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What the British Cycling Team can teach you about reclaiming your health.
Does this sound familiar? You’ve been doing really well. Haven’t had any slip-ups on the strict diet you follow, no...
Is your relationship to your body or your illness stopping you from healing?
Living with a chronic illness or autoimmune condition is tough. Do you: Resent or feel betrayed by your body? Feel...
Faux-rerro Rocher
This is far and away one of the most popular recipes I have asked my friends and family to try, pretty much to date. I...
Your Toxic Burden: How to Reduce It and Improve Your Health
In parts one and two of this series, we explored how detoxification in the body works, and how toxin sensitivity can...
Chocolate-Ginger Molasses Cookies
This recipe has become a firm favourite in the Puglia household, where we have a need for healthy cookie recipes as we...
Your Toxic Burden: Toxin Tolerance or Sensitivity?
What do you think of when you hear the word toxins? Perhaps you picture them on an industrial scale: coal plants...
Decadent, Fruit and Nut Chocolate Slab
This is my all-time favourite recipe for trail mix. The mix of salty, smoky and sweet is totally divine and somewhat...
Lavender Poached Pears
These lavender poached pears are a healthy and delicious treat to have with the family. Ingredients: 2...
Peppermint Cacao Truffles
We’re taking truffles to a new healthier place by adding pumpkin/pepita seeds, hemp seeds and figs for additional...
Christmas Pudding
Is there anything more English and Christmassy than Christmas Pudding? It's one of my favourite childhood Christmas...
Healthy Hot Chocolate
The holiday season is a time for gently indulging in foods that maybe don’t make up your usual menu. And I firmly...
Healthy Holiday Gingerbread
Healthy Holiday Gingerbread Makes at least 24 cookies Ingredients: 2 ½ cups buckwheat flour ¼ tsp. fine sea salt ½...
How To Survive The Holidays on a Restricted Diet
It's Holiday Season! Are you filled with the joys of this time of year? Or dreading the parties and family get...
Nut & Seed Loaf
I don't know about you, but gluten free bread has never lived up to my expectation. When you add in needing to be egg...
Super Seed Crackers
Ingredients: 1 cup of sunflower seeds 1/2 cup of pumpkin seeds 1/4 cup of poppy seeds 1.5 tsp of salt 1 tsp of lemon...
Sundried Tomato Spread with Rosemary
This spread is delicious on a cracker or slice cucumber into rounds for a grain-free “cracker”; mix with a little...
Christmas Morning Pancakes
Who doesn't love pancakes for breakfast?? But making pancakes that are fluffy, soft and delicious without gluten,...
Counting the Rainbow. Checklist for Children.
One of my favourite strategies for helping kids to engage with healthy eating, is to count their colours every...
Apple-Cinnamon Shrub
Shrub is a sweet-tart beverage made of fruit or fruit juice, sweetener, and vinegar. Ingredients are combined and let...
Holiday Sweet Potato Casserole
Sweet potato casserole for Thanksgiving and Christmas seems to be a very American dish to me. We didn't grow up with...
Creamy Cauliflower Mash
Are you a huge fan of cauliflower like me? If so, you have to try this creamy cauliflower mash! Ingredients: 1 large...
Your Toxic Burden: How Detoxification in the Body Works
Thanks to the rise of health gurus in the media and across social networks, it’s likely you may have seen articles...
Balsamic Roasted Beans
These Balsamic Roasted Beans are quick to make, delicious to eat, and are totally healthy! They will become a common...
Succulent Roast Turkey
I'm sure that we all agree, that the turkey the sun that the whole roast-meal revolves around! Traditionally, turkey...
Roasted Brussel Sprouts with Bacon and Apple
Oven roasting vegetables is an easy, hands-off way to enhance the natural flavours. We know that Brussel's have a bad...
Triple Berry Cranberry Sauce.
Named triple berry for the use of juice, whole fruit and dried fruit, this healthy cranberry sauce is a family...
