mitochondrial dysfunction

What I will not be eating for breakfast

While putting away the food I brought to eat during my vacation, I came across something, already in the fridge, that I would not be eating for breakfast (or any other time). Going against the very nature of why we eat, I knew that consuming this breakfast food, engineered for convenience, would not bode well…

Food First Nutraceutical

Food First Nutraceutical may sound like an oxymoron, but it’s not! With the purpose of providing nutritional value and health benefit, nutraceuticals can be a food or a supplement. Straddling both, Cellemental Complete is a whole food derived (a.k.a. Food First) nutraceutical delivered in the convenience of a capsule which may also be opened and…

Worst health informing best health

When I worked as a direct care RN on a critical care pediatric unit, what gave me the most peace of mind was not planning for best outcomes, but for worst ones and then thinking how to prevent them. This way of inverted thinking has broad application including the leveraging of personal health. Instead…

Ingredient spotlight: Sea cucumber

Did you know that sea cucumbers are marine invertebrates in the same phylum (share evolutionary similarity) as starfish and sea urchins? Despite being consumed as a food and health tonic by many cultures, today and traditionally, sea cucumbers are still considered quite the oddity with their peculiar characteristics and unique composition. A case in point…

Ingredient spotlight: Sea buckthorn

Did you know that the sea buckthorn berry–plump, orange, grows on thorny bushes, thrives in the artic–possesses a plethora of amazing attributes? Having to withstand extreme conditions, sea buckthorn is well-provisioned with unique properties that impart an impressive robustness. This, along with its history of use and beauty, gave us plenty of reason to pick…