Trauma nutrition is working with a body in an altered and sometimes halted or regressed growth state. Not only are the needs vastly different as far as nutritional levels but the actual body's physiology and what it's capable of doing is completely different. Trauma nutrition involves needs nutrition rather than growth and optimal nutrition, and it incorporates specific eating styles, food choices, and supplemental nutrients to support biochemistry and mood regulation.

Learn why intermittment fasting is all the rage, but from a nutritionist’s perspective may not be entirely appropriate. Here’s why…

Instead of preventing, learn to sit with the symptom and the thoughts you are thinking about it, the emotions that it brings up, and how you physically feel with it all. I guarantee, if you pay attention, your body unearths unresolved concepts, beliefs, and situations that are waiting to be addressed. You can’t ignore them as easily if they are physically in your way!

This week’s blog brought to you by all of those suffering from unexplained asthma, allergies, digestive and inflammatory illnesses. These clients may have experienced symptoms since youth, or they may find that as life has progressed, symptoms have gotten worse with no answers, or more and more foods are less and less tolerated.

Going beyond nutrition to molecular biochemistry, we see that there is more we can do on a nutritional level with little known compounds called….phenolics.

Migraines are a neurological condition that is believed to be caused by changes in the brain and the surrounding blood vessels. It is not fully understood why some people are more susceptible to migraines than others, but there are several factors that have been identified as triggers for migraines, including stress, certain foods, hormonal changes, changes in sleep patterns, and environmental factors. Now, I’m believing there is another cause.