My family and I have just returned from a restorative trip to our favorite beach spot. As most parents know, traveling with young children is typically not much of a “vacation”, but I find beach trips to be the exception. Even if the days are filled with random routines, less-than-optimal nutrition, and sleepless nights, just a […]
Dr. Alex’s Top 5 Reasons (out of 6000+) to LOVE Turmeric
One of the big reasons I chose to practice integrative medicine, as opposed to a strictly allopathic approach, is my absolute love, fascination, and reverence for medicinal plants. The rich history of medicinal herbs in America, from Echinacea to Goldenseal, could likely fill 100 libraries, but today we’re going to focus on an ancient root […]
Top 7 Emotional Detox Tools for Women
Spring is just around the corner, and with it comes a natural time of cleansing, renewal, and new possibilities. In the natural health world this is THE time of year for detox cleanse mania through fasting, juicing, elimination diets, etc. But I would suggest to you today, the most important thing you can do to […]
Lessons From My 103 Year Old Grandmother
A couple of nights ago I had the most beautiful and soul-stirring dream. It was as a regular day and I was with my kids and husband. We were playing outside, laughing and running around. I turned around and out of nowhere a door appeared. It was suspended in thin air and as the door […]
Wonder-fuelled Watercress Almond Soup
I hope that the first week of 2016 has been filled with promise and inspiration! My family and I enjoyed a peaceful start to the New Year – we tucked in long before midnight and slept soundly as the ball dropped! Whether you stayed up all night and rang in 2016 with sparklers and champagne […]
3 ways to detox right now
In my family we celebrate Christmas both on Christmas Eve and on Christmas Day – and let me tell you- we take our food very seriously. We had a wonderful Nochebuena celebration on Christmas Eve last week where we enjoyed a traditional Cuban Christmas meal – roasted pork, yuca, sweet plantains, rice and black beans. […]
