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03/22/2026

⚖ BALANCE is a nice word, but what does it really mean? Depends who you ask. Balance is a subjective term wide open to interpretation. It's often used as a justification for unhealthy things. Humans are a masters of self-deception who are capable of justufying just about anything but together we are better! For this very reason, whatever an individual's perspective on balance might be, I encourage my patients to seek out and consider a more objective perspective from others, and then re-evaluate their own viewpoint
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If we let the food industry define it, it means the 4 food groups, half of which come from the food industry, the Meat Board & the Dairy Council. Balance is one of my 3 guiding principles in nutrition, but throughout 40 years in clinical nutrition practice I've learned that it's only properly defined by a wide variety of COLOR, which basically translates to the eating of massive produce. But it's no longer just about eating a lot of fruits & vegetables, it's about eating a greater DIVERSITY of a lot of fruits and vegetables.This is where both the micro- & phyto-nutrient density reside
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BIO INDIVIDUALITY is one of my other 3 guiding principles.When it comes to micronutrients, especially mineral nutrition, this is the only way to achieve balance. Our nutrient needs are as different as our fingerprint. One size doesn't fit all

Here again, if we listen to the supplement industry, mineral balance equals two parts calcium one part magnesium. While this ratio may fit for some Individuals it is completely backward for most. If we are not testing we are guessing. We need a new approach, an understanding that nutrition can and must be PERSONALIZED

Related posts on my functional medicine nutrition page In the ongoing MINERAL NUTRITION series and HOW TO ESTABLISH YOUR PERSONAL NUTRITION BASELINE

If you'd like more individualized care to achieve your personal balancing act, DM me or link in Profile to the CONTACT page on my website to request brochure and session schedule

03/21/2026

⚡️ Perhaps the most meaningful stress coping strategy is how we THINK about it ~ our STRESS PERCEPTION
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Stress = CHANGE, no more no less. It is neutral, neither bad nor good. The difference between healthful and distressing health damaging change is how we ADAPT to it. For example the birth of a child racks up as many physiologic stress points as does the death of a loved one.
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Try swapping the word CHANGE for STRESS and see how it feels. Rather than saying I have a lot of stress ➡ I'm going through a lot of change. Question is, how well am I adapting to it? Am I resisting it, thinking that this shouldn't be happening to me, or I don't deserve this, or am I going with the flow?
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If you'd like to re-view & renew your stress perception and gain a healthier, more functionally adaptive stress response ➕ reduce inflammation & build your immune resilience see related post RE-EXAMINE YOUR STRESS on my functional medicine nutrition page.💚

03/20/2026

🔸️ My favorite answer to any food, nutrition, diet or supp question is
IT DEPENDS

• Nutrition is nuanced
• One size diet or supp doesn't fit all
• Our nutrient needs are as different as our fingerprint
• One person's health food can be another's junk food
• Personalization is key
• Bio-individuality has always ruled

🔸Another way to say BIO-INDIVIDUALITY is It's all about YOU! 70 years ago Dr Roger Williams coined the term BIOCHEMICAL INDIVIDUALITY. Our nutrient needs are as different as our fingerprint

🔸 While we all have a liver, stomach & brain, and we all need foundational macro & micro nutrients, individual variances in anatomic & metabolic make-up call for different diets & forms of nutrients, quantites, delivery methods, timing, consideration of lifestyle context and treatment. One size doesn't fit all

🔸️ Bio-individuality teaches us that 2 individuals with the same condition can have 2 different root causes that require 2 different treatment approaches. What's right and works for your friend isn't necessarily right for you -- even if it appears to "work"

🔸 I practice functional medicine naturopathic nutrition because it helps to set aside the subjective, the self (including myself), and the opinionated. Not that those aren't important, but I staunchly encourage my patients to have several different indicators & opinions pointing in the same food or nutrient direction before latching on and saying this is right for me on every level of my being

🔸️ We need a new approach, an understanding that nutrition can and must be PERSONALIZED!

