Food & nutrition
Nourish your body with healthy and delicious food. Let our contributors break common misconceptions to change your perception of food and educate you on how to make healthier choices on a day-to-day basis. Whether you're looking to boost energy, manage an underlying health condition, or simply eat healthier, they provide the information and inspiration you need to make positive changes to your diet.
Never Neglect Nutrition and How Food Affects Your Mind
Food doesn’t just shape your body; it quietly shapes your thoughts, mood, and behaviour too. In a world that glorifies quick fixes and convenience, it’s easy to forget that every bite you take sends a...
The 3 Things They Lied to You About and the Truth Behind the Myths of Sun, Salt, and Fat
There was a time when people didn’t fear sunlight, didn’t count grains of salt, and didn’t panic over a bit of butter. And strangely enough, people weren’t as sick as they are today. Obesity wasn’t normal...
Could Your Child’s Diet Be Affecting Their Mood, Focus, and Energy More Than You Realise?
Parents today aren’t asking for perfection. They want calmer mornings, fewer emotional explosions, better concentration at school, and less of that “wired but exhausted” feeling by bedtime.
Healers Without Borders and When War Threatens the World’s Botanical Library
The loss of medicinal biodiversity due to war threatens not just regional ecosystems, but global healthcare systems. As therapeutic plants face extinction, the future of both preventive medicine and...
The Midlife Nutrition Shift and Why Restoration Matters More Than Restriction
Does your nutrition support what you truly need in midlife? Midlife invites a new lens, one that views nutrition not as a set of rules but as a means of restoring balance and optimizing function.
15 Ways to Naturally Heal the Thyroid
If you’re looking to naturally improve thyroid health, you’ve come to the right place. The thyroid plays a central role in your metabolism, energy levels, and hormonal balance, so learning how to support...
Three Simple Ways to Stay Full for Longer
Do you experience ongoing hunger even after eating a full meal? You finish breakfast, yet by mid-morning, you are already thinking about your next snack. This pattern is common and often misunderstood.
How Near a 1000-Year-Old Herbal Recipe Could Save Your Heart
Modern cardiology and ancient herbal wisdom rarely meet, yet this case study reveals how a near 1,000-year-old remedy supported heart recovery when conventional treatment options were limited.
How Stress Blocks Your Body From Using Food And How Nervous System Nutrition Can Change Everything
Many women feel like they’re “doing everything right” with their nutrition yet still struggle with low energy, cravings, overwhelm, or stalled progress. The missing link is often the nervous system.
Exceedingly Easy Six for 2026 Diet & Lifestyle Makeovers for Brain Health
With the traditional month for New Year's Resolutions having been and gone, some intentions will have survived (hooray!), whereas others may already have succumbed to the to-do list archives and been...
Ceremonial Nutrition – Ritual, Molecules, and the Biochemistry of Sacred Eating
Food is not only fuel; it is a ritual threshold. Across cultures, fasting, feasting, and sacred herbs have been used to purify, celebrate, and commune with the divine, encoding identity, lineage, and belonging.
The Pouch Generation – When Baby Food Doesn’t Need Teeth
Walk into any supermarket, and you’ll see it: a glossy wall of baby food pouches, lined up like tiny fuel canisters for small humans. They promise convenience. “On-the-go.” “Mess-free.” “100% fruit.”
How Eating Plant-Based Foods Can Heal the Root Cause of Chronic Illness
I met Dr. Lisa in the community at a dance party in Oakland, California in early 2024 when she was 47 years old. She was interested in buying my book, “21st Century Handbook,” which documents my own self-healing...
The Elimination Diet as a Therapeutic Tool in Holistic and Functional Medicine
The elimination diet is a structured, short-term nutritional intervention widely used in functional and integrative medicine to identify food-related triggers of chronic symptoms and to support...
Nutritional Investments – How to Spend Wisely and Eat for Brain Health
It is the start of a new year and potentially the springboard for new resolutions and health’spirations. If your aspirations centre around health, and most particularly brain health, here are four ideas on...
