Are Plants Secretly Working Against You? The Truth About Anti-Nutrients
One camp says eat more plants. The other says plants are quietly working against you. The older, calmer answer is more interesting than either.
Jose Diaz
Are Medical Errors Secretly a Top-Three Killer?
We are taught to think of hospitals and doctors' offices as the safest places to be when something goes wrong with our health. For emergencies and acute injuries, they often are, and we should be grateful for that. But there is a quieter story running underneath modern medicine, one
How to Wean Off Acid Reducers: A Step-by-Step Guide
If you've read my the heartburn myth post that explains that for a lot of people the real problem is too little stomach acid, not too much and you're ready to stop leaning on that little pill. This is the practical how-to. The goal isn&
The Heartburn Myth: Too Much Stomach Acid — or Too Little?
Here's a story I've heard a hundred times. Someone gets heartburn. They go to the doctor. They're told they have too much stomach acid, handed a little purple pill, and sent home. The burning calms down for a while — so the pill must be
Why I Do This
When I first got certified as a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, I wrote a careful little code of ethics. It leaned on the Nutritional Therapy Association's official version, it was respectful of conventional medicine, and it was honest. I meant every word at the time.I'm rewriting
NSAIDs and Pain Relievers: What They Actually Do — And the Dietary Root Cause
When you reach for ibuprofen for a headache or sore joints, you're intervening in one of the body's most important chemical processes. That process exists for a reason. Understanding how it works — and what disrupts it before you ever open the medicine cabinet — changes how you
What Is Bio-Individuality? Why There's No One-Size-Fits-All Diet
When I first went Paleo, I followed the rules. No grains, no legumes, no processed food. And it worked — I felt better, my energy stabilized, the brain fog lifted. But the protocol also said to ditch dairy. So I tried. Three weeks without cheese, I felt no different. No digestive
Digestion: How It Works, What Goes Wrong, and What to Do About It
Most people think digestion is a stomach thing. You eat, the stomach does something, and nutrients go in. That's about a third of the story. The full picture starts in your brain and ends at your colon, with a series of critical handoffs in between. When any one
What to Expect in a Nutritional Therapy Consultation
A nutritional therapy consultation doesn't look much like a doctor's appointment. There's no prescription pad, no five-minute window, and no single number being optimized. The goal is different: figure out what's actually going on with this specific person and build a
The Foundations of Health
When a system is broken, the worst thing you can do is treat the symptom. I learned that in IT. It turned out to be even more true for the body.