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These are just a few of the many wild mushrooms fruiting in the northern hemisphere at this time of year.

The land can provide us with everything we need. Get to know the wild beings on the land where you live. Adopt an eco-centric worldview. Get involved in land defense and regeneration efforts, so that future generations of all beings can live well for eons to come.

From Learn Your Land : Happy Autumnal Equinox! Here's a very brief list of wild edible mushrooms that you may be able to locate this time of year. This list mostly applies to fungi that grow in the temperate regions of eastern North America, and keep in mind that many other mushrooms could’ve made the list (e.g. shaggy mane and the cauliflower mushroom). For more information on each species, consult a field guide or a mycological key.

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Delicious Healthy Blueberry Muffins With Apple Cider Vinegar Recipe

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The mustard plant is king!! 👀

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Food photo dump!

I know we are all wishing for cooler weather, and along with that a fall favorite comes to mind: Keto Pumpkin French Toast Sticks. I can just taste all that cinnamon-y goodness. I just can't wait to eat these again!

https://alldayidreamaboutfood.com/keto-french-toast-sticks/

The 10 Best Natural Antihistamines | Dr. Will Cole

The 10 Best Natural Antihistamines | Dr. Will Cole Discover Dr. Will Cole’s advice for the best natural antihistamines to holistically relieve symptoms.

5 Reasons Why You Should Be Eating More Flaxseeds - Dr. Will Cole

5 Reasons Why You Should Be Eating More Flaxseeds - Dr. Will Cole 5 Reasons Why You Should Be Eating More Flaxseeds - Food How flaxseed affect your thyroid health.

Is CoQ10 Right For You? Here’s How To Know - Dr. Will Cole

Is CoQ10 Right For You? Here’s How To Know - Dr. Will Cole Is CoQ10 Right For You? Here’s How To Know - Vitamins + Herbs Find out how blood sugar affects your health.

Nick Green: Top Tips For Healthy Eating On A Budget + Why Regenerative Farming & Sustainability Are A Must | Dr. Will Cole

Nick Green: Top Tips For Healthy Eating On A Budget + Why Regenerative Farming & Sustainability Are A Must | Dr. Will Cole A unique perspective on why we should all work toward living sustainably; learn just how deep our connection with the planet goes.

Tonight we’re having

Dinner tonight was amazing 🤩 We had a fig and goat cheese chicken, roasted lemon garlic Brussels sprouts, and a sf low carb banana 🍌 pudding! I have always loved banana pudding and this definitely did the trick! Absolutely delicious! 😋🤤 😋

Food pictures dump… been trying some new recipes! So delicious! 😋🤤 We bought a grill recently and just loving it!

This dinner a few nights ago was amazing! 😋

I’ve been slacking with post food and meal so here are a few of the healthy meals my family has been enjoying!

Another family approved healthy meal!

I was craving some chickpea “no tuna” salad and chips and queso so I stopped by on my way home from church!

Quercetin: An In-Depth Guide To This Next-Level Supplement - Dr. Will Cole

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You Might Be Chronically Stressed: Here Are The 9 Signs To Look Out For | Dr. Will Cole

Join my group and see more about stress and your health!

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Why JOMO Is Worth Embracing According To A Functional Medicine Expert | Dr. Will Cole

This is me JOMO.

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I've loved eclair cake for years but it normally uses processed high carb ingredients. I converted our family's favorite recipe to be keto-friendly!

https://joyfilledeats.com/keto-eclair-cake/

Is the beta-amyloid protein to blame for Alzheimer's disease?

A lot of scientific research tends to focus on a singular cause as it relates to various disease states. If you can clearly link a disease to one specific cause, that opens the door for something called, "monotherapy," where you can focus on creating one drug or treatment.

Nowhere is this more obvious than in Alzheimer's.

In this article, we'll discuss two of these treatments and discuss how one protein — beta-amyloid — could actually be BETTER for your brain than we'd first believed.

Read the whole article here. 👉 https://bit.ly/3KIzNky

Image Description: A tweet card from Dr. Perlmutter that reads, "News Flash!

We actually need our tonsils, there are benefits to having your appendix, and beta-amyloid might not be the villain you think it is when it comes to Alzheimer's."

New recipe! Keto "Honey" Buffalo Shrimp.

