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What is Personalized Medicine? A New Way Of Looking at Health Care
Greetings to you—the women, the men, the health warriors and advocates—who follow my good friend and colleague, Sara Gottfried, MD. I am Dr. Jeff Bland and there is a very good chance this is the first time you have heard my name (and that’s okay). But I’m not new on the scene, believe me—the medicine…
3 Tips for Staying Healthy When There’s a Bun in the Oven (Or Soon to Be One!)
If you ask any newly pregnant woman if she prefers a boy or a girl, you’re bound to hear one resounding statement: I just want a healthy baby. Every soon-to-be mama wants her baby to be as nourished and well protected as possible, and this requires the mother’s own health be in tip-top shape during…
How to Rock the Hay-bale: My First Fashion Show for Fibershed A.K.A. The 150-Mile Wardrobe
Recently, I walked my first runway. No, it wasn’t New York Fashion Week. It was a straw-bale runway in rural Point Reyes Station, CA. Does that challenge your idea of fashion? Make you rethink glamour? That’s the point. That’s why eco-visionary and author Rebecca Burgess asked friends in the fledgling eco-fashion realm to design some foxy togs…
What You Don’t Know About Allergies May Be Causing You Unnecessary Suffering
When my son Cody was born, what should have been the happiest time of my life quickly became a nightmare. At three months old, my baby was plagued with allergies – and I don’t mean simple rashes and sneezing. Cody suffered from a range of severe allergic reactions, including hives and intense rashes that wouldn’t…
Food Addiction (Part 1): The Science Behind the Syndrome
Are you addicted to food? Take my free food addiction quiz and find out. Maybe you have a happy relationship with food. Beyond eating for survival, you enjoy food in moderation and know that it provides nutrition, joy, and health. When you’re normal, food is neutral. For some people, though, food is an obsession that dominates…
6 Tips for Loving Your Gut and Healing Digestive Problems Naturally
Your gut doesn’t lie. It gives you that “gut reaction” when something isn’t quite right; it growls when you’re hungry; and a stomach upset is sometimes the first symptom of something amiss in your body. Indeed, your gut may be the most forthcoming part of your body, unable to mask the symptoms when something is…
Hair Loss, Hormones and How to Regain Your Luscious Locks
If there’s one thing in the world that a woman takes seriously, it’s her hair. We cut it, we style it, we love it, we loathe it. Let’s be honest – good hair makes us feel confident and sexy. So what’s a girl to do when those lovely locks start shedding? After giving birth, reaching…
Does Meat Cause Cancer? Revisiting the Meat, IGF-1, and Cancer Connection
“A note from Dr. Sara: When you read Personal Paleo Code by Chris Kresser, and try to reconcile the Paleo Diet with T. Colin Campbell’s The China Study and/or Joel Fuhrman’s Eat to Live, you’re likely to get increasingly confused by the conflicting opinions. I’m delighted to present Brian Rigby’s rigorous synthesis of where we stand on the meat/cancer…
The Earth Beneath Your Feet (Part 1): Why Going Barefoot May Boost Your Health and Beauty (and Dirt Just Might Act as a Giant Antioxidant)
Are you ready to get healthier and love up those ever-challenged adrenal glands by trying something new, old, and easy called earthing? I’m all about easy. And free? Who isn’t totally into that? Kick off your shoes. It’s that simple. This health and beauty treatment is as old as dirt. In fact, it is dirt.…