🔹️ Here's how one patient put it
(80% of my patients are women, this is one of the relatively few men's experience)

🔹️ I want to thank you for being so helpful to me in my journey to better health. It's clear that you truly care for your patients and treat each one as an individual. You have reshaped my vision of what healthy eating looks and feels like

For years, I thought I was living my healthiest self. I exercised regularly and was eating what I thought were well balanced meals. When my health took a turn for the worst, I was incredulous. I wondered how someone like me could get this sick👇

03/19/2026

💊 Even when a mineral supplement has a beneficial effect on one hand, it can simultaneously cause undetected nutrient interference or serious metabolic imbalance on the other

This is why I personalize my supplement recommendations, and encourage my patients to have multiple indicators pointing in the same nutrient direction before latching on and saying this is right for me on every level of my being

For the 40 years I've been doing this, I've been cautious of ALL supplements, which is why if you read my articles you'll see warnings such as

⚠️ Berberine is not an herb, it's an isolated extract that can have the same side effects as the drugs it replaces
⚠️ Before you join the magnesium of the month club push pause
⚠️ The health hazards of excess iron
⚠️ The real difference between ascorbic acid and vitamin C
⚠️ No amount of curcumin, collagen, or any other currently popular supplement, will overcome a toxic barrier -- detox first, then nourish
⚠️ Mineral balancing acts: copper is to zinc what magnesium is to calcium. No single mineral ever functions alone. When we take one we mess with another
⚠️ Think before you zinc
⚠️ Why folic acid is toxic
⚠️ A mismatched probiotic can do more harm than good -- as can any and ALL supplements
➕️ You'll find the full post for each of these on my Profile page

🙈 Blind supplementation eventually does more harm than good. We need to be asking am I treating root cause or just engaging in green pharmacy? Do you supplement due to need or marketing? Real doctors help you get OFF medication and supplements. Personalization is key

The scientists & Dr Google will never figure it out for everyone because each person's nutrient needs are as different as their fingerprint. If my patient wasn't a participant in the research study it doesn't apply to her personally. Don't follow the science, follow your metabolic fingerprint -- your personal nutrition profile. We need a new approach, an understanding that nutrition can and must be PERSONALIZED

To establish your personal baseline, and finish your healing journey with safer, more sensible supplementation, link in Profile to the CONTACT page on my website to request brochure

03/18/2026

MINERALS ARE NATURAL BORN NETWORKERS ~ No single mineral functions alone. When you take one, you mess with others. EVEN IF you take one of the indicated minerals targeted for a specific body system or symptom, and EVEN IF you get improvement, the inevitable interaction impact can leave you with a net imbalance & adverse consequences without knowing or feeling it

Have you joined the mineral of the month club?

Even if you experience symptom improvement on the one hand it can simultaneously be causing undetected nutrient interference and metabolic imbalance on the other

It's never just one thing. Magnesium is to calcium what zinc is to copper. Anytime we take one nutrient, we mess with another

High dose minerals have been found to be poorly utilized in humans. This is true not only for intestinal absorption and liver/kidney metabolism, but especially intracellular utilization

Our metabolic machinery is designed to assimilate trace amounts of ionic minerals from water and plants, not lab manufactured replica compounds

Rather than ask which of the 7 forms to take, ask do I REALLY need it and if so WHY. Then ask how best can I get...
More magnesium continued in comments

🔑 QUESTION ~ HOW do you REALLY know what YOUR ACTUAL mineral needs are? All too often, due to malabsorption and/or mis-metabolism, I find patients deficient in the very nutrients they are consuming plenty of - EVEN IF they appear to be benefiting from them! If you are not testing you are blindly guessing

💇 Hair Mineral Testing analyzes for 30 minerals, both nutritional & toxic. It is one of the most functionally meaningful & economical nutrition tests availableo to establish your personal baseline

I use the most reputable lab in the world, and with the current promo discount through March 31, you can order your test kit by linking in Profile to the CONTACT page on my website

03/17/2026

💇‍♀️ HAIR MINERAL ANALYSIS is one of the most functionally meaningful & economical nutrition tests available. In addition to testing for 22 nutritional minerals, it also screens for 8 toxic heavy metals

More importantly, beyond measuring tissue mineral levels, it reveals mineral absorption, distribution and metabolism. In other words, it tells us whether your minerals are reaching their target tissues rather than just circulating in the blood

