I recommend hair mineral analysis for nearly all my clients as the best way to test for and monitor the elimination of toxic metals.  This form of testing puzzles some people because it was exposed as “quackery” in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)...

Earth Day’s today, and all weekend there have been events and meetings designed to educate people and enlist them in the cause of planetary health.

Unfortunately, way too much of this talk will focus on “veg centric” diets with vegan diets recommended as the be all and end all...

Listen to most vegans and you’d think DHA from algae is an all-natural, plant-sourced algae that is healthier than fish and more sustainable for the planet as well.
Go to nutrition conferences, and you’ll hear much the same.

In truth, there’s nothing natural about it, and...

Plants bite back!   The plant-based diet crowd doesn’t much like this idea, and is probably not going to like today’s news either.    But National Geographic reports that certain members of plant kingdom not only bite back in self defense but actively...

Without the inspiring example of Dr. Hazel Parcells (1889-1996), I wouldn’t have become healthy, much less turned into The Naughty Nutritionist.

Dr. Parcells inspired me not only because she had a great sense of mischief, but a talent for chopping and slicing through nutritional dogma....

There’s a new cereal on the market that is said to “fuel your fire,” bring out your inner “tiger” and even “fill a hole in the market.”

It debuted in Canada last month, is called SexCereal, and hopes “to penetrate the performance-enhancing...

A study in the journal Medical Hypothesis published January 30 has been scaring people away from eating soups and stews made with old-fashioned bone broth.   Entitled “The Risk of Lead Contamination in Bone Broth Diets,” it reports broth made from organic chickens is...

Today’s blog concerns the extreme danger of vegan nutrition to babies and children and the sad fact that a 12 year old vegan girl from Scotland was hospitalized with the degenerating bones of an unhealthy 80 year old woman.    I’m guest blogging about this with Sarah Pope...

March is National Colon Awareness Month, and a good time to answer a few questions about gas.

Dear Kaayla,   How much gas do people pass?     — Dick

Dear Dick,  It varies from person to person, but it averages out as 1 to 3 pints daily with about 14 episodes.

Dear...

In honor of National Colon Awareness Month, let’s talk about soy — soy as  an incomparable gas producer, as the very king of musical fruits.

Abdominal bloating, rumbling and flatus experienced by vegetarians and other heavy soyfood eaters make soy the butt of a great deal of...