Let’s Talk About Peeing Your Pants
Do you experience urgency incontinence or stress incontinence? Leaking urine may be common but it is not normal. Here are a few things to know when it comes to peeing, leaking and other things that no one talks about.
Get to Know Your Cycle
I find more and more that women and folx AFAB don’t know the ins and outs of how their own body works. The focus today is the female menstrual cycle: what happens, when it happens and how to support yourself through each phase.
Hormones: Where To Start
What causes hormone imbalance? What are symptoms of hormone imbalances? What about Birth Control? What else can hormonal birth control do? What can I do to help my hormones? All these questions answered and more!
Let’s Talk About Poop
Let's talk about what our fecal matter (poop) is made up of. It consists of food particles that we don’t need, metabolic waste which includes toxins and hormones, as well as bacteria. Ideal transit time is 18-24 hours - aka pooping 1 x day.
Why do I eat the way I eat?
There is no right or wrong way to eat. The proof is in the pudding. It’s about how food makes you feel. Generally speaking, food that is not the best for us (refined sugar, alcohol, processed foods etc) tends to not make us feel great. This is something that you may or may not know from experience. The important part of all of this is to really listen to what your body is telling you.
What are Probiotics?
The role of the bacteria in our body is to protect the gut lining and determine what can and cannot get into the bloodstream. If bad things get into our bloodstream then our body will attack it which can look like increased inflammation or an allergic reaction. If this continues to happen over time this can lead to autoimmune disease.
Hummus With A Kick!
Hummus is one of my favorite things to make and eat. It always reminds me of hanging out at my friends house in high school. Her mom would always have hummus and tabbouleh on hand and we would eat it with pita. Oh it was so good.
After college I decided to start making my own and realized how easy it is. I finally developed a recipe that checked all the boxes for me. Delicious and spicy!
What is Functional Nutrition?
Our medical system in the US does a great job of diagnosing health issues and prescribing interventions. What happens if your results don’t lead to a diagnosis? What happens if the intervention given does not improve your symptoms or only temporarily improve them? Then what? Western medicine is trained to treat symptoms. Sometimes that is all you need - but sometimes it's not. Functional nutrition is a way to help connect you to your body. This is done by changing the food you eat and assessing how your body responds to that change…