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Activating Collagen

Like other nutrients in the body, collagen does not act alone. Crucial for maintaining the structure of our skin, bones, tendons, and other connective tissues, it relies on a variety of biomolecules to support its production and function in the body. Collagen is the most abundant protein in a complex network called the Extracellular Matrix…

Health without the hack

Trendy, novel, and with the potential to leverage how we look, feel, and function, health hacks are attention grabbers. But, as the old adage goes, when a price tag is attached, “buyer beware!”, as it’s easy to get reeled-in by savvy sales marketing. Like being enticed to buy an expensive kitchen gadget to peel an…

Where it is vs. where we want it to be

The body’s ability to recover from injury, disease, and other assaults to its well-being is paramount. As the crisis created by these insults often takes precedence over less pressing bodily needs, it’s in the body’s best interest to respond appropriately for timely restoration of health As the restoration of health is physiologic, it is most…

Where we all want to live

We’re all familiar with the typical paradigms of quantifying health (e.g. vital signs, lab work), where treatment (e.g. medications, procedures) is dictated by where we fall within standard parameters. Less familiar is the qualifying of health, something unique to us and that we are the best assessors of. No one knows us better than…

Apoe4 – the Ancestral allele

APOE4 (A4) carriers, especially homozygotes (carry 2 copies of the APOE4 allele, A4/4s) are considered to have a genetic predisposition to a shortened life-span, cardiovascular disease, and most notoriously, to Alzheimer’s disease (up to 12x the risk). Because of this, A4 has been dubbed the Alzheimer’s gene, with some going as far as calling it…

More to skin than meets the eye

Your epidermis is showing! When I was growing up, “Your epidermis is showing!” was considered a playful tease along the lines of “XYZ” (eXamine Your Zipper). It was a tease because most kids, unfamiliar with what epidermis meant, were relieved when told it was skin! Fast forward to adulthood, drawing attention to our skin is…

Bridging foundational health with cutting edge technology

Many nutritional supplements, on the cutting edge of technology, are produced through chemical isolation (separating a nutrient from its natural source) or by artificial means in a lab with the end result being a synthetic version of its food based counterpart. Isolated and synthetic supplements are devoid of what makes them balanced in bioactivity and…

Food first: The big roll

Not one to follow a diet plan, count calories, or weigh and measure food, I instead stick to 3 basic tenets: Eat for nutrient density, whole food raised as nature inteneded. Prioritize essential macronutrients (what’s sustaining–protein, what we’d most like to burn–fat). Hone and follow my intuition and instincts! Using intuition and instincts, when…

Cellementals-time in Appalachia: Lifecycle syncing

Spring is unfurling on our mini North Carolina mountain homestead. There’s the : Unearthing of native plants—from fiddlehead fern to wild iris and lady’s slipper. Unearthing of wild critters–from bear to spring peeper and snake. Sowing of seeds and foraging to feed our rabbits. We’ve already a good start growing crimson and red clover (classic…