by Nicole Platte | Alternative health, Food, Healing, Supplements, Tests
The GAPS (Gut And Psychology Syndrome) diet is increasingly popular as a way to heal the gut. It is a sub-set of the Nourishing Traditions way of eating, with more targeted goals of healing all sorts of gut-related ailments, from ASD to auto-immune disease, to skin...
by Nicole Platte | Supplements
Vitamin C is a funny thing. It’s absolutely essential for mammalian life, and most animal life. However, humans and guinea pigs don’t manufacture vitamin C, while all other species that need it, make it. So, to make up for that we have to eat it, or...
by Nicole Platte | Recipes, Supplements
Liposomal vitamin C products are great stuff, but they are expensive! You can afford to make your own; it’s cheaper. But there is a huge time commitment needed for many of the recipes out there. Here is a clever solution that works and costs even less! I used to...
by Nicole Platte | Supplements
Picture a warehouse full of forklifts. They are zipping around, beeping and whirring, raising and lowering their forks to move boxes… …only there are no boxes. That’s what happens in your body if you have plenty of vitamins but inadequate minerals. Your forklifts...
by Nicole Platte | Supplements
If you have been told by your doctor you are anemic, or “borderline” anemic (You feel like crap but the lab says you’re “low normal”, so go home), you may be looking for a good iron supplement that won’t make you sicker and that...
by Nicole Platte | Supplements
It’s hot! It’s early July and finally summer is here in western New York with full force. Yesterday we spent a couple hours in our no-A/C van and walked over more blacktop than felt reasonable. Everyone sweats and sweats, we pour water over ourselves and...
