Category: Nutrition

Best ways to support copper

I’ve been asked a lot about how to get more copper. These are my favorite high copper foods: + Beef liver—also has vitamin A, which is important for using copper in the body. + Citrus fruit—whole food form of vitamin C, which also has copper. + Bee pollen/royal jelly—rich in copper and B vitamins. + […]
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Why A Nutrient Deficiency Is Not Enough–Suboptimal Nutrient Status Matters

The World Health Organization defines health as the following: “health is not merely the absence of disease but also a state of complete physical, social, mental well-being.” I wholeheartedly agree with this statement. Just because we don’t have a diagnosis doesn’t necessarily mean we are healthy. I think many people can relate to having symptoms, going […]
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Nutrition is one of the top ways to reduce stress within the body

Stress is often viewed as a thing, but it’s really a response within the body. ⁣⁣Gabor Mate gives this great description of stress in his book, When The Body Says No:⁣⁣“Stress is a biological process, a wide-ranging set of events in the body, irrespective of cause or of subjective awareness. Stress consists of the internal […]
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The absence of disease does not equal health

The World Health Organization defines health as the following: “health is not merely the absence of disease but also a state of complete physical, social, mental well-being.” I wholeheartedly agree with this statement. Just because we don’t have a diagnosis doesn’t necessarily mean we are healthy.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀I think many people can relate to having symptoms, going […]
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How Your Relationship with Food & Body Image Impact Your Health

On the Are You Menstrual? Podcast I did an episode with Dana Monsees about how your relationship with food can affect your gut health. We place a lot of value on food, which is absolutely important for our health, but it can easily become stressful, obsessive, and cause more harm than good. One of the […]
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How Mainstream Diet Advice Reduces Resiliency

The key to healthy hormones long-term is to build a resilient body, which can handle stress. Stress isn’t all bad and can even often be beneficial for us. The issue most people have is that their body’s do not have the resources to respond to stress appropriately after years of being depletes. Stress depletes nutrients, […]
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Nourishing Your Body During Postpartum, Pt. 2

*Written by team nutritionist Emily Blasik If you missed part 1 of this series you can find that here, you’ll want to save this post for later—as it’s jam-packed with info on boosting breastmilk production, incorporating therapeutic movement, and utilizing extra support during the postpartum period. It also includes a list of our favorite resources […]
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Nourishing Your Body During Postpartum, Pt. 1

*Written by team nutritionist Emily Blasik The way that we approach the postpartum period here in the US does women a huge disservice, in my opinion. It’s all about how fast we can “bounce back” and shed the baby weight, rejoin our communities, and prioritize the caring of others. Very rarely are we told by […]
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Replenishing Your Minerals with Nutrient Dense Food

Today we’re diving into the nutrient-dense foods that will help you to replenish the minerals that stress depletes. Whether you’ve had the chance to test your minerals or not, the mineral-rich foods and beverages we’re going to cover in this newsletter are beneficial for everyone, regardless of mineral status. When we are stressed, we use […]
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Getting Back to the Basics for Healthy Hormones

I’ve written quite a bit about stress this past week on Instagram and whenever I dig into this topic, I get lots of questions around what people can do, supplements they can take, etc. to help combat stress. Here’s the deal, stress is often viewed as a thing, but it’s really a response within the […]
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