Wethington Wellness

❄️ It’s officially winter! ❄️

Save this list of seasonal fruits and vegetables for your next trip to the farmer’s market or grocery store!

When fruits and vegetables are able to ripen naturally and are picked at the right time, they not only taste great, but they are higher in important nutrients, cost less, and stay fresher. That’s why it’s so important to choose produce that’s in-season.

How to source the right foods for your health goals is a skill students spend time learning throughout the Nutritional Therapy Practitioner Online program.

You can learn more about nutrition, the impact of real food, and how to help others make healthier choices by enrolling in the February 2022 Nutritional Therapy Practitioner program! And right now, you'll receive the Weekend Web Design course (a $399 value) for FREE. This is a HUGE benefit to your current or future business!

You’ll receive completely customizable website design templates and step-by-step tutorials for creating a gorgeous site and a beautiful brand.

Weekend Web Design walks you through every step of setting up and designing a website using the most powerful website builder out there: WordPress. As a new student of the NTA, choose from any of the website templates and start building your beautiful website!

Visit ➡️ https://nutritionaltherapy.com/courses/nutritional-therapy-practitioner-online-ntp/. Link in bio! Offer ends January 16!

How many of these foods do you have in your kitchen right now? Let us know in the comments!

In a study of heart disease, people who consumed diet drinks every day had a greater risk of diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Artificial sweeteners have proven to be carcinogenic in animal studies. They wreak havoc on your gut microbes, destroying beneficial bacteria and causing glucose intolerance. ⁣⁣
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Something that tastes sweet but contains zero calories may sound like the perfect cure for sugar addiction. But it’s not, and here’s why. Normally, when you eat or drink something sweet, it’s accompanied by lots of calories. But not when you consume artificial sweeteners. This confuses your brain. It senses that the taste of sugar without the accompanying calories from glucose and fructose is wrong, and it tries to correct the imbalance by making you hungrier. ⁣⁣
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Not only that, but it also confuses and slows your metabolism down, so you burn less calories every day.⁣⁣
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Bottom line: There is no free ride. Diet drinks are not good substitutes for sugar-sweetened drinks. They still (or even more) increase cravings, weight gain, and type 2 diabetes. And they are addictive.⁣⁣

It turns out the microbiome is likely the most important regulator of our overall health. There are 100 trillion microbes in you, 10 times the number of your own cells, and 100 times your DNA. We have 20,000 genes. Your microbiome contains 2 to 5 million microbial genes, all making proteins, cell-signaling molecules, messengers of health or disease. Some scientists estimate that a third to half of all the molecules in our blood come from microbial metabolites. They interact with our genes, hormones, immune system, brain chemistry, and every single process in our biology. Our gut microbes also provide us with essential vitamins: vitamin K and biotin.⁣
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Sadly, our gut microbiome ain’t what it used to be. We eat gut-busting foods, live a gut-busting lifestyle, and take gut-busting drugs. Want to grow toxic w**ds in your gut? Feed them a processed diet high in sugar and starch, food additives, and the microbiome-destroying w**d killer glyphosate, used on 70 percent of all crops. ⁣
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The bad bugs drive inflammation, which is at the root of almost all chronic diseases and obesity. Sixty percent of your immune system is in your gut, right under a one-cell- thin layer of gut lining.⁣
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A few simple steps to fixing your gut are: ⁣
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1. W**d. Follow the Pegan Diet, and remove all sugars, artificial sweeteners, starchy foods, gluten and wheat, and processed foods. You may need a functional medicine practitioner if you have bad bacterial or yeast overgrowth or parasites.⁣
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2. Seed. Eat probiotic-rich foods like tempeh, sauerkraut, miso, and kimchi. Or take a daily probiotic.⁣
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3. Feed. Eat prebiotic- and fiber-rich foods from garlic, onions, avocado, and green leafy vegetables. If you have severe bacterial overgrowth, introduce these foods slowly. Lightly cooking vegetables makes them easier to digest. Steam, sauté, or stir-fry instead of eating them raw. ⁣
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You can learn more in my latest book, The Pegan Diet. PeganDiet.com⁣

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Interesting article about MTHFR gene mutations, and what you can do if you have one! About 40% of people have this mutation. If you have it, you'll probably want to be taking a high quality B-vitamin (ex: folate, not folic acid.) Check out the article to learn more about methylation in the body and this specific gene mutation, or SNP.

MTHFR Mutation and 6 Natural Ways to Manage Symptoms 40% of all people carry an MTHFR gene mutation, putting them at higher risk for preventable heart disease, colon cancer, stroke, and Alzheimer's disease, and more.