Thermography for Health NY Blog: Nutrition

Thoughts and suggestions on how you can increase your wellness
How Healthy Is Your Gut Microbiome

How Healthy Is Your Gut Microbiome

Have you thought about how important your gut is to your overall health? More and more scientific evidence points to the vital role our gut microbiome plays in almost all aspects of our body’s health. What’s a microbiome? Simply put, it’s the microorganisms in a...

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Inflammation And Your Immune System

Inflammation And Your Immune System

The word inflammation comes from the Latin inflammare, to set on fire. In the context of our immune system, heat, redness, pain and swelling form as a reaction to either injury, or a perceived threat in the body. If you’ve ever hit your thumb...

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Hay Fever And Gut Health

Hay Fever And Gut Health

What does gut health have to do with hay fever or seasonal allergies? Probably a good deal more than you might think. Allergies and hay fever are an inappropriate defensive response to pollen and other substances. According to Dr. Joseph...

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What Is SIBO?

What Is SIBO?

If you are treating your leaky gut by following the 4 Rs and you’re not seeing much progress, it could be that you’re dealing with SIBO – small intestine bacterial overgrowth. SIBO (pronounced SEE-bo) is one of the causes of leaky gut, but the...

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Modern Agriculture And Its Effect On Gut Health

Modern Agriculture And Its Effect On Gut Health

If you’ve done much research on gut health, you already know that antibiotics, even when prescribed and used correctly, can really do a number on your digestive health. While they’re killing off the pathogens they were meant to eliminate,...

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Foods That Can Help Boost Your Immune System

Foods That Can Help Boost Your Immune System

A number of foods have been found to benefit the immune system. One group of foods is thought to reduce inflammation in the body, leading to less wear and tear on all your bodily systems, including your immune system: anti-inflammatory foods....

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Have you checked in today? Food!

We all know the phrase 'you are what you eat' but do you apply this to your life? This week I encourage everyone to be conscious of what they are putting in their mouth. Show your body you care and love it by feeding it fuel to make it function...

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ABCs of Basic Nutrition

Many of us went to school for a good 15 years.  We can do long division, memorized the Periodic Table of Elements and can quote from Shakespeare. Yet with all that schooling, we can’t tell you the first thing about basic nutrition. We hear that...

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Healthy Breast Tip: Vitamin E

If you are a fan of my blog you know that I promote prevention as the key to a Breast Cancer free life. It is very important for all of us to balance a healthy lifestyle with healthy choices because according to the American Cancer Society- a...

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Adding Flaxseeds into your Daily Diet

Now that you know the benefits of adding Flaxseeds into your diet from my post: Healthy Breast Tip: Flaxseeds!, let's learn how to incorporate them into your daily diet. First off- It is very important to eat ground flaxseeds and not whole...

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Healthy Breast Tip: Flaxseeds!

To continue with my Health Breast Tips today I will be teaching you about Flaxseeds. When it comes to your breast health flaxseed is one of the best foods you can eat. According to research, flaxseed has more potent medicinal qualities that any...

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Unlocking the Benefits of Garlic

Now that we've learned the amazing benefits of eating garlic in my post: Healthy Breast Tip: Garlic! & Powerful Components of Garlic, lets focus on HOW you should consume it... Unfortunately many of us eat cooked garlic. Cooking stops the...

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Powerful Components of Garlic

As I mentioned in my post, Healthy Breast Tip: Garlic!, garlic has many wonderful healing properties. Today I'm going to break down the 3 most influential for your health:   Allicin: Allicin is a powerful sulfur plant compound that is...

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Healthy Breast Tip: Garlic!

Garlic ranks as one of the most potent remedies of all time. Did you know what people have been using Garlic to heal for over 5,000 years? Recent studies have shown that garlic may help lower your chances of developing breast cancer and if you...

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How to incorporate Omega-3’s into your diet:

 Now that we've learned the many great cancer fighting properties of Omega-3 Fatty Acids- How can we incorporate them into our daily diets? In my opinion, it is best to get your Omega-3's from the food you eat.  The best food sources are flaxseeds and salmon....

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Omega-3 Fatty Acids Benefits

As we learned from my previous post, Breast Cancer Prevention- Omega-3 Fatty Acids!, adding this fat into your diet greatly reduces your risk of Breast Cancer. Research shows that Omega-3 fatty acids have 4 main benefits with Breast Cancer Prevention: 1) They decrease...

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Breast Cancer Prevention- Omega-3 Fatty Acids!

Prevention is the key to a Breast Cancer free life. It is important to balance a healthy lifestyle with healthy choices.  According to the American Cancer Society, a woman in the United States is diagnosed with breast cancer every three...

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Thanksgiving Everyday

I hope everyone enjoyed Thanksgiving with their family and friends. This year I stayed home and cooked a lovely traditional full Course meal for my family.  Very delicious and great conversations! It is important to be thankful not only on...

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