What the Health?!

Everyone talks about “boosting” your immune system (and that’s not a bad idea); but what about all the things we do on a daily basis that are impairing our immune system’s ability to function? It’s like boxing with one arm tied behind your back – you don’t really have a fighting chance! The only way you can catch ANYTHING is by being a hospitable host. It all boils down to the simple idea that som...

You might be thinking: A whole episode on inflammation – are they crazy? But did you know that there are different types of inflammation? That inflammation is a natural process in your body that can be beneficial at times? That the medication taken for inflammation might be doing more harm than good? That chronic inflammation is not only linked to a laundry list of health challenges but can also b...

We are constantly asked to trust external entities with our health: Trust the Experts, Trust the Research, Trust the Science. But shouldn’t we stop to ask ourselves a few obvious, but important questions – Who is doing (and benefiting from) the research? Are we looking at the full picture or just a fragment of the truth? Are we relying too much on the “data” and not enough on our common sense? It’...

Twenty years ago, the Journal of the American Medical Association released a study suggesting that 1/3 of children born in 2002 would be deemed diabetic at some point in their lifetime. Those children are now 22 years old. And surrounded by hidden and not so hidden sugar in our diets and more screen-filled sedentary lifestyles, things just aren’t looking good. That’s why the topic of blood sugar i...

Good Cholesterol? Bad Cholesterol? Where do we start? Cholesterol gets a bad rap that it really doesn’t deserve. In today’s episode of What the Health?!, we’ll break it all down for you – LDL. HDL. Cholesterol in food and Cholesterol in the body. When Cholesterol is a health risk and what you can do about it. Because by understanding how the body works and what the body does with Cholesterol, we c...