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Use the above foods to make these various meals and snacks: 3. Other important reminders: Focus on sleep and rest first and foremost. Instead of working out, focus on stretching and gentle movement such as taking a walk or yoga. Relax with an epsom salt bath, a massage, meditation, prayer, breath work, or using aContinue reading “Nourish Yourself During and After Sickness With These Reminders”

A nutrient dense meal is one that is mostly full of beneficial nutrients in proportion to its energy content and/or amount of total food content. Beneficial nutrients are vitamins, minerals, protein, healthy fats, complex carbohydrates. A nutrient dense meal is low in sugars and unhealthy fats. An easy to digest meal typically utilizes a varietyContinue reading “Easy to Digest & Nutrient Dense Meals”

What is Gastroparesis? Gastroparesis is a chronic disorder characterized by delayed stomach emptying, causing a wide range of symptoms. Some of the symptoms include: nausea, vomiting, upper abdominal pain, early fullness, and bloating. Some possible nutrition related effects include: vitamin/mineral deficiencies, dehydration, electrolyte imbalances, and weight loss or weight gain. Maybe you have been givenContinue reading “Gastroparesis or GP-Like Symptoms”

IBS = Irritable Bowel Syndrome IBS affects 5-10% of the U.S. population. A simplified definition is that IBS is a group of symptoms that include abdominal pain and changes in bowel habits (diarrhea or constipation or both) lasting 3 months or more. Symptoms that result in an IBS diagnosis must include: Other common IBS symptomsContinue reading “IBS- Individualized Team and Management Options”

Constipation is uncomfortable. Symptoms such as bloating, cramping, excess gas, nausea, decreased appetite, fullness, heartburn, reflux and others related to the reabsorption of toxins that are trying to be eliminated can often be present with constipation. (Keep reading, there’s good news and a lot of great information and tools in this post!) Constipation is aContinue reading “Nutrition and Lifestyle Tips for Improving Constipation!”

Foundation: an underlying basis or principle (similar to: base, beginning, fundamentals, core, groundwork…) Below are 7 foundations that support gut/digestive and overall health. If you are working on improving your digestive health, address these foundations first. You won’t be able to perfect them all and that is ok, but if one or more are aContinue reading “7 Foundations for Gut and Overall Health”

What? Why? Who? What is intermittent fasting? It is an eating plan where an individual switches between fasting and eating on a regular schedule. It doesn’t include any sort of macronutrient or calorie counting or nutrient/food alterations; just timing and length of eating verses not eating. Intermittent fasting has been around for a long timeContinue reading “Intermittent Fasting”

What are and how to boost short chain fatty acids (SCFAs)? Did you know… Some vitamins are produced in your colon. Tips to keep things moving through your colon… What are and how to boost short chain fatty acids (SCFAs)? Short chain fatty acids are metabolites produced by the bacteria in your colon and actContinue reading “Colon Things…”

Migrating Motor Complex (MMC): What is it: When we are NOT eating (fasting), a cyclic, recurring motility pattern (small waves) occurs in the stomach and small bowel. These small waves propel or “sweep” leftover particles from the stomach to the end of the small intestine. This happens about 2-4 hours after eating. This process isContinue reading “Migrating Motor Complex? Gastrocolic Reflex? Mastication? What Are These and Why Do They Matter?”

Micro Biome Facts That Will Convince You It Is Very Important: 3-7 lbs. of microbes live on our epithelial surfaces We have just as many bacteria as cells in our body Bacterial DNA in our body compared to human DNA in our body is 150/1 Everyone has a unique micro biome just like we eachContinue reading “How to Support Your Amazing Micro Biome!”