by Kristi Perry Brown | Digestion, Self-Care, Sugar
Sniff, sniff. Hack, hack. Itchy, water eyes. Scratchy throat. We’ve been waiting a long time for spring to arrive and it is finally making an appearance here in the NE. But, unfortunately, so is the pollen and all the allergies that go with it. Sigh. ...
by Kristi Perry Brown | Self-Care
Early this month I did a girls weekend. Even just writing that I still feel a tinge of guilt. Before the trip, the thought crossed my mind more than once that I should just cancel it and stay home. The drive was too long, it was too hard to get away, I was being...
by Kristi Perry Brown | Detox, Digestion, Nutrition, Self-Care
One of the core foundations for everyone’s health lies in the health of your gut. In particular, your microbiome. Did you know that your body has roughly an equal amount of bacterial cells as it does human cells? (According to this recent research.) That means,...
by Kristi Perry Brown | Nutrition, Self-Care
I was a month into my first nutrition course and we were given the Blood Sugar Challenge. It was a 14-day protocol to help stabilize blood sugar levels and it was a bit of an elimination challenge as well. We were asked to go through the challenge just to know what it...
by Kristi Perry Brown | Nutrition, Self-Care
It was summer, we were staying in a little condo and taking a long weekend away as a family. Just a few days before I had done a blood draw for food sensitivities and was nervously awaiting the results. I checked my email and found the lab results had come in. I was...
