3 Reasons Why You Should Be Drinking Bone Broth…NOW!

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3 Reasons Why You Should Be Drinking Bone Broth…NOW!

The bone broth craze: It’s trending in all the restaurants, hitting grocery store shelves, and abundantly appearing in various news articles. It seems so innovative yet it’s something that has been around for many years, now suddenly resurfacing as the new super food. However, unlike other health food crazes, this one you can trust. In fact, bone broth is here to stay (did it ever really leave?) and should be implemented in everyone’s daily routine starting…now! Here’s 3 reasons why:

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Why You Should Be Eating Cholesterol

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Why You Should Be Eating Cholesterol

Get ready for your mind to be blown.

I am going to tell you that cholesterol is actually GOOD for you, contrary to what you might believe. I know, you still don’t believe me, right? It’s ok, it was hard to me to understand at first, too. However, the more I researched, the more I learned, and the more I began implementing these dietary changes in my life, the better I felt. After all, it wasn’t until I truly started changing my diet that my Lyme disease symptoms started to improve. Although healing is a practice and I still have a ways to go, I am nowhere near as sick as I used to be and I attribute so much of this to the changes I’ve made in my life, specifically dietary changes.

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3 Simple Ways to Start Implementing the GAPS Diet Now: Part 3

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3 Simple Ways to Start Implementing the GAPS Diet Now: Part 3

Welcome back to my series on Ways to Start Implementing the GAPS Diet now. In case you missed it, so far we’ve discussed Bone Broth and Ferments to incorporate into your daily routine to begin repairing the gut and healing the body.  My third recommendation on ways to start implementing the GAPS Diet would be making your own yogurt or kefir.

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3 Simple Ways to Start Implementing The GAPS Diet Now: Part 2

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3 Simple Ways to Start Implementing The GAPS Diet Now: Part 2

For those that may have missed it, we’ve been discussing ways to incorporate parts of the GAPS Diet into your daily routine to begin repairing the gut and healing the body. Recall, last week we discussed my first recommendation, which is Bone Broth. You can check out the recent post here as well as read a little background on the GAPS Diet.

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3 Simple Ways to Start Implementing the GAPS Diet Now: Part 1

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3 Simple Ways to Start Implementing the GAPS Diet Now: Part 1

I hear from a lot of people that they’re interested in implementing a healing diet such as the GAPS Diet but the stages are absolutely daunting and they simply do not have time to worry about the eliminations. Well there’s good news: you can start implementing parts of the diet now! Although you may not receive the full healing benefits of the stages of the GAPS Diet, incorporating these three important components of the diet are a great way to start. Over the next 3 weeks, I will be discussing 3 simple ways to start introducing some of the most healing benefits of the GAPS Diet. 

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Healing is a Practice

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Healing is a Practice

If you’ve ever struggled with anything in life, from illnesses to stress, I’m sure you’ve heard people say, “Just give it time, it’s a process.” While that is true, I have also come to the conclusion it is more fitting for healing to be a practice rather than a process.

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My Battle With Lyme Disease

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My Battle With Lyme Disease

Lyme disease is a complicated illness that varies differently in each individual. Typically, Lyme disease is transferred to humans through tick bites. The most common symptoms of Lyme are flu-like symptoms, fatigue, fever, muscle aches and pains, etc. Since every case is so vastly different from the next, Lyme disease is commonly misdiagnosed and improperly treated, leaving the disease to manifest in the body longer, causing even more damage. You will commonly hear stories of people falling ill 1-2 years prior to actually discovering the real issue of Lyme disease, as was the case for me.

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