As with all lab testing, when it comes to hair analysis, interpretation is everything. Proper functional interpretation from an experienced practitioner is the only way to derive everything possible from the test results. A test is just a test

Test results provide clues, not answers. Strategically placing these clues within the context of each individual is what yields real health improvement results, which is why I treat the whole person, not just a test result number. If you have plenty of test results, but little to no health improvement results, it's time we talk

I use the most reputable lab in the world, and with the current promo discount through March 31, you can order your test kit by linking in Profile to the CONTACT page on my website

If you've already been hair mineral tested, when was the last time you retested? Retesting is the ONLY way to determine what has changed. Mineral metabolism is dynamic, always moving. That was then, this is now. Order your re-test kit today

See also the SUMMARY post explaining all 12 reasons to do a hair test currently pinned at the top of my Profile page

03/16/2026

💚 THE FOLLOWING LIST is ordered roughly from highest to lowest Chlorophyll content, based on studies of green pigments (chlorophyll a+b). Grouped by 3 leaves, 2 leaves & 1 leaf

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Top Chlorophyll-Rich Edible Greens Highest Concentration (mg / 100g)
• Matcha Green Tea ~565
• Spinach ~515
• Parsley ~300
• Arugula/Rocket ~259
• Garden Cress ~220
• Kale ~150
• Beet Greens
• Swiss Chard
• Collard Greens - Chlorophyll + K
• Mustard Greens - C + phytochemicals
• Watercress
• Radish Greens
• Carrot Greens
• Sprouts

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Other Notable Domesticated Edible Greens
• Bok Choy / Pak Choi (especially the dark leaves)
• Turnip Greens
• Romaine Lettuce (darker leaves = higher chlorophyll)
• Broccoli Rabe / Rapini
• Endive/Escarole
• Cabbage (Green)
• Moringa Leaves
• Amaranth Leaves
• Sissoo Spinach (Alternanthera sissoo)
• Katuk (Sauropus androgynus)
• Grasses - barley, wheat, oat, rye, alfalfa
• Algae - spirulina, chlorella, blue-green

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Wild Edible Green Leafy Plants
• Dandelion Greens - Best picked young and tender
• Nettle (Urtica dioica) - Very high in chlorophyll, especially before flowering. More than Matcha & Spinach
• Lamb’s Quarters - Similar to spinach
• Purslane - Rich in omega-3s and chlorophyll
• Chickweed - High in nutrients, often raw in salads
• Plantain (Plantago major/lanceolata)
• Wild Sorrel
• Fat Hen (related to Lamb’s Quarters)
• Magenta Spreen
• Purple Dead Nettle

Which one would you like to try?

Since it's best to rotate a wide variety of greens, why not pick one from each group?

What other edible greens can you think of?

Selection & prep tips to maximize Chlorophyll content in comments

Yesterday's green post ALL THINGS CHLOROPHYLL explains how
🩸 It is plant blood nearly identical to human hemoglobin
🤢 It uniquely nourishes AND detoxifies simultaneously
🌞 It is photoenergetically, biochemically & nutritionally connected to sunlight.
Read all about it on my Profile page
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03/15/2026

🍃 Did you know that CHLOROPHYLL IS PLANT BLOOD which oxygenates tissues identical to human hemoglobin?
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The BLOOD CONNECTION

Chlorophyll is used not only as a blood purifier, but also a blood extender in bloodless medicine

BY DESIGN

Chlorophyll is molecularly identical to hemoglobin, a beautiful hexagonal diamond shaped molecule with only one central element/mineral difference? instead of iron in hemoglobin it contains ________
GUESS WHICH ONE or see the super greens posts on my veggie loaded functional nutrition page in all their green glory 💚

CAN YOU DETOXIFY AND NOURISH AT THE SAME TIME?

When we eat to nourish, the body inevitably produces some metabolic waste byproducts. Similarly, when we detoxify, we inevitably strip away some nutrients along with the toxins

Chlorophyll is one of the few substances that can simultaneously nourish AND detoxify. Yes, it has the unique ability to both nourish & detoxify in unison

Can YOU detox and nourish at the same time? Not without greenery

🌞 🍃 The SUNLIGHT CONNECTION

Chlorophyll is the green pigment in plants that acts as a photoreceptor, absorbing sunligt to power photosynthesis

It converts this light energy into chemical energy (ATP/NADPH) by energizing electrons, initiating the synthesis of carbohydrates from water and carbon dioxide, which fuels plant growth.
Isn't that far out!?

