One question that I get asked often is "How do you know if a food is healthy??" With tons of conflicting information at our fingertips, it can be easy to feel confused, overwhelmed and defeated by what's actually health-supporting and what's not. Over my years of research (academic, professional and personal), training and experience, I have come to these 2 simple distinctions to scale your food as healthy or optimal. This is ultimately what we are striving for...take baby st

“When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.” ~Ancient Ayurvedic Proverb “Let food by thy medicine and let medicine be thy food.” ~Hippocrates I believe that everything is energy, and energy is continually in a cause & effect motion. Energy comes in the form of all things tangible and intangible: emotions, food, substances, thoughts, environment, movement…just to name a few. I spent most of my life hating my body, and being stuck i

At the end of the year, I mapped out what I wanted my 2013 to look like, and set a number of goals. Although I had goals set in the spiritual, health & fitness, financial, creative and personal realms, there were 2 health goals that stuck out to me that I was eager to take action on: 1) to get off both my medications by the end of the year; 2) to take on at least a 75% plant-based diet. Starting January 1st, I took some beginning steps. I had been studying and dabbling with a

EVERY SINGLE DAY give thanks and gratitude for your health. I just finished with a doctor’s appointment with my allergist, who I haven’t seen in a year. He would continually tell me I was one of the most complex and severe of all his patients. I was dealing with an aggressive form of chronic hives and angioedema– a painful and debilitating inflammatory condition. Exactly one year ago, I was experiencing one of my worst episodes of swelling in the face, mouth, hands and feet,