Health misinformation rarely looks ridiculous when you first see it. It usually looks convincing. A headline says researchers have made a shocking discovery, a social media post quotes a doctor, or someone shares a study that supposedly proves what we’ve all been told about a food, medication, herb, supplement, or disease is wrong. Some…
Imagine eating a hamburger for dinner and going about your evening feeling completely normal. Several hours later, you wake covered in hives, your stomach is cramping, or you suddenly feel faint. You have eaten beef your entire life without a problem, so dinner may be the last thing you suspect. The explanation could trace…
Healing during sleep is one of the most remarkable processes your body performs. You spend about one-third of your life asleep, yet many people think of those hours as time when nothing important is happening. We often hear phrases like, “I’ll sleep when I’m dead,” or “I don’t have time to sleep.” Unfortunately, our…
Most people think bile only helps digest fat. Scientists now know it is doing far more than that. For roughly five years, as best I can remember, I thought I had terrible gas. Every so often an attack would come out of nowhere. The pain would build until it felt almost unbearable, then eventually…
One of the body’s most extensive tissues has been hiding in plain sight. It surrounds your muscles, supports your organs, carries sensory nerves, and may help explain why pain does not always stay where it begins. For generations, fascia was often treated as little more than the pale material surgeons moved aside to reach…
Symptoms aren’t always the problem. Sometimes they’re the body’s way of telling you where to start looking. A headache that appears every afternoon. Heartburn that seems to arrive no matter how carefully you eat. An aching shoulder that refuses to settle down. Brain fog that rolls in without warning. Fatigue that another cup of…
A body under constant alert has one job, and repair isn’t it. Healing doesn’t stop because your body has forgotten what to do. More often, it pauses because something else has moved to the front of the line. The human body is built to repair. Skin closes over a cut, bones knit after a…
This Fourth of July, America turns 250. That’s not a small number to sit with. A country doesn’t survive two and a half centuries because nothing ever goes wrong. It survives because it has systems that can respond to stress, recover from damage, adapt to change, and keep functioning even when life gets complicated.…
A few years ago, if someone had told me that foods like spinach, avocado, sauerkraut, bone broth, and tomatoes might make some people feel worse, I probably would have raised an eyebrow. After all, these are foods that show up on countless healthy eating lists. Yet the more I studied nutrition, herbalism, digestive health,…
Over the past several years, few topics in the health and wellness world have generated as much discussion as leaky gut. Depending on where you look, it is either blamed for nearly every health condition imaginable or dismissed entirely as a made-up concept. As often happens, the truth lies somewhere in the middle. While…