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  By now, you know the aisles of your local Whole Foods or natural grocery store like the back of your hand. Every week, you stock up on your organic, gluten-free, ethically produced, non-GMO perfectly created ingredients including…   Green powders- ✓ Collagen- ✓ Organic eggs- ✓ Bone broth in the fridge- ✓ Wild blueberries […]

  I see it time and again: Clients come to me with a cabinet overflowing with supplement bottles in an effort to “cure” their chronic illness…yet they don’t feel any better. Many of these people have been taking these supplements for months or years, spending, on average $200-$400 PER MONTH. But natural supplements are supposed to be […]

  I recently returned from a magical 10-day vacation in Spain, which is a 6-hour time difference from where I live in Massachusetts. My biggest fear about returning was that I would likely feel jet lag for the next six days or so. (They say it takes one day per hour of time difference to […]

    You’re walking home from dinner on your long-awaited vacation and that nagging burning sensation in your chest from acid reflux begins to bubble up. You instantly have flashbacks of those nights spent awake because the burning was so awful. You begin to fear eating anything because it could trigger the reflux. The rest […]

  You’re a few days into vacation soaking up the sun, delicious new foods, and enjoying some well overdue R&R. And then…you start to feel bloated and heavy around your stomach, to the point where every meal feels less and less enjoyable. Was it something you ate? Maybe. Do you have a stomach bug? Hopefully […]

.    Those of us in the functional nutrition and medicine world view antibiotics as the plague…but in certain scenarios, they are actually appropriate. If you come down with a severe infection that needs attention now antibiotics can be life saving. And more and more research is showing the efficacy of using Rifaximin for SIBO treatment (with the right […]

As with so many things in life, we are often left wondering what came first, the chicken or the egg? In the case of IBS and stress, did the IBS trigger the stress or did stress trigger the IBS?!   Round and round we go without getting any closer to answers or relief because we […]

  Note: This post contains affiliate links. If you choose to purchase through my link, I receive a small sum to compensate for running this blog. Thank you!!   Hemp oil, or CBD oil, is a hot topic these days as it’s now legal in all 50 U.S. states. I was a skeptic of it […]

  Today I am beyond excited to launch what I consider the biggest, most important program offering in Thrive by Food’s history…   The Rise to Thrive Master Group   The Rise to Thrive Master Group is high-level supportive circle for women who want enviously awesome health by taking a full MIND-BODY approach. A six-month […]

You can’t rush healing.   If stress got you here…wherever you are with your health…stress is not the way out. The body simply isn’t built to respond that way, especially if you want deep, real, lasting healing.   I had digestive issues brewing in me in high school, but it wasn’t until I felt incredible […]