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If you’ve scrolled through online wellness platforms recently, you have likely encountered a dietary trend promising to calm the physiological storms of a woman’s body: “hormone syncing,” often popularized alongside the practice of “seed cycling.” Driven largely by women navigating the unpredictable shifts of perimenopause, as well as those meticulously tracking their menstrual cycles, the […]

People often think that dietary supplements are always safe, so may not consider that they may have potentially dangerous interactions with medications. I have written articles on drug nutrient interactions in prior months, but haven’t discussed which supplements to consider taking, and which to avoid, when taking a GLP-1 medication.  This article will discuss those […]

May protect the brain. This is what a recent study in The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry shows.  As we age, we often begin to slow down with work, and our engagement in personal hobbies or interests may slow down, too. And with those changes, we can lose purpose, or a reason to get up […]

By Carrie Dennett, MPH, RDN Peptides are a hot topic in the wellness/anti-aging space, especially among biohackers and others who want to increase longevity and prevent chronic disease. The claims—many coming from celebrities and wellness influencers—are that peptides are something of a magic elixir, a fast track to improving cognition, memory, muscle strength, sexual function, […]

Flaxseeds and flaxseed meal have a lot to offer nutritionally. They’re a wonderful source of plant-based omega-3 unsaturated fats as well as dietary fiber, which may protect against cardiovascular disease—partly by helping to reduce your total and LDL cholesterol and your blood pressure. The fiber in flaxseeds can also help keep you regular while its […]

Carrie Dennett, MPH, RDN The advice to avoid eating at night is so common—usually in the context of dieting and weight loss—that it’s practically become gospel. But is it true that eating at night causes weight gain or harms health? Let’s take a look at the research.. More than a decade ago, a study did […]

Every year, we see advertisements promoting making resolutions to join a gym or start a diet, as well as many other messages centered around food and movement. But resolutions often start strong only to fall by the wayside by February. Instead of falling into the resolution trap, have you considered working on goals that can […]

As a registered dietitian who practices with a non-diet approach, I teach my clients how to approach food, movement and their bodies in a judgement-free way. This is what the holidays mean to me when speaking with individuals. HOW you make choices about your food. Are you conscious, or unconscious when making choices at a […]

Carrie Dennett, MPH, RDN Social media, podcasts and the internet can be a mixed bag of nutrition and health information, and one questionable bit that’s been making the rounds for a while is that seed oils—cooking and salad oils pressed from canola, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, rice bran, sunflower, safflower and soy—make you sick, causing everything […]

By Carrie Dennett, MPH, RDN The dietary supplement industry brings in billions of dollars each year. If you pop a daily multivitamin, take supplemental forms of single nutrients, or reach for specialized supplements targeted at a specific health concern or your stage of life, odds are its because you want to improve your health or […]