. After all, she's the expert in all of this, not me. But for 7+ years...
Common Diet Questions Answered
As I talk with my patients and clients via 1:1 Coaching Sessions and Nutrition Foundations Group Coaching and Support Calls, and encourage them to eat more fruits, veggies, and leafy greens.....I...
Say NO To Breast Cancer Biopsies!
October is "Breast Cancer Awareness" Month. We all that wearing pink has become a sign of support. But I'm not here to encourage you to wear pink . Nor contribute to the Komen Foundation. In...
9 Reasons You Should Ask for a Thermogram (Instead of a Mammogram)
Last week I wrote about Preventing Breast Cancer - Top 8 Best Practices to significantly reduce your risk of breast cancer. If you haven't checked it out, you need to. If you...
How to Prevent Breast Cancer – Top 8 Best Practices
We all know someone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Rather than wait for the stressful diagnosis, today I'm going to teach you what you can do to PREVENT breast cancer (or any cancer...
Postpartum Depression – What You Need to Know
It seems like it's an epidemic, and you hear about Postpartum Depression (PPD) more and more often these days. Recently, in my Facebook news feed, was a story of a young mother who recently took her...
What B. burgdorferi (Lyme disease) and the Zika Virus have in common
Neither are to blame. I'm not even sure where to start. We spray chemicals all over our food. We still manufacture DDT and although it's illegal to use in the USA, we sell...
7 Reasons YOU Should Take Care of Your Liver!
4 things cause chronic disease: Diet Pathogens Toxins Stress That's it. Granted, each category is vast. But when you boil it all down, at the end of the day, there's nothing else we can blame it...
Announcement and Quick Favor
I announced in my previous newsletter - which was December of 2015 - that I was going to take some time off from my private practice. If you are a long-time reader, you maybe remember that...
We’re In This Together…
Dear family, friends, patients, and acquaintances As 2015 draws to a close, we all naturally reflect on how fast the year went right? I have to say though, I'm a little relieved to leave it...
1 Way I Manage Stress
I first heard about the health benefits of HeartMath at an IFM conference. Then I heard it again. Even again at this last IFM GI module I just went to. Well one day this past summer, when I found...
7 Hacks I’ve Done to Reduce My Electrical Pollution Toxin Burden
Edited 10/4/18 so be sure to read through the whole post! It seems like half of my life I've been "working on my health". So this past 6 months is no different really. I've been gluten free for 20...
5 New Findings Related to SIBO (Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth)
Most IBS is actually SIBO. Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth. You see, the small intestine is where digestion and absorption takes place...but it should be relatively sterile and free of...
4 Of My New Favorite Things!
I might have mentioned I finally upgraded to a smart phone this December. So my on-the-go social media posts got an upgrade as well. Since my Facebook posts are largely scheduled (you didn't really...
7 Ways To Ruin Your Digestive Tract
One of the health topics that interests me most is gut health. I love love love learning how our microbiome contributes to health in ways we never imagined 20 years ago. I also love love love...
My Exercise Routine in 2015 & Why!
Let's face it. For most of us, there aren't enough hours in the day. We've all been told, or told someone else, that we need to schedule in exercise just like we do everything else. I agree. I'd...
9 Habits Of Healthy People (Including Me!)
It’s no secret our diets have changed since the industrialization of food, 18 wheelers, and grocery stores with their shelf stable food. It is generally accepted that agricultural humans today have...
13 Ways to Eat Organic Without Going Broke
I fully realize the 'system' is wrong and unfair. Yes, it can seem more expensive to eat organic whole food & buy more produce...but seem is the key word. If you add the cost of cheap food +...
Guest Post: Natural Ways to Relieve Sunburn
Getting enough sunlight is an integral part of optimal health because it helps your body not only create vitamin D, but it enhances ALL of our vitamins, minerals, co-factors and anti-oxidants. It's...
Why Your Pooh is the Bomb
As a nutritionist, I’m big on poop. I want to talk about it for sure. And I might want you to do a stool test. Why? Your poop can tell me a lot about 2 things: the...