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I've been talking a lot about stress and burnout from a nutritionist's perspective, but in this episode of The Less Stressed Life podcast, I look at these two using Enneagram.

So Enneagram is a system of personality typing. It has nine personality types and each one is a description of patterns...

How many sports drinks do you consume in a week?

How about coffee? Can you function without drinking it before you start your day?

Caffeine might just be the most widely used drug there is.

Readily available to consumers in various forms, it’s so easy to get addicted to this substance...

As I like saying, there is no "good" food nor "bad" food.

There's just.....food.

Each of us is intrinsically different, which means our needs, wants, culture, and how our bodies react will also be different. 

The thing is, sometimes our body reacts differently to the everyday food we...

Stress is normal. It is the body's flight or fight response wired into us. Feeling stressed is normal, but how we react to it can vary. It provides the body with an extra shot of energy when needed and works as a warning sign. The extra burst of energy can motivate us to finish our work...

Lotions, creams, soaps… you’ve tried it all but you can’t seem to figure out what is making you itch like crazy.

You’ve searched high and low for tips and hacks to get rid of scaly, red, patches and end up with the same advice or tips each time.

Nothing works...

Several years back, I did a three-part series on this blog about Intermittent Fasting.

I covered the following: 

• Introduction and benefits of Intermittent Fasting
• Tips and Tricks
• FAQs and trips and Tricks

Just to brush up on what Intermittent Fasting (IF) is, it's a more intentional...

Depending on what part of the world you are in right now, allergy season may be coming or going.

If you've been suffering from allergies, these symptoms may be all too familiar to you:

• headaches
• migraines
• difficulty falling asleep
• vomiting
• nausea
• swollen eyes, lips, or face
• sneezing
• chest...

So I went on Instagram live with my friend Jen Fugo of the Healthy Skin Show. During this live feed, she asked me this question " do you think that the carnivore diet is more problematic for long-term gastrointestinal health than it is helpful?"

What is the carnivore diet -? You only eat...

I want to share the case of a young woman I began working with this year. She was very anxious because she was began to experience numbness on one side of her body one morning. During the call, we determined that her trigger was the onset of work related stress over the course of...

Last year, I had a harrowing experience when my mom was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease - myasthenia gravis.  

It was the worst time to be in and out of the hospital during that time because of Covid, but looking back, I am just grateful that my mom got through one extremely tough year....

If you’ve been bingeing on social media these past few months, you may have noticed a lot of content created around Detox.

Well-meaning friends, relatives, or acquaintances may rave about losing weight and feeling better about <insert trendiest Detox protocol>, but what really happens...