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Fiber Is the New Sexy
What could be more sexy than a beautiful gut? All glistening and shiny, doing it’s job just right, not inflamed, not allergic, just all happy? Fiber takes you there: removes toxins, keeps things moving, gives you a sense of satiety. Most important? Fiber protects your gut from injury and disease. Let’s get some.
Take On Your Weight Issues with Mystic Marianne Williamson
When cleansing, I love to dive deep into mystical teachings along with the physical improvements in what I eat. Usually it’s Ayurveda or Geneen Roth. This Cleanse, it’s Marianne Williamson’s A Course in Weight Loss.
Let Kale Salads Rock Your World
You know I’m the Queen of Greens. I eat greens every day: chard, kale, spinach, arugula, mache, chard, collards. Gram per gram, kale provides more iron than red meat, and we don’t eat red meat while on the Gottfried Cleanse. Kale is nutrient dense in other aspects as well: one cup provides 1327% of…
Glee Over Ghee
Today, I got a great question from a cleanser about why ghee is acceptable on the Gottfried Cleanse, but not butter. Here’s my answer. Short version: butter contains the common allergens of dairy, casein and lactose, whereas ghee has them removed or cooked off. Say more…. Ghee, also known as clarified butter, is made…
Is Gluten the New Evil?
This week, I taught a webinar on “How Cleansing Alters Hormones and Brain.” Scroll down to watch a clip. While synthesizing the data, I read even more alarming statistics about gluten that I feel compelled to share. According to gluten guru Peter Green, MD, a gastroenterologist at Columbia University, 1% of the US population…
Dump the Junk: Reasons to Dump Caffeine
I recommend to all my patients that they limit caffeine intake and completely detox for at least 14 days twice per year. And I getta lotta push back. Why? Probably because mostly of my patients have some degree of adrenal dysregulation, and caffeine gets them going in the morning, and keeps them going during…
Is That Acrylamide in Your Coffee?
Now that I’ve talked you off coffee, let’s dive deeper into some of the badness of the stuff. Do you recall the debate that surfaced in 2002 about a potential carcinogen found in fried foods, called acrylamide? There was much sound and fury when the discovery landed on front pages nine years ago, and…
Plum Awesome: Clean Food in the Bay Area
Most of you know I’m in the midst of a cleanse with an online, webinar group. I believe we must change radically how we eat, and to dump the toxins that slow our metabolism, harm our bodies and hurt the planet. I’m always interested in where to dine that supports these tenets.
Coffee Hijacks Thyroid Levels
Do you take thyroid medication? Judging from my integrative medicine practice, I believe we have an epidemic of underfunctioning thyroid on our hands. Most national organizations of endocrinologists have issued guidelines that if you have symptoms of low thyroid function, a TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone) < 2.5 makes the diagnosis, yet most conventional physicians use…