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For a few years, we’ve known that my daughter Eva got periodic stomach aches when she ate gluten or sugar. It wasn’t every time, but regularly enough that even a then 14 year old saw the connection. As a nutritionist, I’ve learned that the “gold standard” for identifying food sensitivities is an elimination diet. If…

As a nutritionist, a big part of my job is untangling nutritional fact from fiction. I completely sympathize with people who feel overwhelmed and beat up by the black and white “eat this/don’t eat that” food rules that seem to change every day. We want so much to do the “right” thing when it comes…

It’s becoming obvious: menu planning and world peace go hand-in-hand. Lately, no matter what the health issue we’re addressing, I find myself circling back to the practice of menu planning with my clients. Menu planning can be done in countless ways and really isn’t complicated at all. Perhaps because it is uncomplicated and easy, we…

What you do for yourself – any gesture of kindness, any gesture of gentleness, any gesture of honesty and clear seeing toward yourself – will affect how you experience your world. In fact, it will transform how you experience the world. What you do for yourself, you’re doing for others, and what you do for…

Hello, my friends! I hope you are doing well. It’s a transitional time of year. Even here in California where the seasons aren’t so distinct, the quality and angle of light changes in a way that signals fall. Internally, I feel a call to prepare for hibernation. Over the spring and summer, I’ve been “all…

Do you need to detox? Well, the short answer is yes. We all do. The long answer… If you haven’t noticed, we’re living in a toxic soup. Our mattresses are off-gassing flame retardants. Our water bottles are leaching xenoestrogens into the water we drink. Many of our foods have been grown in pesticide-soaked soil. The…

There have been a number of fascinating articles published over the last year in mainstream media: last summer, an article in The Economist entitled “The Human Microbiome: Me, Myself and Us;” or this summer, Michael Pollan’s “Some of My Best Friends are Germs” published in The New York Times. You also may be reading with…

Hello my friends, Recently, I attended the annual conference of the National Association of Nutrition Professionals. One of the seminars was “Advanced Nutrient Therapy to Heal Brain Imbalances” presented by internationally recognized expert, William Walsh, PhD. He has had a lengthy, awe-inspiring career (and he’s not done yet). A chemical engineer by training, Dr. Walsh…