What’s the connection between Histamine and your Gut? It’s not always just…Achoooo! A little over a year ago I had some tests run which showed my inflammatory markers off the charts. To give you an idea, the normal range on one score was somewhere between like 80 and 200. My…
Hello Sunshine! Did you Get Your D Today?? I just enjoyed a nice bacon & egg breakfast and now I’m going to grab a book & relax in the sun. I have the basics to make some good quality vitamin D! Vitamin D is made in your skin from sunlight and cholesterol. Yes! Cholesterol…
What’s Kefir??? Kefir (Ka-feer) is a cultured milk beverage similar to yogurt which is made by fermenting milk using cultures called grains or SCOBY’s (Symbiotic Cultures Of Bacteria & Yeast). These cultures are bound together in little globs of proteins, fats and sugars which kind of look like cottage cheese or cauliflower. You can also purchase…
Has Your Gut Sprung a Leak??? A couple years ago if you walked into your doctor’s office and said “I think I have a Leaky Gut”. You would probably walk out of that visit with a prescription for an antipsychotic drug. These days “Leaky Gut” is a buzzword!! You see…
Because it’s the things you do EVERYDAY that have the biggest impact on your health! We have all been our own nutritional consultants at one point or another in our lives. If you’ve ever said “I really need to lose this weight before “bikini season” or “I really need to…
A dream come true for the Gluten Sensitive Chocolate Lover! If you’re gonna be bad….do it “Well”! These Bad Boys were so delicious that I had to guard them with my butcher knife! Seriously… No sneaky fingers were safe in my kitchen!! AND they were actually pretty healthy too!!…
I dare you to say that ten times fast! People have been fermenting and culturing food for centuries. Long before the invention of the refrigerator people had to find ways to preserve food. It’s strange to me that today there is such an emphasis on sterilization when not so long…
Did you know that the number of human cells in our bodies may be as much as a fraction of the number of bacterial cells?? Depending on who you listen to, some claim that bacterial cells outnumber human cells ten to one! Whereas others claim there is a much smaller…
As I mentioned before, this could not be an official blog about Tummies without a recipe for Bone Broth! What’s the first thing your mom and your grandma did when you got sick? Make a big pot of Chicken soup! Well, there is a reason behind that. Bone broth…
What DO I Eat?? So now you’ve made the decision to improve your health and to start eating better. What does that really mean? Just like digestion starts in the brain so does every decision and every action you make. The first thing you want to do is…