Heat is a permeation enhancer (CPE) that increases the permeability of the tough skin barrier, and soaking in a hot bath is a natural way to increase the skin's permeability. Absorption, facilitated by hair follicles and glands, can also be a way to take in certain nutrients that support our body’s systems.

For many people, this past year or so has pushed them out of their mental health comfort zone. However, emerging research is also finding a correlation between certain nutrients and positive mental health outcomes.

The Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay (MIND) diet is a hybrid of the Mediterranean (MD) and DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diets. The MIND diet was created in response to clinical findings, from years of past research, looking at the protective effect of certain foods on the brain.

Iron deficiency anemia is a prevalent diagnosis in the US. But it is often mischaracterized and treated as a condition influenced only by iron when many other nutrients are often involved.

There are a ton of gluten-free flour options available these days, but some flours achieve better results than others depending upon the recipe. If you are trying to reinvent your favorites, it's important to know which gluten-free flours and baking techniques might work best for what you are trying to make.

We encounter a variety of stressors daily. This can take a toll on our health and wellbeing, and for some, it can lead to health issues involving our adrenals and thyroid function. How do our bodies handle stress and what can go wrong when it's just too much?

Having an unpleasant reaction to something you've eaten is a common experience. But if you have a sensitivity to a particular food, you may find you experience these symptoms frequently along with additional side effects.

Every day life stressors and environmental inputs can make it hard to get quality sleep. Find out how to reset your sleep-wake cycle and improve your health starting tonight.

Every day we are exposed to a variety of environmental toxins and this can lead to chronic conditions and symptoms that can negatively impact us. However, there is a lot we can do to keep ourselves healthy. Here are some tips to help you reduce your exposure to environmental toxins.

A guide detailing the foods and products gluten can be found in and tips on how to begin going gluten-free.

It is not uncommon for people with Hashimoto’s to have Celiac disease and more common still is gluten sensitivity in Hashimoto’s. It may be important to adopt a gluten-free diet if you are struggling with this autoimmune condition.

Whether your child is playing high impact contact sports or not, knowing how to effectively offset the downstream cascade of effects from a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) should be an essential part of your at home treatment. Secondary to the initial event of TBI is potential secondary damage that results from inflammation, oxidative stress due to fee radicals, chemical imbalances due to cytotoxicity and high calcium influx to neurons, loss of circulation, and insufficient oxygenation. All of these lead to permanent tissue and neuron damage if left unchecked.

The age old question for every parent, throughout time….

HOW DO I GET MY KID TO EAT MORE VEGGIES?!

Feeling tired all the time? Too hot? Too cold? Thinning hair? Constipated? Lots of diarrhea? Unexplained weight gain? Infertility? Brain fog? Depression? Eczema? Low libido?

These, and a number of other seemingly minor symptoms, could indicate you have a thyroid issue. While symptoms alone don’t pinpoint a diagnosis, neither does laboratory work, because it doesn’t tell us WHY your thyroid is acting up.

Testing for an MTHFR mutation is a bit of a hot topic in the Functional Medicine community lately. With a fairly simple blood draw or saliva sample, your primary care physician can easily test for the C677T or A1298C mutation.