Slow Cooker, Apple Roasted Turkey.
This recipe for roast turkey breast (or crown), is absolutely delicious and super easy!! If you need a moist, juicy,...
Beef Pot Roast
Beef pot roast is a classic family meal. Here we have a delicious version that is allergen free! The seasoning adds a...
Stuffed Sweet Potato
This is a fast lunch (or dinner) using leftover meat and vegetables. Ingredients: Baked sweet potato (1 per person)...
Genetics and Autoimmunity
Genetics and Autoimmunity https://youtu.be/np7rpc5Czg8 Welcome to video three in the series on autoimmune disease....
What Really Happens When You Have Autoimmunity and Drink Alcohol?
The subject of alcohol is a tricky one to navigate in my clinical practice. It’s pretty socially acceptable not to eat...
Meat Loaf. A healthy, allergen-free, take on a family favourite.
Ingredients: 1 large onion, finely chopped 2 celery ribs, finely chopped 1 large carrot, finely chopped 3 teaspoons...
Gut-Healthy, Rainbow Rice Salad
Eating the “colors of the rainbow” helps us stay healthy by providing special plant chemicals, found in the pigment of...
9 Proven Ways to Calm Your Stress when it’s an Autoimmune Trigger
In part one of the series, I explored how autoimmune disease and emotional trauma are linked, and how repetition of...
Can Stress and Anxiety Cause Autoimmune Disease?
Part one of two in a series examining autoimmunity and trauma. If you have a long-term autoimmune disease, it's easy...
A Surprising Autoimmune Trigger Hiding In Your Mouth
Does this sound like you? You’ve been ill with an autoimmune disease for a while, but you can’t recall a battle...
Autoimmune Triggers: Is There a Magic Bullet for Everybody?
Autoimmune disorders are on the rise in the westernised world. You, or someone dear to you, might be struggling with...
How the Immune System Works and What Goes Wrong!
How the Immune System Works and What Goes Wrong! In this second video describing what autoimmunity is all about, we...
What is Autoimmunity
What is Autoimmunity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37flWT53vTA Welcome to my video series on autoimmune disease. I'm...
What I do to raise kids who love eating healthy food.
I am super hesitant to write this down because I don't want to tempt fate or jinx myself, but my kids love eating...
Perfect Pancakes. GF DF Egg Free.
I think that egg free pancakes might be one of the things I thought were impossible for a long time. I'm not really...
Butternut Squash & Beets over Greens with Mustard Vinaigrette
SERVES: 8-10 Oven roasting vegetables is an easy, hands-off way to enhance the natural sweetness of root...
Full Spectrum Smoothies. Making ‘eating the rainbow’ delicious and fun.
As you may know by now, "eating the rainbow" in order to include all 6 classes (colours) of phytonutrient is a...
The Importance of Telling YOUR Story – The Magic of the Functional Medicine Timeline
The Functional Medicine Timeline There is one thing about health I know to be true for everyone. Your health today did...
Dirty Rice and Beans
The traditional version of Dirty Rice and Beans, a Southern side dish, uses a ground meat like chicken liver or...
The Power of People. How your relationships and social circle impact your health.
Have you ever considered your relationships when thinking about how to improve your health? When I first started...
SIBO soup
The SIBO diet can seem terrifyingly sparse in the earliest, most restricted stages. As I've been using it with my...
Fun Find Friday – Healing Spices, the medicine cabinet in your kitchen.
Hola everybody. It's the end of yet another week. My goodness this year is just RACING past isn't it?? But, with...
Gut Healing Cherry Berry Kudzu Jelly.
Kudzu root starch is beneficial and healing to the small intestines and is an alternative thickener to corn starch....
Gut Supportive Prune Apricot Compote
Prunes or dried plums are a good source of fiber, sorbitol (a sugar alcohol that can soften and loosen the stool) and...
