by Dr. Samia McCully | Mar 6, 2024 | energy, Fatigue, Fitness, Health, Healthspan, Lifespan, mindful eating, nutrition, nutrition
It’s blood sugar dysregulation. It’s that afternoon dip – why they invented afternoon tea and biscuits. Or falling asleep when your kids go to bed around 7 or 8 o’clock. Or for some it’s just feeling like you hit a brick wall right after lunch. And you just...
by Dr. Samia McCully | Feb 26, 2024 | Aging, Fitness, Health, Healthspan, Immunity, inflammation, Lifespan, nutrition
The answer is always now. Did you know that Alzheimer’s, heart disease and diabetes all start developing in your 40’s, 50’s and 60’s? The appearance of disease is just the tip of the iceberg.The road to get there starts 20, 30 and even 40 years before the actual...
by Dr. Samia McCully | Feb 19, 2024 | Healthspan, Immunity, inflammation, Lifespan, nutrition
Focus on getting more nutrients from your food. In Washington and Lincoln’s time, avoiding processed food was not a concern. Neither was getting gluten free products at the grocery store. The biggest concern for ill health back then, was nutrient deficiency. Not the...
by Dr. Samia McCully | Feb 12, 2024 | Healthspan, Lifespan, mindful eating, nutrition, nutrition
Emotional eating can take hold of us like no other kind of appetite. And there are some things to know about it. It’s like a fish in a pond. Does he ever know that he is in a pond and there is a whole big world out there? Unless he’s had the misfortune of being caught...
by Dr. Samia McCully | Feb 6, 2024 | Fatigue, Fitness, gluten-free, Health, Healthspan, Immunity, inflammation, Lifespan, mindful eating, nutrition, weight loss
Variety hunger. Variety hunger actually stems from nutritional hunger, the one that drives us tosatisfy our physiological need for essential nutrients. Variety hunger comes in the form of color, texture, flavor and smell. And I’m not talking about Frosted Lucky...
by Dr. Samia McCully | Feb 1, 2024 | Fatigue, Fitness, Health, Healthspan, inflammation, Lifespan, mindful eating, nutrition, nutrition, Recipes
Essential nutrients. The only true human hunger satisfies the requirements of the body to function. You’ve heard of essential amino acids, essential fatty acids, vitamin C, vitamin D. The list goes on. Essential means that without it, we cannot have thriving...