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#019 TCF: Aging in America as a Woman

One of the reasons, actually the main reason, I started this newsletter up again was my experience going through menopause and my frustration with how poorly the medical system and our culture deals w...

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#018 TCF: Succession Planting 101

Photo by Markus Spiske

For the past 5 years, I've had a modest sized raised bed garden. And every year I'd anxiously wait for the huge plant and herb sale at the WNC Farmer's Market. It's truly amazi...

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#016 TCF: What you need to know about Ashwagandha

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I was delighted and kinda tickled to see Ashwagandha make its debut in the New York Times this week.Ā  You can read the article here.Ā Ā 

In many ways, Ashwagandha has been the gateway herb into Ayur...

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#015 TCF: A natural and EFFECTIVE treatment for seasonal allergies

For the first time in my life, I’m experiencing seasonal allergies. I blame it in on my Covid from January. For the record, anything new that is either inflammatory or immunity related I will be attri...

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#014 TCF: Stress and the science of worrying yourself sick

Photo by James Watson

Throughout my years in Biotech, I read 1000s of medical charts from cover to cover. By the end of my career, I could predict a patients health outcome months in advance with an ...

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#013: Ozempic, it's everywhere. Let's talk about it.

Photo by Sam Moghadam Khamseh

It seems you can't get a facial these days without being offered Ozempic.Ā It's literally everywhere. Everywhere. As in you canĀ buy it on Amazon.Ā Let's take a closer lo

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#012 The Core Four: The Ridge Garden

Queen Lime Blush Zinnias from Floret Flowers

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To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. -Audrey Hepburn

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Even though I’ve worked with herbal medicine for 20+ years, I’ve only recently started...

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#011 The Core Four: Sleep

Ā sunrise on the ridge 2022

It’s that time again when we reset our clocks an hour. I can assure you none of the animals or plants on the ridge (wild or domesticated šŸ™‚) are paying any attention to this...

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#010 The Core Four: Food

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I live in the inbetween.

I love going into the weeds of nutritional science and determining exactly what macros and fiber amount is ideal for me. I know my caloric needs and how to structure meals...

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#009 The Core Four: Stress

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Ayurveda is the Mother of all Healing Arts. As a holistic science it considers both physiological and metaphysical causes of disease and paths to healing. Any one who's studied it can tell you, it’...

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#008 The Core Four: Fitness

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You need to rest to rise.Ā 

Today I'm sharingĀ the magic of periodization training.

It wasn’t until training for Ironman that I even heard of periodization. Before I thought a good workout meant yo...

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#007 The Core Four: Food

Fiber doesn’t get enough love.

I feel like it’s the ā€˜stretching’ of the food world. You know, how workouts focus on cardio and strength with rarely a mention of stretching for injury prevention and m...

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