The Special Superfood Smoothie Scroll down to check out the video and recipe! If you've been sick and not feeling well and trying to recover, or you are just trying to reset your gut, this is a quick and easy smoothie that starts the ball rolling in the right direction. It is fantastic for restoring your microbiome, boosting your immune system, and giving you a delicious way to do it. It helps to lower 19 inflammatory markers in the body that can cause you to feel miserable and sick. It has four components that all work together, and you can make it your morning smoothie to flood your b ..read more

Kefir the Immune Booster This is one of my more popular recipes, and I love it because I can make several of them ahead of time to have a fast and easy breakfast. Kefir is a necessity for my family and me during cold and flu season. Whether you are trying to keep colds and flu at bay or keeping your gut flora thriving, kefir is the easiest cultured food to make with the most probiotics of any cultured food. Kefir has many species of Lactobacillus, 19 in all. These are extremely important for keeping your lungs healthy and keeping respiratory infections from spiraling into pneumonia and b ..read more

History of Milk Many of the foods we eat have been deemed either bad or good. Throughout my life, I have witnessed that many foods once deemed to be super healthy are now being deemed bad for you - and dairy is one of them. Often it is not the food, it's what we have done to the food and what we have done to our guts that is the problem. Since so many people have stopped drinking dairy, their bodies stopped producing the enzyme that helps them digest it. Combine that with taking antibiotics that kill strains of bacteria that are needed for proper digestion and problems ensue. Researchers ..read more

One of my good friends told me her cholesterol had gone up since drinking kefir, and then she said, “That’s my good cholesterol! It went through the roof and my doctor is very pleased.”  I got a few emails this week from people expressing to me that since they’ve been consuming kefir and cultured vegetables their blood cholesterol numbers normalized and other problems improved as well. This is not an unusual occurrence. I’ve heard from friends and family and people who email me, or post on my Facebook page, that cultured foods have helped their cholesterol. Those microbes in our bodi ..read more

Superfood Smoothie Nine times out of ten, I have a kefir smoothie every morning. A cup of coffee and a smoothie has been the norm for me for over twenty years. It's super fast and it tastes really good, but since early March I've changed it up a lot with spectacular benefits. I'm kind of shocked at how much this has changed me and how much I am learning about microbes. I thought I was pretty smart about all of this. I've done tons of hours of research and experiments on my own body for several decades. I keep learning new things and mostly because I love it and I love you. Your question ..read more

 The many things cultures Can Do Nothing has influenced and changed my body and life more than cultured foods. I've done many studies on myself and my family and, hands down, fermented foods are here to stay in my life. They create such wellness for me and mine that there is no way I'm going back to my previous life without them. Diabetes, high blood pressure, food allergies, and IBS  are just a few of the things we no longer struggle with, and the benefits we've received by and large are so huge we will never stop eating them. A study was done in 2021 at Stanford School of Medi ..read more

 Reasons To Have More Vitamin K2 A few weeks ago I went to 123 Farm to speak, and honestly, one of the big reasons I go is to get their cultured butter made with kefir. It is so crazy good that it inspired me to make my own kefir butter. Certain cultures prized butter as a superior, nutrient-dense food that was made from cows eating lots of lush, green grasses. Butter that is produced from cows eating growing green grasses contains a very high amount of vitamin K2 which has been referred to as the X factor by Dr. Weston Price. He has been called the “Isaac Newton of Nutrition.” He tr ..read more

What a Typical Day Looks Like For Me People have the mistaken idea that I eat only cultured foods all day long. Although there are some days that I do eat only cultured foods, this is not the norm. These cultured foods are what I call healthy fast food with huge health benefits. You don't need to add tons of cultured foods to your diet to see benefits, and I am going to show you how easy it is. It might surprise you that small amounts can make a big difference. But here's the caveat -  if you really want to see huge changes, you need to add lots of fruits and veggies. So many fruits a ..read more

So, do you want to know why you have certain persistent problems with things like ringworm, toenail fungus, and athlete’s foot? All of these are caused by a fungus that can spread and grow like crazy and last for years and years. “Onychomycosis” is the medical name for the infection that causes the fungi to appear on the nails. It is caused mainly by the Candida species, so there is also a good chance you have Candida if any of these are plaguing your body. Medical treatment can be intense and most of the drugs for toenail fungus are super hard on your liver, and you have to stay on them ..read more

Kefir Christmas Twas The Night They Made Kefir Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, no creature was stirring not even a mouse. When out from the kitchen there came such a clatter, a bubbling and hissing . . . and even a splatter. From the jar on the counter the gurgling did come, and out to the kitchen the family did run. They opened the jar and found deep inside, the making of kefir that Christmas Eve night. This food they called kefir gave wellness to all. It had so much power and the cost was so small. So kefir was made that Christmas Eve night, and to all ..read more