Nutrition

Kraut Juice: A Probiotic-filled Beverage.

by chelsea | Jul 8, 2016 | Beverages, Fall Fermented Vegetables, Featured, Fermented Beverages, Ferments, Herbal Apothecary, Nutrition, Recipes, Traditional Food Basics

What is Kraut juice? Kraut juice is probably the cheapest and most probiotic-packed beverage that you can make for yourself at home. It only takes a few minutes, and it is a great way to get started making fermented foods. We drink this regularly at our house and we...

10 Ways to Sneak Nutrients into your Diet Without Taking a Pill

by chelsea | April 11, 2017 | cornerstone, Featured, Health and Wellness, Nutrition | 8 Comments

These days, with things to contend with such as soil depletion, food traveling great distances before it reaches your table, and processed foods that are stripped of nutrients, it can be hard to get the nutrients that your body needs in your daily diet. Although there...

What You Should Know About Stomach Acid

by chelsea | November 19, 2019 | Featured, Microbiome, Nutrition, Recipes | 8 Comments

Have you ever had heart burn? Reflux? Indigestion? Did you reach for an antacid? Are you on a PPI? Unfortunately, these popular remedies can have dire consequences on your health. Did you know that your reflux, heartburn, or indigestion was almost certainly the result...

Is Gluten-free Really Healthier?

by chelsea | October 4, 2019 | Health and Wellness, Microbiome, Nutrition | 8 Comments

So much of the nutrition information that the public is given is confusing, conflicting, and often misleading. There are numerous reasons for this and I will go into them later in the post. First, let's answer the question at hand: Is Gluten-free Really Healthier ?...

Protecting Your Microbiome

by chelsea | March 15, 2017 | cornerstone, Featured, Health and Wellness, Microbiome, Nutrition | 2 Comments

By now you have probably heard that you have have more bacterial cells than actual human cells! This collection of bacterial cells is called your microbiome, microbiota, or microflora depending upon who is speaking. For the sake of simplicity, I will refer to it as...

Probiotic Chocolate Bars

by chelsea | March 25, 2020 | Nutrition, Recipes, Sweet Treats | 2 Comments

These chocolate bars are my way of getting spore-based probiotics into the kids regularly since they can't swallow capsules yet. I use my all time favorite probiotic, MegaSpore, for these chocolate bars for a few reasons: It is spore based so it actually alters the...

Three Easy Ways to Add Fermented Foods to Your Daily Diet

by chelsea | April 28, 2017 | Fall Fermented Vegetables, Ferments, Microbiome, Nutrition, Recipes, Spring Fermented vegetables | 0 Comments

You have probably heard that fermented foods like kraut (sauerkraut) are full of probiotics and that probiotics feed the good bacteria in your gut or microbiome. Now the question is how to get them into your daily routine so that they become a habit. You are much...

Sprouts: Detoxify, Fight Cancer, and Balance Hormones

by chelsea | March 28, 2017 | Featured, Microbiome, Nutrition, Recipes | 0 Comments

Sprouts are one of my favorite ways to get extra nutrients into my diet! They are tasty, simple to make, and jam-packed with nutrients, many of which are cancer-fighting. I add them to salads, sandwiches, wraps, and even soups (such as Mung bean sprouts for Pho). Even...

Does Red Meat Cause Cancer?

by chelsea | October 11, 2018 | Featured, Health and Wellness, Nutrition | 7 Comments

Does red meat cause cancer? No doubt you have heard the various studies in the news, health magazines espousing the evils of red meat. Then on the other side, there is the grass-fed, pastured meat movements espousing the health benefits of red meat. There are diets...

Homemade Hand Sanitizer: Microbiome Safe

by chelsea | March 15, 2017 | Featured, Health and Wellness, Microbiome | 4 Comments

If you're not sure why you need a microbiome-safe hand sanitizer, go here to read all about your microbiome and why you need to protect it. What's in Hand Sanitizer? Most store-bought antibacterial hand sanitizers, besides being made of dangerous petroleum-based...

Food Sensitivity Testing and Elimination Diets: What You Need to Know

by chelsea | April 20, 2020 | Health and Wellness, Homeopathy, Nutrition | 2 Comments

If you hav been reading this series, you may realized that many of your symptoms are caused or exacerbated by food sensitivities. Now you just need to figure out WHICH foods are causing you problems! How do you do it? Well, there are a few ways to go about this. As...

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