Recipes and Tips to Optimize Carb and Fat Digestion
Ease digestive symptoms with these preparation hacks
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Digestion
Functional nutrition education and advice for digestive symptoms such as bloating, gas, constipation, diarrhea, heartburn, SIBO, colitis and celiac. Includes tips, recipes, and supplements to improve digestion.
Poor Digestion Can Cause Bloating & Fatigue – Part 2: Carb & Fat Digestion
Maximize carb & fat digestion and absorption to reduce gut symptoms and increase energy
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Digest Protein with Ease: Five Tips for Preparing both Plant- and Animal-Based Protein
Properly digesting protein can help increase your body’s nutrient absorption
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Poor Digestion Can Cause Fatigue – Part 1: Protein
Maximize your protein digestion and absorption to reduce gut symptoms and increase energy levels
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Are nutrient deficiencies causing your fatigue?
Hormone imbalances – including estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone – can contribute to chronic fatigue and low energy for men and women.
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Thyroid and Gut Health
Thyroid diseases and gut issues often go hand in hand. Not only do hormones produced by the thyroid affect digestive health, digestive issues can cause nutrient deficiencies that can impair the thyroid’s ability to produce these hormones. In other words, poor gut health can suppress thyroid function, and poor thyroid function can lead to poor
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Balance Stress to Improve Digestion
For me, the year 2020 often felt like a period of constant stress everywhere from low to moderate and high. This may even be one of the few times that being bored was actually stressful. We’ve turned the page on the calendar and are trying to be optimistic for 2021. Even as our lives get
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Prebiotics and Prebiotic Foods
Prebiotic Foods Prebiotic foods feed the good “bugs” in your digestive tract to help balance immunity, metabolism, and mood, heal leaky gut and maximize digestion. One type of prebiotic is from resistant starch. Dr. Christian’s article provides more information and tips about resistant starch. Watch for and report any gas or bloating when eating these foods.
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Why I Don’t Eat Gluten – my personal story
A few years ago, I was flying back to Colorado from my original home in Boston. It was the evening after my uncle’s funeral. He died of lung cancer, which still surprises me. I was alone on this leg of my journey and emotionally vulnerable. While in Logan airport, I felt that I needed a
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Are the holidays affecting your gut? How your emotions affect digestion
The holidays are upon us! Are the holidays a festive time for you or are those festivities mixed with a little stress? With less daylight during this season, we should be spending time inward, peacefully snuggled up at home with a good book by the fire. However the holidays call us out of our nest
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