Yoga for Tension Release
Despite the wide availability of ergonomic office chairs, car seats with massaging lumbar support, and chiropractic offices on almost every corner, neck, shoulder and upper body tension still remains one of the primary physical ailments for many people. We tend to hold tension in areas of our bodies without even realizing it. For example, right […]
Is Going Gluten-Free Enough…or Should We Avoid All Carbs?
New York Times #1 best-selling author and board-certified neurologist David Perlmutter lays out groundbreaking evidence about how our dietary choices – and dependency on carbohydrates – are leading to an epidemic of brain disease. The gluten-free diet – and who should follow it – is a hot topic of debate these days. While some people continue to adopt a gluten-free diet […]
Water is Life
We all know we are supposed to drink water. And yes, water is gluten-free, so why write about it? Because there is more to good health than sticking to a gluten-free diet. And there is more to
The Myers Way Diet: One Editor’s Experience in Trying It Out
Christine Boyd, after interviewing physician and author Amy Myers, M.D., reports on her own four-week trial run on “The Myers Way Diet.” Recently I had the privilege of interviewing functional medicine physician and author of The Autoimmune Solution, Amy Myers, M.D. In her book, Myers details a four-pronged plan—rooted in the tenets of functional medicine—to […]
Gluten-Free & Gassy
The top 7 reasons you’re still feeling sick. Over the almost two decades I’ve been in clinical practice, my patient population has been changing. Ten years ago, I was diagnosing people with celiac disease and gluten intolerance and introducing them to the gluten-free diet. With the explosion of publicity about celiac disease and the gluten-free […]
Weight Gain Linked to Celiac Disease?
If you’re underweight from longstanding malabsorption, putting on a few pounds after going gluten-free can be a good thing. For the rest of us, it’s frustrating to see the scale tip as we eliminate gluten from our diets. While it’s true that processed, packaged gluten-free foods are often higher in calories and fat, many of […]