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The Best PB&J Hormone Balance Smoothie
Do you love PB&J sandwiches? Does it bring you back to your youth perhaps? Let’s transform that love of PB&J into a smoothie with this creative high protein PB&J Hormone Balance Smoothie! Not only do you get your craving of the creamy peanut butter and sweet berries, but you also get a NUTRIENT DENSE packed meal to fuel your body’s metabolism and balance your hormones.
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Detox Support Pesto
What is Detoxification?
Detoxification is the process by of removing toxic substances or no-longer-needed compounds from our body. As our bodies complete thousands of processes each day, we build up metabolites, hormones, and other compounds that we need to eliminate. This natural detoxification system in our bodies requires a multitude of organs and nutrients working together to maintain optimal health. We need to provide detox support. This is when “food as medicine” really shines.
Our bodies carry out detoxification naturally when functioning optimally. The nutrients we consume make all the difference.
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3 Ways to Make Healthy Chicken Salad (or Tuna or Egg Salad) – 3 Steps, 3 Sauce Options
Healthy Chicken Salad Without Mayo
Chicken salad is a common lunch time food – quick and tasty. But most chicken salads, as well as tuna, salmon, crab & egg salads (also all known as “bound” salads since they are bound together by a thick sauce that hold together when scooped), are made with store-bought mayo that contain unhealthy ingredients and other strange additives. But making a healthy chicken salad on your own means you can make the choice to use healthier ingredients. And as you’ll see, the recipe formula makes for a super simple & quick meal!
Why This Healthy Chicken Salad Recipe Rocks
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Balsamic Blueberry Salmon Sheet Pan Dinner
Nutrition: This meal is loaded with nutrients- salmon & walnuts are high in healthy omega-3 fats, and blueberries and Brussels sprouts are antioxidant superstars.
Omega-3 fats: These are fats that directly help to reduce inflammation in your body. This effect of reduction in inflammation is extremely potent for reducing the risk of so many health conditions and also treating chronic inflammatory conditions. However, most people don’t eat nearly enough, and most are eating inflammatory foods that further throw their bodies into inflammation dominance. Whether it’s sourced wild or farm-raised, salmon is one of the best additions you can make to your diet. Try for 2 servings the size of your palm 2x/week.
Technique: Sheet pan meals are easy- no techniques & quick clean up. And yet this meal is so tasty & pretty. I LOVE adding seemingly unrelated ingredients together to create new dishes, like adding the blueberries to the salmon here.
Diets: **For Low FODMAP Diet, simply omit the Brussels sprouts & garlic and sub another low fodmap veggie, like carrots. The flavors are still great! This is how I usually make this recipe for myself, but the Brussels sprouts version is a crowd-pleaser for all of my “what-the-heck-is a-FODMAP?” friends.
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Is a Leaky Gut Causing my symptoms?
Leaky gut may be causing your digestive issues among other health issues.
If you’ve read any headlines or social media posts about health & wellness in the past few years, you’ve probably come across the hot topic of gut health. And rightly so.
The health of one’s gut, or digestive system, and more specifically the stomach and small and large intestines, is of utmost importance to the health of the entire body. It’s the epicenter of food transformation. Food comes in through the mouth (where part of digestion actually takes place with chewing & action of the saliva) and then gets chemically broken down to eventually be absorbed into the “inside” of the body in the bloodstream, where the nutrients are delivered to all parts of the body.
And get this- the gut is really one large canal that starts in the mouth and esophagus and can technically be considered “outside” of the body. That’s because things that come in through the mouth do not go directly into the bloodstream, which is considered “inside”. Pretty interesting to think about it that way. What is the need for this preliminary period of food breakdown while remaining sort of “outside” the body?