This blog illuminates the path to wellness via demystifying the latest nutritional breakthroughs, homemade skincare and tincture design, and simple and delicious recipes. Eat to thrive!
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- Easy, breezy cleansing: A basic 10-day detox
Cleanse, detox, whatever you may call it, once the days begin to get longer our winter-stagnant bodies seem to request a bit of assistance moving out the old to make way for the new. If you are in good health generally, but feel a little bogged down, fogged out, and low-energy, a quick & simple [...]Read more
- 5-DAY MINI-DETOX Here I Come!
I’m taking the opportunity, while vacationing in sunny Florida, to complete a MINI-DETOX to clear out some of the debris my system has accumulated over the holiday season. Nothin’ fancy – just the bare bones: Clean eating + yoga + minimal supplement support = new, energized, glowing ME! Want to follow along? “Like” my Authentic [...]Read more
- Radiation protection: Eat it, drink it, bathe in it
Much has been written lately about the impact of the radiation leaking from the Fukushima site in Japan. A series of spin and counter-spins, varied views, hyperbole, heavy-handed optimism, fear and anger, disbelief. Anyone who believes the radiation from Fukushima won’t reach us, or our children, that we are too far away, that things can’t [...]Read more
Popular Posts
- Antioxidants and free radicals: Why you want one and what you can do about the other
Antioxidants. The term is always there—on packaging, in conversation, in articles—you know you want them but do you know why? I wasn’t quite sure myself until I actually attended a class on the free radical-antioxidant relationship: antioxidants are compounds that protect the body from damage, particularly free-radical damage. But there’s another term…free radical. Images of [...]Read more
- Antioxidant Warrior Dinner Recipe
Antioxidant Warrior Dinner Give your body the raw materials it needs to protect you while you sleep. This recipe is full of copper, zinc, and manganese … you’ll use these nutrients to create the mighty Superoxide Dismutase antioxidant! You will need: 1 sweet potato 1 cup brown or wild rice 2-3 cremini mushrooms 2 [...]Read more
- Comedogenic and Non-comedogenic Oils
Oil-free: The myth Although many oils have anti-inflammatory, nourishing, moisturizing, and wrinkle-reducing properties, the use of oils in skin care often gets a bad rap, especially in those products for acne-prone, oily, or combination skin. However, many oils are fantastic to use topically, even on acne-prone skin, and the right types of oils can even [...]Read more
