Women’s Health
Sugar and Brain Health: How to Keep Your Marbles As You Age
We all know that sugar is not good for the waistline. But do you know the effect sugar has on your brain health? Sugar is perhaps the best-known offender when it comes to your ability to think, learn, and remember—and develop stroke and dementia, including Alzheimer’s. Eating more sugar doubles your risk of cognitive impairment.1 Too…
Read MoreSleep better, feel better and lose weight. What’s the secret?
Getting more sleep, feeling better and losing weight. These are things millions of people want. How do you get them? What’s the secret? In Brain Body Diet, I have devised a 40-Day protocol to help women become a lean, calm, energized, happy version of themselves. Here’s the super short version of how to achieve that…
Read MoreWhy You Should Care About Your Sugar Levels as Much as Your Retirement Account
Aging Better with the Brain Body Diet This week, I had the pleasure to sit down with Lorie Johnson from CBN to discuss my new book, Brain Body Diet. (Modified Transcript) It’s not supposed to be this way. Anxious thoughts and depressed feelings rob us of our best lives. Addictions take over our minds. Muddled…
Read MoreNourishing the Brain Body on the Today Show with Maria Shriver
I had the great honor and privilege to launch my new book, Brain Body Diet, on the Today Show with Maria Shriver.
Read MoreThe Real Reason Why Women Feel Foggier, Hungrier, Plumper, More Forgetful, More Anxious, and Unhappier Than Ever Before
If you’re like 95% of the women I work with, you’ve tried to lose weight before or you’ve spent countless dollars on things that promise to improve memory, clear your brain fog or reduce anxiety…often times without lasting results or tangible improvements. Or maybe you feel guilty because you KNOW you should feel happier than…
Read MoreBuild Resilience and Hormone Balance
Do you want to learn more about hormone balance, the female brain, perimenopause, what supplements we should all be taking, and how to transform health care? At the beginning of this week, I had the honor to be invited by Maria Shriver to chat with her on Architects of Change Live about just that. We…
Read MoreHow Oxalates Affect Your Gut, Urinary Tract, and Risk of Autoimmune Conditions
In personalized lifestyle medicine, sometimes one person’s superfood is another person’s poison. Such is the case with oxalates, which are found in high concentrations in many presumed health foods. Once I started testing, I realized that many of my patients were experiencing the downstream consequences of excess oxalate intake, usually in the form of green…
Read MoreWomen and Addictive Tendencies: Food and Alcohol
We live in a culture of partial truths when it comes to food and alcohol. We tend to exaggerate our assets and minimize our liabilities. I used to do it too. I would go out on a Friday night and feel like a rock star after a few drinks, and not be honest about the…
Read MoreTwo Questions to Ask Your Doctor Before You Agree to a Medication
Twelve years ago when I still worked in the trenches of conventional medicine (before I spun off to start my own integrative and functional medicine practice), I figured there had to be a better way to fill the gaps that patients encounter between what they struggle with and what mainstream medicine offers. Not everyone can…
Read MoreAlzheimer’s Disease: The Sex-Related and Gender-Related Differences
We used to think that developing Alzheimer’s disease was inevitable, but that is no longer the case. Personalized lifestyle medicine has been shown in a case series led by UCLA professor Dale Bredesen, M.D. to reverse Alzheimer’s disease. But there is one important fact that is often overlooked: the disease shows up, progresses, and is…
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