Like many avid home chefs, I draw my cooking knowledge from myriad sources. My mom’s many lessons in the kitchen when I was a child (and on our phone calls today), videos and recipes on the internet, cookbooks, and advice from colleagues all influence how I cook. While drawing on all these sources helps inspire different ideas and has helped refine my point of view on food, it occasionally allows for some misinformation to slip through the cracks. We’ve all bought into a food

The exact forms, exact doses, and exact timing — plus the "healthy" supplements in your cabinet right now that are disrupting your estrogen, spiking your cortisol, and stalling your thyroid. You line them up every morning. Six bottles. Sometimes eight. The ashwagandha you bought because TikTok said cortisol. The DIM you bought because Instagram said estrogen dominance. The biotin you bought because your hair is thinning. The magnesium because you read an article. The women’s

Even though you can’t see them, endocrine disruptors are all around you. They are invisible to the naked eye yet linked to serious health problems like obesity, reproductive disorders, developmental issues, and cancer (to name a few). Awareness of these chemicals has grown drastically over the last 20-25 years. Unfortunately, the evidence coming out of the latest research isn’t good. In fact, the problem is greater than anyone realized. Though a few steps have been taken to

Tell the EPA: Stop Toxic Exposure – Ban Formaldehyde The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to nearly double the amount of formaldehyde it considers safe to inhale by adopting a new exposure threshold. That new car smell? It’s actually the off-gassing of toxins, primarily formaldehyde. Formaldehyde isn’t just in car interiors. It’s used as a preservative and adhesive in just about every consumer product you can think of, from furniture, flooring, and carpets,

Thanks to classic “Got Milk?” advertisements, many of us are aware that calcium and vitamin D support bone health. But have you ever thought about the foods that cause the opposite effect? The National Osteoporosis Foundation reports that around 54 million Americans have poor bone density. Often the first sign of poor bone density is a fracture, and at that point, it becomes much more difficult to improve bone health. In fact, fractures not only make it more difficult to im