
8 Ways To Boost Your Good Gut Bacteria
It's crucial to take care of your microbiome. Here's how.
It's crucial to take care of your microbiome. Here's how.
These recommendations for a keto-inspired, plant-based lifestyle are rooted in a combination of approaches: plant-based, paleo, “slow carb,” ketogenic, and just generally healthy.
The fastest way to turn your diet around? To go from not-so-great to almost perfect? The answer is organic leafy greens – those life-supporting, health-inducing, nutrient-packed edibles that should take up most of the space on your plate at every meal – not just at dinnertime. Eat them or drink them, but just get them into your body every day – that’s my leafy green mantra, and I hope you will make it yours. Need a little more encouragement? Here’s the top-line low-down on my favorite health-promoters, the “leafys”:
If you are an avid Be Well follower, you should be aware by now of our firm belief that true health starts in the gut. A balanced gut keeps immunity up (especially during the winter months), helps to stabilize mood, and can help to ward off illnesses. Below are some of my favorite ingredients to include into a daily regimen loaded into a healing and balancing immunity boosting tonic smoothie.
While following this grain-free, Paleo diet, the body can normalize hunger hormones, repair the gut and begin to shed extra weight, however there are a few common setbacks that can cause people to fall off track. Here are 5 common “Paleo Pitfalls", and how you can avoid them...
The bacterial strains that live in your gut are influencing your behavior, making the task of defeating cravings more than simply a matter of willpower.
Constipation is one of those everyday ills that can slow you down, make you feel out of sorts, and, if chronic, can actually damage your system.
More nutrient-dense than nuts, flaxseed is one of those no-brainer health boosters that no pantry (or diet) should be without.
Pumpkins aren’t just big orange gourds you carve before Halloween — they're packed with nutrients.
Reason number one? Most juices have enough sugar to stand toe-to-toe with a can of Mountain Dew.
If you don’t already know about these superfoods, my recommendation is to get them in your pantry ASAP! These versatile foods are great added to smoothies or tossed into a salad. Here’s what you’re missing out if you don’t give them a try.
Coming out of 10 years of chronic illness has made me look at life in a different way. I’ve realized that things happen for us, not to us; something new comes into our lives or something happens to make us change. For me it was Lyme disease, PCOS, hypothyroidism, leaky gut, and so much more. When I had to cut out gluten, dairy, soy, sugar, and corn, I thought my life was ending but I learned that we can come out of any struggle in our life on the other side of it and prove to ourselves that we can not only survive, but thrive.