If you've read my the heartburn myth post that explains that for a lot of people the real problem is too little stomach acid, not too much and you're ready to stop leaning on that little pill. This is the practical how-to. The goal isn&
Here's a story I've heard a hundred times. Someone gets heartburn. They go to the doctor. They're told they have too much stomach acid, handed a little purple pill, and sent home. The burning calms down for a while — so the pill must be
When I first got certified as a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, I wrote a careful little code of ethics. It leaned on the Nutritional Therapy Association's official version, it was respectful of conventional medicine, and it was honest. I meant every word at the time.I'm rewriting
When you reach for ibuprofen for a headache or sore joints, you're intervening in one of the body's most important chemical processes. That process exists for a reason. Understanding how it works — and what disrupts it before you ever open the medicine cabinet — changes how you
When I first went Paleo, I followed the rules. No grains, no legumes, no processed food. And it worked — I felt better, my energy stabilized, the brain fog lifted. But the protocol also said to ditch dairy. So I tried. Three weeks without cheese, I felt no different. No digestive
Most people think digestion is a stomach thing. You eat, the stomach does something, and nutrients go in. That's about a third of the story. The full picture starts in your brain and ends at your colon, with a series of critical handoffs in between. When any one
A nutritional therapy consultation doesn't look much like a doctor's appointment. There's no prescription pad, no five-minute window, and no single number being optimized. The goal is different: figure out what's actually going on with this specific person and build a
When a system is broken, the worst thing you can do is treat the symptom. I learned that in IT. It turned out to be even more true for the body.
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