And they take all of 15 minutes to make! Delicious over a big salad for dinner.

https://alldayidreamaboutfood.com/buffalo-shrimp/

Instead of potatoes use radishes or cauliflower

Drop Acid: Dr. Perlmutter On The Acid Affecting Your Metabolism

Drop Acid: Dr. Perlmutter On The Acid Affecting Your Metabolism In his best-selling new book, Dr. David Perlmutter brings together the compelling science on uric acid. Drop Acid teaches us how to manage it and why it's so key for vibrant health...

Helminthic Therapy: Could This Be The Secret Treatment For Autoimmunity? - Dr. Will Cole

Interesting research, but please do not go eat parasites!

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This is why diet is so important and why I do not do “cheat” days!

Your gut wall houses 70 percent of the cells that make up your immune system. You might not attribute digestive problems with allergies, arthritis, autoimmune diseases (irritable bowel syndrome, acne, chronic fatigue), mood disorders, autism, dementia, and cancer. Many diseases seemingly unrelated are actually caused by gut problems.

If you want to fix your health, start with your gut. Gut health literally affects your entire body.

Even in a perfect world, our gut has a hard time keeping things balanced. But in our world there are many things that knock our digestive system off balance. Those include:

1. A junk diet. This nutrient-poor diet makes all the wrong bacteria and yeast grow in the gut, leading to a damaged ecosystem.

2. Medication overuse. Anti-inflammatories, antibiotics, acid blocking drugs, and steroids damage the gut or block normal digestive function.

3. Infections and gut imbalances. These include small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), yeast overgrowth, and parasites.

4. Toxic overload. Including mercury and mold toxins.

5. Inadequate digestive enzymes. Stress, acid-blocking medications, and zinc deficiencies can all contribute to lack of adequate digestive enzyme function.

6. Stress. Chronic stress alters your gut nervous system, creating a leaky gut and changing the normal bacteria in the gut.

The foundation of good gut health begins with what you eat. Focus on fiber-rich vegetables, low-sugar fruits, non-gluten grain, and legumes.

You might also consider an elimination diet to address food sensitivities. Completely remove gluten, dairy, yeast, corn, soy and eggs for a week or two and see how your gut feels and what happens to your other symptoms.

I often follow a four-step strategy with patients to reduce inflammation and heal the gut. Many find when they employ these steps, they lose weight, feel better, and their symptoms improve:

Remove the bad bugs, drugs, and food allergens.
Replace needed enzymes, fiber, and prebiotic
Reinoculate your gut with good bacteria (probiotics)
Repair the gut lining with omega 3 fatty acids, zinc, glutamine, and other healing nutrients.

Yes some days I eat carrots 🥕 this meal was delicious and the kids fought over the last chicken! 😂

🍳, sausage, and bread 🍞

(15-Minute!) Gluten Free & Keto Tortillas

Tried this recipe tonight!

(15-Minute!) Gluten Free & Keto Tortillas Suuuper pliable, 2g net carbs and not eggy (at all!)!

Yes 🙌🏻 this right here!!! ❤️❤️❤️

by “cute” i mean, look around at the statistics: a shocking 60 percent of American adults have a chronic disease, and 40 percent have two or more chronic diseases.Today someone will have a heart attack every 40 seconds, cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide,50 million Americans have an autoimmune disease,and almost half the population of the United States has either prediabetes or diabetes.
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Brain health problems are also on the rise. Around 20 percent of adults have a diagnosable mental disorder. Depression is now the leading cause of disability around the world. 1 in 5 American children ages three to seventeen (about 15 million kids) have a diagnosable mental, emotional, or behavioral disorder. Serious depression is worsening, especially among teens, with the su***de rate among teen girls reaching a forty-year high. Anxiety impacts more than 40 million Americans, and Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. Since 1979, deaths due to brain disease have increased by 66 percent in men and a whopping 92 percent in women.
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And despite all of this, we are spending the most on healthcare yet are the sickest. By “cute” I mean: are you going to defend doing the same thing repeatedly, expecting a different result? Let’s stop the tired, archaicparadigm of “us vs them”“conventional vs functional medicine” tribalism bu****it. The only ones that get hurt are the people suffering from chronic health problems. Functional medicine is not “either-or” it’s “both-and” . All of my patients still see their conventional doctor. It’s called integrative medicine for a reason. Let’s bring together the best of both worlds and get these statistics turned around. That’s what I’m working on with my patients. Are you? 🤟🏽
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It’s been a rough couple of weeks and I haven’t been posting my food! Here are a few meals and snacks I’ve been enjoying lately.

