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Unpredictable Hangovers and Your Thyroid
Attending a Thursday happy hour with coworkers and downing a few glasses of chardonnay. Toasting your best friend’s engagement with some champagne. Putting on your ...
Stress and Anxiety: Holidays-Induced? Or Are You Vitamin Deficient?
What do you do when anxiety takes over? What do you reach for? How well does it work? The key to quelling a panic attack ...
Is Your Home Toxic? Learn How to Find The Culprits
You could be doing all the things for your health: organic produce, daily exercise, positive affirmations in the mirror every morning, all the things. You ...
Women in Wellness: Maria Zamarripa, RD
I am starting a series where I record conversations I have with other women in wellness. I have a couple of reasons for ...
Beyond Cranberry Juice: My Holistic Approach to UTI’s
It’s literally one of the worst feelings. If you have experienced a urinary tract infection before, you’ll know what I’m talking about: feeling like you ...
Stressed? Beat Adrenal Fatigue with This Adaptogenic Herb
When life hits the fan, I call in superpower backup. This adaptogen is my favorite to beat stress and adrenal fatigue, hands down. It’s ...
The One Strategy You Need To Start Seeing Results Now
Sometimes the hardest part about improving your health is just knowing where to start. Sure, you could revamp your whole life and start waking up ...
The Truth About Chocolate & Choosing the Best, Most Ethical Raw Cacao
Ladies, I’m ending the chocolate-loving shame right here and now. The truth is, chocolate isn’t unhealthy. Well, more specifically, cacao isn’t unhealthy. The sugars and ...
Britt’s Tips: 8 Travel Tips For Restrictive Diets
One of the biggest benefits of travel is that it gets you out of your comfort zone. You get to experience new people, different ...
Redefine Perfection for a Healthy Life (This One’s for You, Type-A)
Define perfect. Seriously, pause, take a breath, and define the word perfect. Then notice what you are referencing in your definition – is it something ...
Britt’s Tips: 10 Strategies To Get A Great Night’s Sleep
Sleep. It’s funny to think about that part of our 24-hour day where we aren’t actually doing anything as one of the most important ingredients ...
The Four Crucial Steps to Reducing Sugar Cravings
Have you been looking for practical solutions to address your sugar cravings? If so, you are not alone! Sheer willpower often doesn’t cut it. What ...
Britt’s Tips: 8 Easy Ways to Boost Your Digestion and Heal Your Gut
\You’ve heard it before: Health starts in the gut. Sure, you know the rhetoric, but what does that look like in action? What does that ...
Home-Brewed Kombucha Recipe
Kombucha is more than just a health-food trend or an overpriced beverage for hipsters. It’s a traditional fermented tea that offers numerous nutrition benefits including ...
Ginger Hibiscus Lemonade
Move over Starbucks Shaken Iced Tea Lemonade, there’s a new summer beverage in town and it’s A-MA-ZING! Meet my very own Ginger Hibiscus Lemonade! What ...
What’s The Deal With Soy?
As a Nutritionist, I get asked this question all the time, “What’s the deal with soy? Should I eat it? Will it wreck my health?”. ...
Is Sugar Interrupting Sleep?
It’s so common to eat our biggest meal as dinner, followed by dessert (or even a night-cap) that we might not consider the negative impact ...
Is healthy food disgusting?
I’ve heard it too many times to count: “I want to follow a healthy diet, but I hate the way healthy food tastes.” Many people ...
Self-Hacking Behavior Change: Goal Setting Guide
As a Functional Medicine Nutritionist, I understand that it’s important to support clients in implementing diet and lifestyle changes. Plans with no action means that ...
Breaking Out of Debtors’ Prison: A Functional Medicine Approach to Wellness
Let me be totally open and vulnerable with you. I used to be terrible at managing my finances… which is actually quite embarrassing when you ...
Glycemic Index & Glycemic Load
The parts that make up our bodies conspire at all times to keep us alive. Our cells require constant energy to function. Some of these ...