If you’ve been here for a minute, you know I love talking about blood sugar. Listen to Episode 55: How to Tell if Your Blood Sugar is a Problem for a deep dive into all that.

It’s damn near impossible for anything to work well in your body if your blood sugar regulation is a mess. (That includes your hormones, friends.) Because I love this stuff so much, I did a 2 1/2 month experiment with NutriSense’s Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM). (Insert pic of Erin wearing CGM?) I got so many questions about it on Instagram that figured I’d answer all your Qs in blog format!

Exercise is a hormetic activity, which means that exercise itself is a stressor. The right amount is healthy, but going over amount can become unhealthy. When you’re exercising too much, there’s very little opportunity for the body to recover.

When we combine over-exercising with other life stressors, such as a busy lifestyle, lack of rest and recovery, and under-eating, it can become a major contributor to adrenal issues.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Kid-feeding is hard. Parents are just trying to do their best. What infuriates me, as both a mom and nutritionist, is seeing well-meaning parents and consumers get taken advantage of. Parents are purchasing Isagenix Isakids Super Smoothie, thinking they’re giving their kids a top-notch quality food, when in reality they are being duped by healthwashing.

Today I will break down some of the ingredients in the Isagenix Isakids Super Smoothie to showcase at best it’s a cheap product and at worst an unhealthy one.

I've been making a daily matcha latte elixir to support my immune health and stress response. This is the exact recipe for the Iced Matcha Latte I’ve been sipping every afternoon. You can also make it hot if you prefer! Either way, it’s a cup full of powerful Food-As-Medicine goodies. Drink up!

I’ve been talking A LOT about all the ways we can support our immune system—one of the best ways to do this is by down-regulating our stress response. These are uncertain times. Uncertainty can create a lot of anxiety.

What I hope to do with this meditation is give you a resource to come back to during these uncertain times, to calm down your own system, to relax yourself, to understand that you are safe and you have a modality for healing. This is a tool that I have used for my own healing (mental, emotional and physical) and I am happy to share it with you.

I’ve been talking about immune support for Coronavirus for the past couple of months. Long before it was en vogue...when the media was still being blamed for the virus, when the prez was still referring to the pandemic as a “hoax” and when I was being accused of fear-mongering.

No matter. I’m still here fighting for all y’all’s health and creating free helpful content like it matters (cuz it does). I’ve created lots of resources in lots of different places, so I’m combining them all here today for your convenience (and so you have ONE blog to share, instead of trying to point people in all sorts of directions).

If you want ALL THE INFO, I recommend spending some time clicking on the links below. If you want the Cliff’s Notes, this blog’s for you.

I originally made this immune-boosting soup when my family came down with the flu. My goal was to load up a soup with all the immune-supportive, anti-viral, gut-supportive* foods I could. The result was delicious, comforting and relatively easy to throw together—exactly what I was looking for while down and out. I’ve made it a few times since, and will continue to keep it on heavy rotation for the “cold and flu season”.

I posted these high protein, sugar free pancakes to my Instagram stories this morning and was asked several times over for the recipe. So here we are!

By far, my favorite way to eat corn is shaved right off the cob - raw. I’ve been making a version of this salad for well over a decade now (it’s a throwback to my raw food days), and realized it has never made it to the blog. So here we go!

A healthy sex drive is mark of vitality and health. So if your libido is low, that could be an indication that something is going on with your mental or physical health, most often hormonal imbalance. Despite how common low libido and hormonal imbalance is, people still feel pretty embarrassed about it. But there is no shame in your low sex drive game! In today’s podcast and blog, I answer a listener question: What’s up with my low sex drive?! to get to the bottom of why your libido might be low.

An autoimmune flare up is a temporary worsening and intensification of symptoms. There is usually something that triggers a flare. I would say the most common ones are a period of stress - an emotional event, a significant trauma, or a period of being overworked and/or under-rested.

Symptoms can get severe and intense — fatigue, pain, difficulty getting out of bed, brain fog & difficulty thinking, difficulty doing daily tasks are all common. Today I’m going to discuss what to do if you’re experiencing a flare.

So you’ve got an autoimmune disease. Now what?

Getting answers to our health concerns isn’t easy. It can take years, many physicians, many dismissals and many misdiagnoses before we end up with an autoimmune diagnosis. If you are one of the “lucky ones” to actually get a diagnosis, it can feel like validation. Unfortunately, the diagnosis itself doesn’t actually provide any answers. It’s really just the beginning. The next step is to figure out what caused the immune system to over-respond in the first place.

I made these no-bake cheesecake bites for 4th of July this year, but you can make this healthy, cold, and creamy dessert all year long!

I got a recent request for more food pics on Instagram. I talk a LOT about needed to eat more…and for some people, seeing it played out in photos seems to help. So here’s a full day of eating!

I originally created this recipe for another blog several years ago. By request, I dug it out of the archives to repost it here. Perfect for summer BBQs!

Herbalist and Lyme expert Stephen Buhner recommends using astragalus root to optimize immune function. He recommends taking 1,000mg every day, and up to 3000mg during Lyme season. I take encapsulated herb or tincture.

Since my daughter is only 5, I work astragalus powder into her foods. like this cold and creamy milkshake. For other ways I bolster my family’s immune system, check out all the resources mentioned in Episode 62 of The Funk’tional Nutrition Podcast.

Last week I had a client talk about food overwhelm. As in having so much information about what constitutes healthy food that it overwhelms her. Her ultimate goal is to eat perfectly paleo. But instead of taking baby steps toward that (maybe-too-lofty-for-her) goal, she throws her hands up and stays stuck.

It’s a classic case of letting perfect be the enemy of good, and most of us know it all too well. In our strive for perfection, we inevitably fall short of our ideals.

I was recently interviewed by Sara Curry of Blaze Yoga and Pilates to talk about why her students are bonking during Inferno Hot Pilates—a type of heated pilates that incorporates High Intensity Interval Training, or HIIT.

Bonking, crashing, hitting the wall...call it what you want, but when it happens, it sucks. The great thing about HIIT is that you get a killer transformative effective workout in a short period of time...but ONLY if you’re adequately fed. Here are some common mistakes people make when trying to fuel their high intensity interval training."

I literally have no idea how I came up with this Creamy Seafood Chowder recipe, but it’s in my top 5 recipes I’ve ever created, no doubt. This chowder recipe uses a fair amount of grass-fed ghee. That, blended up with cauliflower is what creates the creaminess. Since ghee is made from butter, I didn’t label it as dairy free. But many of us who are dairy free can still consume casein and lactose-free ghee.

Moms are always writing me to ask for holistic home remedies, so I figured I would share the hot beverage we’ve been sippin’ in my household. This immune boosting hot chocolate recipe includes the immune supportive herb astragalus, the medicinal mushroom reishi, plus the fat soluble vitamins A, D and E which are necessary for natural cold and flu prevention. Even better—it's super rich and delicious—a treat your whole family will love!