by ashleysed | Mar 11, 2019 | Gut Health, Holistic Healthcare, Product Spotlight
I follow a Functional Medicine Approach to Gut Health: Remove, Replace, Re-inoculate, Repair. What that means to me a little more specifically is Eating a nutrient dense diet, including little to no sugar and lots of fermented foods. Also making sure you aren’t...
by ashleysed | Mar 4, 2019 | Food and Kitchen Basics, Gut Health, Product Spotlight
Kombucha is a fermented fizzy probiotic beverage. The base is tea (in the case of our favorite, organic green and black tea), sugar (in the case of our favorite, organic cane sugar) and a scoby (which stands for symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast). The scoby is a...
by ashleysed | Jan 8, 2019 | Food and Kitchen Basics, Gut Health, Lifestyle
I stumbled upon gluten free not by choice. Our entire family was eating gluten, although what I considered to be better sources. Almost always sprouted grains, but if not sprouted, at a minimum whole wheat. Then my son developed some skin issues in 2017, which changed...
by ashleysed | Dec 20, 2018 | Food and Kitchen Basics, Gut Health, Holistic Healthcare, Lifestyle
The modern world is looking for magic pill, magic food or magic self care technique to help them with their issues. Have you found it? It doesn’t exist. An overall diet and lifestyle built to decrease stress and inflammation is the key, in my opinion. In addition, I...