Would you say that green is good?

Do you think that green is God's favorite color?
(Hint: Before answering, see the scripture in comments)

Is it yours?

03/13/2026

🛌 How much sleep do you REALLY need for OPTIMAL health?

MINIMUM
7 is the new 8
8 is still common for some

MAXIMUM
No more than 9
For most people, sleeping more than 9 hours nightly is an indication that something is off metabolically, especially with the body's drainage & detoxification pathways

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CONSEQUENCES of LESS THAN 7
Sleeping less than 7 hours nightly leads to serious, long-term health consequences, including increased risks for obesity, diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, stroke, depression, lowered immune function and compromised detoxification, especiallyof the brains glymphatic system. Short-term effects include impaired memory, reduced cognitive performance, severe mood swings, and accidents due to microsleep

How is your sleep quantity and quality
(both before & after Daylight Savings)?
Let's hear It in a comment...

STILL STRUGGLING with the TIME CHANGE?
Consider this safe, gentle & effective homeopathic pineal remedy to reset your circadian rhythm...
Continued in comments

If you have difficulty getting to sleep or waking in the middle of the night.l, see below

For my patients who have difficulty getting to sleep due to worry or mental activity, the best advice I can give them is...in comments

If you wake up 3~ 5 hours into your sleep cycle it usually indicates an imbalance of the pineal gland, which at this time should be...
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03/12/2026

👗 💊 Quality is only one of the two most important factors for SENSIBLE SUPPLEMENTATION. Proper fit, or matching nutrients to individual need, is equally important if not more important

If you wouldn't add oil to your car's engine, even the best high-grade motor oil, why take the best supplement without knowing your Baseline level?

🙈 Blind supplementation can do more harm than good.

Ultimately, testing PEOPLE is more important than testing PODUCTS. If you are not testing, you are guessing

A mismatched supplement, even of the best quality, can do more far more harm than good. Excess iron is a prime example of this

As a functional medicine naturopathic nutritionist who specializes in nutrition assessment testing, If you'd like to better & safer tailored nutrition from less pills & cost, link in Profile to the CONTACT page on my website to request brochure

03/11/2026

🎶 BEANS BEANS The Longevity Fruit, the more you eat... the longer you live.

Be a good, long-lived human BEAN

🫘 BEANS can add MANY YEARS to your life

Researchers have found an 8% reduction of premature death for every 2 tablespoons of legume intake!

Do the math!

Beans are the number 2 underutilized SuperFood and a common denominator in all blue zones around the world

🍲 See my recent post about Minestrone soup in Sardinia, including recipes

In fact the intake of legumes may be the single most important dietary predictor of a long life span. Everything you've always wanted to know about beans but have been too gassy to ask, including enhancing digestibility and debunking the lectin myth... on my bean-rich, veggie-loaded, fruit-filled functional nutrition page

Please feel comfortable to ask questions in comments

Eat more beans, live long & prosper! 🖖

03/10/2026

🎵 YOU GOTTA GO -- every single day -- if you wanna know better health

Poor & infrequent elimination ➡ chronic inflammation. Do you really want the toxic waste in your p**p hanging around in your bowel for more than 24 hours? inflammation

Whatever doesn't get eliminated in a timely manner is toxic waste that that does not just remain in the bowel. It's reabsorbed from the intestinal wall into the bloodstream, wreaking inflammatory havoc along the way - from brain to toe joint

P**p. Every. Single. Day.❗

No matter what my patients see me for, If they aren't having at least one easy, complete every day BM, this gets moved to the top of our goals list. Every other health concern then falls into place. Hippocrates was right, ALL disease begins in the gut

See the ESSENTIAL GUT HEALTH series on my functional medicine nutrition page for more about optimal stool transit time & gut health

Need personalized gut care? Link in Profile to the CONTACT page on my website to request brochure & session schedule for functional naturopathic nutrition telehealth. If you don't see it in a day or two and be sure to check your spam folder

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