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Green and Gorgeous: My Top 5 Beauty + Health Recommendations
I believe that the best way to apply makeup is to make it look like you aren’t wearing any. I agree with One Direction: you’re all lovely and luscious enough already. You’re turning heads when you walk through the door Don’t need make up To cover up Being the way that you are is enough…
Read MoreBook Club: Five Burning Questions with Bestselling Author Dani Shapiro
I fell in love with Dani’s work when I read Devotion, a powerful memoir about being a mom, writer, and spiritual seeker. Dani was kind enough to let me interview her recently with my top 5 burning questions. In my obsessive consumption of every book she has written and every interview she has given, I…
Read More3 New Reasons to Take a Walk in Nature
Last Friday night, someone broke into my car and stole a few things. They left behind my yoga mats and barre sticky socks, so they must not be into yoga or barre class (!). The perpetrators must be in significant pain. I live in an urban setting with a high crime rate. In fact, it’s…
Read MoreDr. Sara’s 2015 Gift Guide
These are few of my favorite things that I’m either giving or have received this holiday season. Wide range of prices for all levels of splurge! Xoxo Vegetable Spiralizer $30. This slices your vegetables in a spiral so that they can act like pasta. My favorites are carrots, zucchinis, cucumbers, cabbages, turnips, rutabagas, and cucumbers. Kitchen Herb…
Read More5 Simple Ways to Detox from the Ills of Air Pollution
Whether it’s to upgrade mood, or lose weight, or have a blissful night’s sleep, most of the people in my tribe are on a personal mission to reclaim health and vitality. This can be achieved by using food as information for your hormones, adopting a whole lot of self love and tweaking your lifestyle in…
Read MoreAna Forrest Wants You to Clear Your Stuck Patterns with Yoga
My first impression when I met Ana Forrest in 2005 at a yoga workshop in St. Helena, CA? FIERCE. I gathered with 75 other yogis, mat-to-mat, in a hot room as Ana coaxed us to clear the junk, the stuck emotional debris, that hardens us and eventually sickens the body. My companion at the workshop…
Read MoreNailed! Nail Polish Brands That Mess with Your Hormones (Plus the Polish I Personally Use)
New study proves that synthetic chemicals in nail polish may leach through your nails and into your bloodstream, leading to a sevenfold increase in toxic metabolites . . . . I’m doing something that feels totally weird. I’m at the nail salon in my Berkeley neighborhood, staring at a wall of pretty nail polish colors.…
Read MoreGMOs: Guilty until Proven Innocent (Plus 5 Ways to Reduce Damage to Your Gut and Brain)
Is it safe to eat genetically modified foods? What about if you eat the meat of an animal raised on genetically-modified food? At this point, the scientific community is still gathering data but my hunch is that GMs are not good for your body, and we need to apply the precautionary principle. Here’s why…. You…
Read More15 Reasons to Rethink Red Meat
Who doesn’t love a grilled steak, washed down with red wine? Um, potentially your microbiome, the aggregate microbes that live in your gut and play a major role in your risk of disease such as obesity, cancer, and diabetes.((Turnbaugh, P., J. et al. “An obesity-associated gut microbiome with increased capacity for energy harvest.” Nature 444, no. 7122…
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