Welcome to More Than Healthy as we continue to share our weekly health tips. We’re talking about Tip #91, Superoxide Dismutase (SOD) and your health. To watch our weekly Video Tip, click this link. To listen to the audio podcast, click on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. What is SOD? If you’ve never heard of Superoxide Dismutase – or SOD – you’re not alone. Most people haven’t. Carla learned about it in functional nutrition school. SOD is an antioxidant enzyme that’s found in all living cells within the body.  It’s crazy that most of us have never heard of it because it’s one of the most crucia ..read more

Welcome back to More Than Healthy. We are kicking off 2023 and continuing to share some of our favorite health tips. This is week 55, and we’re talking about the health benefits of a quarterly cleanse. Some people refer to this as a detox. Whatever you call it, there are some important health benefits you can get from doing this once a quarter.   What is a cleanse? A cleanse, or detox, is a diet, regimen, or therapy used to remove toxins from the body and promote health. Sometimes cleanses are used as part of a weight loss program.  Have you ever tried a cleanse? There are proba ..read more

Welcome back to More Than Healthy! It’s now Week 48, and we’re continuing to share our Full Year of Resolutions with you. Our tip this week is all about the benefits of journaling your bowel movements. I know, I know! Here we are talking about bowel movements again! Everybody has them, but nobody likes to talk about it! But the truth is, our stools give us valuable clues as to ‘what’s going on in there’ that we simply can’t get anywhere else. Your poop tells you a lot about the health of your gut, including how your system reacts to various foods, if you’re eating enough fiber, or getting enou ..read more

Are you a fan of sauerkraut? Do you enjoy a good bowl of kimchi, or maybe some kombucha? If so, you’re already taking advantage of the health benefits of fermented foods, our More Than Healthy Tip #44 of our Full Year of Resolutions. This one was pretty eye-opening for me. I knew that fermented foods were good for you, but until a few months ago, I didn’t know why. Here at More Than Healthy, we believe that our health starts in our gut. In fact, we wrote a whole book about it! (Check out Unlocking the Leaky Gut Code to learn more about how David not only reclaimed his health but saved his life ..read more

Welcome back to our Year of Resolutions! Once again, we’re going to focus on something that is easy to do, but can be difficult to do consistently. Tip #5 is: add a healthy smoothie to your meal plan. A smoothie is an easy way to improve your health and boost your nutritional intake.  David and I have been doing this for years. In fact, we started in the ‘smoothie business’ back in 2004 with our company IdealShape. We developed meal replacement shakes to help people lose weight and get healthy. We did this for many years, and we eventually sold our company in 2016.  That experience w ..read more

Crohn’s is a frustrating disease that can be very disruptive to your life and affects your well-being. On its own, Crohn’s disease is not fatal. However, if not treated, it can lead to potentially life-threatening complications. So can you die from Crohn’s disease? Yes. But with proper treatment and important lifestyle changes, that is completely avoidable.  What is Crohn’s Disease? Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). It causes chronic inflammation in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Crohn’s can affect anywhere along the GI tract (including the mouth), but it most comm ..read more

It’s our second week of tips for a ‘Full Year of Resolutions,’ and we’re going with one of the most important things we can do for our health. And, like last week, it’s one that is easy to talk about, but significantly harder to do. Tip number two is to get better sleep. Sleep: The Foundation of Optimal Health Carla and I used to think that sleep was a pillar of health; that sleep was one of a core list of important things we needed to do, such as exercise, eat healthy, and drink enough water. We’ve changed our minds about that, however.  After reading Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, we n ..read more

Here I am on December 30th, 2021, pondering another opportunity to look forward to a new year. I feel like 2022 is going to be an amazing year for many reasons.  For Your Future Self My wife Carla has been listening to a fantastic podcast called “Better Than Happy” by Jody Moore. In last week’s podcast, Jodi explained an interesting concept: “We have our current self, our present self, and then we have our future self. And our present self wants what is pleasurable right now in this moment. That’s the only thing our present self can really care about because that’s the only thing our pres ..read more

Welcome back to our More Than Healthy Full Year of Resolutions. This week we are talking about one of the very most important health tips, and one that has been absolutely life-changing on my own health journey. Tip #36 is about the negative health effects of taking NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs). If you’ve read our book, you know that for many years, I took a lot of these drugs in order to cope with the chronic pain I was experiencing from many of my health problems.  What are NSAIDs? NSAIDs include drugs with names like Ibuprofen, naproxen, diclofenac, celecoxib, mefenam ..read more

Hello and welcome to Tip #13 in our Full Year of Resolutions! This week’s tip is all about how you can increase vitamin D to healthy levels for optimal health. This is so important! It’s also fairly easy to do.  The challenging part of this week’s tip is that not all doctors seem to be onboard. We encourage this with all our tips, but especially when it comes to supplementation, we want you to work with your doctor. Vitamin D is so important to your health that we encourage you to find a doctor who recognizes its importance and will help you get to healthier levels. Fortunately for us, we ..read more