Pumpkins seeds are full of amazing nutrition and yet it seems to be almost a secret. These little seeds are equipped with a powerful amount of organic nutrients and exceptionally high volumes of beneficial minerals. For example, 1 oz (28 grams) of raw, sprouted pumpkin seeds contains 7g of protein, 10% daily value (DV)
Category: Body Health
Coffee is good for you. Isn’t that great news? Coffee comes in many shapes and forms these days. You can drink it black, flavored, or mixed with steamed milk. One thing, however, never changes about our love of coffee. We love how it wakes us up in the morning and gets us moving! That boost
When I started making my kefir at home it seemed kind of strange to leave milk with kefir grains sitting on the counter. At home fermentation of anything was completely new to me and it felt a bit wrong at first. I was even hesitant to trust the process when I tasted my first batch
You can heal from Hashimoto’s! Hashimoto’s is an autoimmune thyroid disease that slowly drains your energy and your health. It can be crippling and feel like your life has been stolen from you. You may even feel that your body is failing you. Conventional medicine would have you believe that there is no cure except
Low Free T3? No problem – no need for a prescription! Can you believe it? It sounds too good to be true. Guggul is amazing for Hashimoto’s. After I was able to quit taking my thyroid medication, which I talk about in Part 8: How I Quit My Thyroid Medication, I started to research ways to
How are you supposed to know exactly what supplements will help you with Hashimoto’s? I remember feeling overwhelmed and confused. It is different for everyone, but some supplements are common among people autoimmune thyroid disease. While healing from Hashimoto’s, I tried many different supplements and spent hundreds of dollars trying to determine what would aid my
Do you like olives? I don’t. Sometimes I can stand them if they are mixed well with other things like in a salad, but generally I don’t seek them out. However, I can definitely get behind using olive oil. I cook with it regularly for my family. At this point, most everyone knows how wonderful
I have never worried about my iron levels before. Have you? By providing my body a regular amount of meat in my diet I figured my body would do what it was meant to do. It was never a concern of mine until I had my ferritin levels checked and found that I had low