6 Common Nutrient Deficiencies and How to Combat Them
If you frequently experience bouts of fatigue, pain, anxiety, brain fog, insomnia, irregular heartbeat, hair loss, or infections, you are not alone. Many of my clients come to me with these symptoms looking for answers they struggle to obtain elsewhere. As a holistic nutritionist, one of the first things I assess with my new clients is potential nutrient deficiencies. Because all too often, unexplained symptoms like the ones above result from insufficient intakes of essential vitamins and minerals. So, let’s break down the six most common nutrient deficiencies I see in my practice and how to overcome them…
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Holiday Hack: Setting Healthy Boundaries
As we approach the holiday season, we typically find that our calendars and to-do lists quickly fill up with gift shopping, dinner parties, Christmas movie marathons, and family get-togethers. These occasions are all part of the joy of the season! Still, when we accept one-too-many holiday invitations or start putting everyone else’s needs above our own, the magic of the season can turn into madness….
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A Holistic Nutritionist’s Tips for a Healthy Pregnancy
As an expectant mother, the moment you hear your baby’s heartbeat for the very first time is truly indescribable! Your own heart meets the rhythm of your little one’s as feelings of joy, disbelief, gratitude, and amazement overwhelm you….
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The Link Between Gut Health and Menopause: How Nutrition Might Help
What comes to mind when you see or hear the word menopause? I know for most of my clients, menopause often provokes a gut-wrenching reaction being that it’s typically associated with uncomfortable symptoms, such as hot flashes, night sweats, migraines, and mood fluctuations. Well, believe it or not, this inevitable stage of a woman’s life doesn’t have to be as terrible as it’s normally depicted—actually, it’s not supposed to be terrible at all….
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The Best Foods to Optimize Hormone Balance in Pre, Peri, and Post-Menopause
Balancing hormones can be a tricky task, especially for those assigned female at birth who experience monthly hormonal cycles that impact their mood, thoughts, and physical well-being. In this article, we'll explore how to use food to balance hormones and optimize our health during the different phases of the hormonal cycle, providing tips and insight into how to live a more balanced life…
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Fiber Basics: What Is It & Why Is It So Important for Health?
Riddle time! Here are your hints: It is not digestible by the body, yet hardly anyone eats enough of it. It is calorie-free, yet it will make you feel satiated. It is hugely important for everything from digestion to heart health, blood sugar regulation, and beyond….
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Our Kids Deserve Better Sex Education Than We Got
Most of us who hit puberty in America in the 1990s and early 2000s never got a real sex talk. If we did, it was threatening and scary, focusing on purity and infections. We were told not to have sex because it could result in pregnancy. We were not taught about sexuality as a crucial part of being human or about how to navigate sexual relationships, including consent and how to control if/when we got pregnant…
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The Founder of The Classical Acupuncture Mentorship on Chinese Medicine & Integrative Approaches to Women's Health
Meet Doctor of Oriental Medicine, herb expert, and acupuncturist, Dr. Sean Tuten. In this intensive interview, we sat down with the Founder of The Classical Acupuncture Mentorship to discuss Chinese Medicine, deep hydration, and more…
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How to Detox from Common Toxins (& Why it’s Important!)
Are you experiencing bloating, weight loss resistance, and anxiety? It may be time to detox your body. Almost every summer and around the holidays, when I’m traveling a lot and eating more treats than usual, I notice my muscles are achy, and my brain is foggy. These signs are always reasonable indications that it’s time to detox from common toxins that surround us every day…
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Essential Gifts for the Essential Workers In Your Life
Anyone who provides critical services to the public has a tough job. The hours are long and the work, grueling. The last few years, the pandemic has required essential workers to risk their mental and physical health to care for us in extreme circumstances, and they are stretched beyond their limits. We’ve interviewed some essential workers in education and healthcare to get a peek at their Santa’s wish lists this year…
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What’s the Difference Between Animal and Plant Iron?
Let’s talk about iron. It’s a micronutrient that is essential for growth and development. The human body uses iron to form hemoglobin, the protein in red blood cells that transports oxygen around the body to various organs and tissues. This is crucial because adequate oxygen is required by tissues to perform their various functions effectively…
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Gut Health 101 with Holistic Nutritionist Elissa Goodman
As a holistic nutritionist, it’s my passion to help others embrace a healthy lifestyle that allows them to live wholly. This is in part because I know what it’s like to live life feeling, well, less than your best. Although today I am the happiest and healthiest I have ever been, it took years of nourishment, love, and some hard work to get here….
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Overwhelmed By Motherhood and Marriage? It’s Not Because You’re Doing It Wrong
It has been well-documented that COVID has only increased the weight women in families carry. On author and activist Glennon Doyle’s popular podcast, “We Can Do Hard Things,” she and her cohost and sister, Amanda Doyle, recently discussed women’s Overwhelm. They describe having a ticker of things to do, to worry about, to fix, to anticipate and oversee, always running through their heads, and how carrying the burden of their family members and colleagues’ comfort, safety, health, and success on their backs is flattening them…
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Wondering How to Get Rid of Lingering COVID Symptoms? Try Eating These Foods
Did you know that a lot of people who were diagnosed with COVID are still suffering from lingering symptoms? These people are called COVID long haulers, and they can suffer from health problems for months after recovering from the illness. These long-lasting symptoms can include breathing issues, headaches, and muscle pains…
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8 Ways to Boost Metabolism as You Age (Naturally!)
Are you finding it harder to lose weight as you age? If so, you are far from alone! The underlying cause of your unintentional weight gain is likely related to your metabolism. As we age, our metabolisms slow down…
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The Weight and Cost of Heavy Breasts: A Starter Guide to Breast Reduction Surgery
Large, heavy breasts negatively impact women’s health and lives. Excessive breast tissue, or macromastia, can cause back, neck, and shoulder pain, hand, and arm numbness from impact on nerves, abrasions or indentations on the shoulders from bra straps, and skin infections under the breasts, among other problems….
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How to Balance Your Blood Sugar (Naturally!)
Do you ever feel tired, lightheaded, or anxious between meals? If so, your blood sugar might be the culprit! Let’s back it up and talk a little blood sugar 101…
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Melatonin: A Key Supplement for Inflammation Reduction
I’ve been trying to pay special attention to maintaining a proper circadian rhythm by scheduling regular outdoor activity and sticking to a consistent nighttime routine, even when it gets dark at 4 pm now. I also regularly use one of my favorite supplements, melatonin, to keep my circadian rhythm in check throughout the darker months…..
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Your Low Carb Diet Might Be Harming Your Gut
When people think of carbs, warning bells often sound in the brain. We have been conditioned to fear carbohydrates as the doer of all evi…
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