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How Alkaline Foods Create Whole Body Health

In order to create wellness, the human body must maintain a slightly alkaline pH balance, which ensures that there is adequate oxygen in the blood for cells to function normally.

By consuming too many acidic foods, such as meats, dairy, vegetable oils, and even certain grains and legumes - without properly balancing them with alkaline foods - you could be increasing your potential for disease.

Some of the symptoms of an overly acidic body include inflammation, digestive issues, Candida, irritability, low energy, and immune deficiency.

7 of Our Favorite Things this April

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One of the best perks of working at Integrative Nutrition is the recommendations for healthy products that our staff is always sharing. Here are just a few of the things that we love so much this month – we had to share them with all of you!

Notes from IIN’s Founder: Spring Detox Your Routine for Health and Happiness

Joshua Rosenthal, Founder, Director, and Primary Teacher, of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, shares his wisdom about creating a healthy, happy life that helps transform the world.

Spring is a season of rebirth and renewal. You can see the first signs outside –green leaves, growing grass, and early flowers blossoming.

This season is also commonly thought of as a time for cleansing. Many people decide that they are going to go on a fast or detox, especially if they have put on weight during the winter months. Some clean clutter from their homes. Others transition into a new job or career.

I’ve been working in the field of nutrition for more than 25 years, and I know that being healthy is a daily practice. So is living a life that you want.

You can think of spring as a time to renew all of your biggest dreams and goals. Start planting the seeds of your dreams to make them happen. But you need to take daily action to make progress.

Video: Healthy Skincare Tips with S.W. Basics of Brooklyn Founder Adina Grigore

Want to learn how to get healthy, glowing skin using all-natural products? Meet Adina Grigore, Class of 2006, and founder of S.W. Basics of Brooklyn, an all-natural skincare company with products made from simple, pure ingredients.

In this video, you’ll get a peek inside how S.W. Basics got started, and you will hear Adina’s top dos and don’ts of skincare. You’ll also discover which three healthy skincare ingredients you can find right in your own kitchen pantry – can you guess what they are? Find out now by watching the video:

How to Build the Foundation of a Dream Career

Have you ever heard this saying: Do what you love and the money will follow?

It means that when you do work that you love, you will naturally succeed. That’s because if you love your work, it is likely that what you do is aligned with who you are and what you value.

Maybe you’ve heard this expression and wondered, “That sounds great, but how does it really work? How can I really create a career that’s exactly the way I envision it?”

If you’re passionate about nutrition, and want to make a difference in the world, then Integrative Nutrition has a special solution just for you.

If you enroll between Monday, April 15 and Thursday, April 18 by 9pm Eastern Daylight Time, you can start your health and career journey through our Health Coach Training Program and you will get access to our exclusive IIN Business Blueprint. Click below to get all the details:

Welcome Spring with a Cleansing, Detoxifying Salad

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Although it may not feel like it today here in rainy NYC, spring has finally arrived and that means lighter, detoxing foods that are full of flavor! Soon we’ll be hitting the famers market in search of colorful produce to add into our cooking. Spring is also a great time to experiment with new flavors, be it a subtle sweetness or a bold spice.

Integrative Nutrition Reviews: The Immune System Recovery Plan

Welcome to the latest installment of Integrative Nutrition Reviews, where we consider books, movies, and other media related to health, food, and personal wellness. Want to suggest something for us to review? Post it in the comments!

Arthritis, diabetes, psoriasis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, Crohn’s disease, hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism … these are just a few of the more than 100 different autoimmune diseases that affect 24 million Americans today. Autoimmune diseases, which occur when the immune system has gone awry and attacks its own tissues, now affect more women than heart disease and breast cancer combined.

While many doctors typically treat autoimmune disorders with powerful medications that shut off parts of the immune system, Integrative Nutrition guest speaker Dr. Susan Blum offers a different guide to self-healing in her new book The Immune System Recovery Plan. Dr. Blum is an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at Mount Sinai who cured herself of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis through a functional medicine approach.

Candida: How to Cure Yeast Overgrowth Naturally

Candida is a type of fungus, or yeast, that exists in balanced amounts in every healthy body. In fact, it serves an important function by aiding in digestion and nutrient absorption.

However, if Candida yeast is not kept in check, it can release toxins into the bloodstream and cause a wide range of unpleasant health symptoms, such as food allergies, irritability, yeast infections, sugar cravings, inability to concentrate, bloating or constipation, fatigue, headaches, thick white coating on the tongue, depression, skin rashes such as eczema, acne, low sex drive, and immune disorders.*

How Healthy Are You? What Your Tongue Says

What can you tell about your health just by looking at your tongue? According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, the tongue rarely lies about your state of health.

Your tongue tells the tale of whether your innermost tissues, blood and fluids are healthy or harboring pathogens. Acupuncturists look at their patients’ tongues to get a good idea of whether there are excesses or deficiencies in strength of the qi, blood, and other body fluids. Along with a pulse and overall visual diagnosis, and discussing symptoms with the patient, the acupuncturist can know which organ systems need to be balanced through needling.

Different areas of the tongue also map to different organs and systems, so discoloration in one area can indicate deficiency in a specific area of the body. For example, redness near the tip can mean heart issues or inflammation. A thick, white coating near the back can mean sluggish digestion and toxins in the colon.

Why Red Meat May Cause Heart Disease (It’s Not the Fat)

The over-consumption of red meat has long been lambasted as unhealthy by most nutrition researchers and doctors. According to Integrative Nutrition guest speaker Dr. Walter Willett and a wealth of other studies, increased intake of red meat has been proven to raise the risk of cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and other chronic diseases.

But a new study published Sunday in the journal Nature Medicine suggests that the cause is not necessarily saturated fat or cholesterol, as commonly believed. The real culprit may be a little known chemical called carnitine.

Carnitine is found in red meat, and in smaller quantities in fish, chicken and dairy. It’s also a popular supplement in energy drinks. By itself, carnitine is harmless; the problem arises when gut bacteria metabolize carnitine into trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO), a compound that transports cholesterol to arteries where it forms blockages.

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