Functional nutrition

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3 Simple Strategies to Stay Healthy Throughout the Holidays

The holidays are a wonderful time of year. The holiday season is filled with celebrations, parties, feasts, gift-giving, gift-receiving, and maybe some travel, in-laws, visitors, and more. I love the holiday season and look forward to it every year. I want to share 3 simple strategies with you, so you too can lean into the joy of the holidays and stay healthy throughout the holidays too.

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Prebiotics, Probiotics, and Postbiotics

Microbes live on your skin and inside your body. It’s been estimated that about 90-95% of these microbes live in your gut. The number of microbes increases throughout your GI tract with the majority found in your colon. These microbes also known as the gut microbiota, are incredibly important for health. In this article you’ll learn about prebiotics, probiotics, and postbiotics.

What’s draining your energy

In functional nutrition, we use the 3 tiers framework to help us address the terrain of the body and the nutrition and lifestyle foundations first, before moving on to specifically address the dysfunction. Here’s an illustration to help explain the tiers as a staircase.