A Healthy Balance Nutrition

09/08/2024

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03/28/2024

Are you always feeling bloated after meals? Does it get worse throughout the day? This is common, but not normal. Your digestion is telling you something is off. Read on to learn how to troubleshoot and figure out if you need to explore deeper with a practitioner (like me!).

Simply put, bloating is just excess intestinal gas. The feeling can range from uncomfortable to pretty painful. It usually resolves on its own after a period of time after eating, but if you’ve got something going on with your digestion, it is probably coming back pretty regularly. Most of the tim...

03/23/2024

So what should you eat after a workout?? Following a high-intensity workout, strength training, or an endurance-based workout, it is important to eat adequate amounts of carbohydrates and protein. Consuming protein will help to repair and rebuild muscle while eating carbohydrates will help to recover your lost glycogen stores. While fat is an important macronutrient not to be missed in the diet, it can slow down digestion and inhibit the benefits of consuming carbohydrates and protein following a workout so it is best to limit directly following an intense workout. Most experts agree that for an hour of training a good baseline is to eat 0.14–0.23 grams of protein per pound of body weight and 0.5–0.7 grams of carbs per pound of body weight within thirty minutes to an hour of training.

Depending on the type of workout you are doing and how long you work out you can really optimize your recovery and replenish your body with the right nutrition. 

03/06/2024

Cleansing and detox are always super trendy in the wellness world, but many go about it the wrong way and end up feeling worse than before or their detox is unsuccessful. Some say that our bodies naturally detox on their own, but given all the toxins we are exposed to daily, most of us do need some support in this department these days, especially if we tend to be on the sensitive side or have a fair amount of healing to do (from things like chronic infections and parasites, mold, metals, and environmental toxins.

When working to eliminate things that have taken up a home in the body, we must support the body's pathways for toxin elimination BEFORE we can effectively and safely remove toxins from the body. I think that this process is what people are referring to when they talk about detox.

The order in which the body naturally moves fluids to remove toxins from the body is known as the drainage funnel and by ensuring these drainage pathways are all open and functioning properly, your body’s detoxification processes may function just fine. Unfortunately, for most people, all the pieces of the drainage funnel aren’t always working as they should. This is why I always discuss these pathways with clients before we do any deeper work and we often focus on drainage before we do any sort of detox whether we are working on gut dysbiosis, infections, and/or toxins.

g and detox are always super trendy in the wellness world, but many go about it the wrong way and end up feeling worse than before or their detox is unsuccessful. Some say that our bodies naturally detox on their own, but given all the toxins we are exposed to daily, most of us do need some support

03/06/2024

03/01/2024

Let me know if you’d like to receive my free protein guide.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/02/18/1231552773/protein-diet-muscle-strength-training-muscle-loss-women #:~:text=Muscle%20mass%20peaks%20in%20our,key%20culprit%20of%20physical%20decline.

We start to lose muscle in our 30s, and the loss accelerates with age, putting us at risk of frailty later in life. But what you eat — specifically how much protein — is a big part of the solution.

02/29/2024

02/26/2024

The HTMA is a valuable tool for assessing mineral status, nutritional imbalances, heavy metal toxicity, and metabolic dysfunctions. By analyzing hair tissue samples, HTMA provides comprehensive insights into various aspects of health and can guide personalized protocols to optimize your well-being and address underlying imbalances and deficiencies.

I offer HTMA as part of my a la carte functional testing menu and it is also a part of my AHB Groundwork Package. It is a foundational functional test in my practice. Ready to see if this test is appropriate for you or want to learn more? Schedule a free 30-minute consult and let’s chat.

https://www.ahealthybalance.net/blog/2023/12/13/what-you-can-learn-from-an-htma

The HTMA is a valuable tool for assessing mineral status, nutritional imbalances, heavy metal toxicity, and metabolic dysfunctions. By analyzing hair tissue samples, HTMA provides comprehensive insights into various aspects of health and can guide personalized protocols to optimize your well-being a

01/24/2024

01/21/2024

You know the old saying, the eyes are the windows to the soul. Maybe that’s true. But what researchers know for sure is that the skin is the window to what’s going on inside the body. What’s going on inside the gut, especially with the trillions of the bacteria that live there, often directly ...