Ohmygoodness was this good! Brain health is important! Kale chickpea tahini salad 🥗 and spaghetti squash 🍝 with gf breaded chicken breast!

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While many people associate fasting with restricting eating for long periods of time, there are actually many styles with different timing, which can make fasting a much more approachable practice than you might think. In fact, many of you are probably already fasting without even realizing it.

The most basic kind of fast is the break taken between dinner and breakfast. Fasting during this time, which usually falls between 12 and 14 hours, falls into line with our natural circadian rhythms of when the sun is up or down.

The term intermittent fasting can describe multiple timetables for eating. A 5:2 approach means eating only about 25% of caloric needs during two separate days each week; a 16:8 intermittent fast means extending your nightly fast, taking 16 hours between dinner and breakfast, which many people feel good doing several days a week.

Other approaches include a complete 24-hour fast or time-restricted eating where you would only eat within a 6-hour window during the day.

One important caveat of fasting is that when you do eat, you still need to eat well. Fasting and then binging on ice cream and french fries is not going to get you anywhere. The same dietary guidelines I’m always sharing—eat real foods, tons of non-starchy colorful veggies, healthy fats, high-quality protein, etc.—are an amazing compliment to any fasting regime.

It’s also important to note that fasting isn’t for everyone. For example, those with a history of eating disorders or who are pregnant or breastfeeding. Be sure to talk about fasting with your practitioner to decide if it’s right for you.

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There are thousands of phytochemicals that upregulate our antioxidant and longevity genes—so what makes sulforaphane so special? Sulforaphane upregulates glutathione. Often referred to as “the mother of all antioxidants,” glutathione lives up to its title. Glutathione is the most important molecule you need to stay healthy and prevent disease. It helps protect our DNA and cells from free radicals, oxidative stress, infections, and cancer.

Producing and maintaining a high level of glutathione is critical for promoting optimal health and longevity. The good news is we can produce glutathione internally, and sulforaphane is one of the ways we can upregulate its production.

Sulforaphane is neuroprotective. It crosses the blood-brain barrier and upregulates glutathione production, which consequently lowers neuroinflammation. Studies support sulforaphane as an effective treatment for improving clinical outcomes in neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and multiple sclerosis. There are also studies that support increased glutathione levels in the brain from sulforaphane administration helping to rebalance the brain chemistry of mood disorders like schizophrenia.

Glucoraphanin belongs to the family of phytochemicals known as glucosinolates, which are well known for their anti-cancer effects. The sulforaphane that’s derived from glucosinolates activates apoptosis, reduces cancer-cell proliferation, and stimulates detoxification pathways that help eliminate carcinogenic compounds from the body.

To get sulforaphane from food, you’re going to have to eat a lot—and I mean A LOT—of cruciferous vegetables. Broccoli sprouts are the most concentrated source of sulforaphane, just two ounces contains as much glucoraphanin as ¼-lb of broccoli!

Use broccoli sprouts to take your salad’s phytochemical richness to the next level. You can also make a tasty dressing to help tone down the bitterness of the sprouts. This brunch salad with tahini dressing recipe goes great with a couple of pinches of broccoli sprouts on top.

The LUV Diet vs. the Ketogenic Diet—You Can Have It Both Ways

The LUV Diet vs. the Ketogenic Diet—You Can Have It Both Ways How do these two diets relate to each other? They are not mutually exclusive. Both are valuable and provide us with exceptional metabolic advantages.

Brand new recipe! Thick and Chewy Keto Chocolate Chip Cookies

I've been working on perfecting this recipe for a while now and I am finally ready to share. It's simple and chances are that you already have everything in your pantry.

Hope you will give them a try!

Full recipe: https://alldayidreamaboutfood.com/keto-chocolate-chip-cookies/

Just a reminder that our complex brain requires an equally complex and a multifaceted approach for its care. Instead of focusing on potions, concoctions and gadgets, focus on the core elements of life around you to help your brain thrive. Eat well. Move, move, move. Sleep well. Keep good friends and have vociferous and engaging conversations.

What did you do today to push your brain to grow its capacity? 🧠

Keto Lemon Pound Cake

Keto Lemon Pound Cake This zingy keto lemon pound cake has a wonderfully moist buttery crumb.