Leaky gut…it’s a popular buzz word right now that almost sounds like a made up ailment from a bad comedy sketch. But all jokes aside, leaky gut syndrome is real, serious, and prevalent (if not epidemic) condition that affects millions of Americans. Leaky Gut Syndrome and its effects have been linked to: Type 1 Diabetes […]
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. […]
7 Ways To Disconnect So You Can Reconnect
Last Wednesday I had an extraordinarily full and over-committed day. I was up early in the morning and out the door by 6:30 AM to make the first of many meetings. After my second meeting of the day, while I was running errands for Thanksgiving, I dropped my phone. And it broke. For real. The […]
Why Functional Medicine is Awesome
I just came back from the 2015 Annual International Conference by the Institute for Functional Medicine. And the focus this year was on the “Omics Revolution” – essentially the nitty-gritty details about the bioindividuality of every single one of us. What was my big takeaway? Aside from complicated biochemical pathways and the genetic polymorphisms that can throw […]
