The Story of WellBe Founder Adrienne’s Mother’s Suicide
Adrienne shares the story of her mother's suicide and how it led her to quit her job and found WellBe.
Ally Hilfiger on How the Long-Term Effects of Lyme Disease Landed Her in the Psych Ward
Imagine suffering from range of ailments that totally controlled your childhood and then having a psychotic breakdown at 18 that led to institutionalization. For Ally Hilfiger, now 32, that was the reality of the bulk of her childhood. When she was 7, Ally Hilfiger was bitten by a tick, but not diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease until 19. For all those years in between, she had to deal with severe fatigue, joint pain, difficulty retaining information, fainting spells, shooting pains, migraines, and serious anxiety attacks. No one could figure out what was causing her physical and neurological complications.
Max Lugavere on Foods that Prevent Alzheimer’s & Other Ways to Prevent Dementia
When his mom started showing signs of memory loss a few years ago, the journalist threw himself into researching how diet and lifestyle could’ve contributed to her dementia diagnosis.
How to Choose the Healthiest Eggs: Pasture-Raised Eggs, Free-Range, Cage-Free, and More
Not all eggs are created equal. Similar to how a fetus is affected by the health and diet of its mother, the health and diet of a hen very much affects the quality of her eggs. If you're an egg eater, you'll agree that all the terms on egg cartons are confusing— how do you tell if you’re buying high- or low-quality eggs? We investigated to figure out which terms really affect our health— and which are totally nonsense. We also talked to Mark Kastel, the co-founder of The Cornucopia Institute, a farm policy research group, for the inside info on why hen health affects our health. Here’s our WellBe education on eggs. Ready? Go.
How Rachel Winard Used Ayurveda As a Natural Treatment for Lupus
The founder of Soapwalla went from never being sick and having great skin to suddenly having all sorts of weird illnesses.
Joy Fennell on Healing Rheumatoid Arthritis Naturally through Food
After she was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and prescribed a regimen of powerful drugs, Joy decided to take control of her health. Through lifestyle and diet choices, she found her path from bedridden to thriving.
Foods that Help Your Immune System: the Link Between Gut Health and Immune System Function
When it comes to getting and staying well during cold and flu season, your top defense is with the food you eat. At our panel on Nov. 9, 2017, we talked to board-certified internist, functional medicine doctor, and author of “The Happy Gut,” Dr. Vincent Pedre, health coach and author of “The Real Food Grocery Guide,” Maria Marlowe, and INDAY founder Basu Ratnam (they hosted!) about their best tips for eating for immunity.
Treating MS Naturally: Diane Capaldi’s Amazing Success with the Wahls Protocol
After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) at 24, V Capaldi healed herself using diet and lifestyle changes alone. That’s right— no drugs, no doctors.
How the GAPS Diet Helped this Woman Heal Lyme Disease
Carley Smith goes by “The Fairy Gutmother” moniker, but the Nutritional Therapy Practitioner isn’t just administering wisdom to make others’ (health) dreams a reality, the Grand Junction, CO woman used these methods herself to turn around her health.