Homemade gummy candies are a wonderful immune boosting treat for kids, particularly because they are made with grass-fed beef gelatin. Gelatin is an incredible nutrient to help support healthy gut and healthy brain function, and because 85% of our immune system is located in the gut, this is especially important! These gummies are incredibly easy to make and can be flavored to your liking. Also, store them in the refrigerator to help ...
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Soaked Black Beans Recipe
Do you soak your beans before cooking them? Traditionally, people did because when they're soaked for long periods of time, it helps to neutralize the phytic acid and enzyme inhibitors, as well as, break down the "difficult-to-digest complex sugars." Then, the beans are more easily digested and all of the nutrients are more easily absorbed. As you'll see in the recipe below, it's actually quite easy to do. It just involves the extra ...
How to Support Focus and Improve Your Energy Using Supplements
Is your ability to focus and maintain your energy like the song from Toby Keith..."I'm not as good as I once was'? As you get older, you notice that you feel like the same person, but your body...well, it disagrees. Am I right? I’ve heard variations of this “story” from so many people, which is why I’m writing this 3-part series to give you my best strategies on how you CAN be as good as you one were! Click here to read part 1 about ...
Protein-Packed Banana Pancakes
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day! Here’s why… Maintains Healthy Weight: The foods you eat to “break-your-fast” determine the type of fuel your body takes in and the kind of nutrients it will be more sensitive to. Therefore, if you “break-your-fast” with fat, it will be much easier for your cells to utilize and effectively burn fat. Supports Good Energy Levels: The foods you eat in the morning lay the foundation for ...
Beet Kvass
Raise your hand if you’ve ever been completely freaked out after you went to the bathroom and saw that your pee was red and your poop was purple? But then…you remembered you had beets the night before. There was actually one time when Josh was changing our daughter’s diaper that he started yelling in a terrified voice, “SEASON!!! Come here…hurry!” Of course, I took off to the room because I thought someone was dying. However, all I found ...
3 Ways to Improve Your Gut Biome
I’m excited to have my dear friend and health advocate, Shawna, sharing with you today! She is not only an avid researcher and queen in the kitchen, but if you ever open her refrigerator, you will find it full of gut healing foods! Shawna is also someone I have admired and learned from as a mom and a wife. We met about 12 years ago. However, our relationship really grew when I began to regularly visit their family farm, Kid Creek Pastures, ...
5 Foods That Fight Cancer
I’ve previously shared the horrifying response I received from our son’s Oncologist when asked about what foods our son should or shouldn’t eat during his 3.5 year cancer battle… “Oh, don’t worry about that,” he smirked, “A calorie, is a calorie, is a calorie. We just don’t want him to lose weight. Feed him whatever he feels like. If he wants French fries or a cupcake from the cafeteria, let him have it.” And let me just go ahead ...
