Our modern lifestyle is disrupting a deeply ingrained, primordial, and universal code to being healthy.   This is how Dr. Satchin Panda, a professor at the Salk Institute in San Diego and a researcher on circadian rhythms, begins his book,  The Circadian Code.  His statement is backed up by a compelling body of research. In 2012, Dr. Panda’s team divided genetically identical mice into two groups, one with unlimited access to a high fat-diet, and another with access to the

Got brain fog?  Mood imbalances?  Adult acne?  Chronic fatigue?  I did.  I also had chronic dizziness, insomnia, hypersensitivity to sounds, and other symptoms often dismissed by doctors. In the eleven years since my own diagnosis of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, I learned how central detoxification is to maintaining good health, as well as to healing.  From nutrition doctors like my colleague and mentor Mark Hyman, MD , prescribing detox diets and patients sharing their miraculou

"One cannot think well, love well, or sleep well if one has not dined well."  -Virginia Woolf Nutrient-dense foods are a cornerstone to restoring imbalances and maintaining vitality. They enhance the texture and flavor of any meal, as well as satisfy our deepest cravings. The following foods were parts of many traditional cultures, and our ancestors ate these with great regularity: naturally-fermented foods: pickles, kraut, kvass, yogurt/kefir homemade bone broth organ meats