by candacekennedy | Nutrition, Vitamins + Minerals
When we’re stressed, our bodies burn through minerals FAST, especially sodium, potassium, and magnesium. Vitamin C gets used up too! Mineral depletion leads to burnout. That’s where the adrenal cocktail comes in handy. What is the adrenal cocktail? The...
by candacekennedy | Food Focus, Gut Health, Healthy Recipes, Nutrition
There’s a reason why your mom would bring you chicken soup when you were sick. Bone broth is a staple in an ancestral diet and you’ll find some version of it in just about every culture. Bone broths are rich in minerals, protein, and amino acids, especially glycine....
by candacekennedy | Food Focus, Gut Health, Healthy Recipes, Hormone Balance, Nutrition
How can eating a daily raw carrot every day improve your health? It has nothing to do with beta carotene. While there are many ways to support your body’s detox pathways, eating a daily carrot salad is inexpensive, easy, and effective. Want to have less...
by candacekennedy | Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Vitamins + Minerals
Calcium is one of the most important minerals. It plays an important role in bone and teeth health, among many other things. However, I don’t recommend supplementing it. Foods rich in calcium provide calcium in a form our bodies can use, along with co-factors like...
by candacekennedy | Health & Fitness, Hormone Balance, Nutrition, Vitamins + Minerals
Offal is not awful. Organ meats (also called offal) are a cornerstone of a traditional foods diet since they are the most nutritionally dense foods on the planet. Considering offal includes some of the best foods for hormones, fertility, and libido, it’s time to...
by candacekennedy | Nutrition, Vitamins + Minerals
Ascorbic acid (AA) is not the same as Vitamin C. It is a part of Vitamin C, but it’s just the outer shell. 99.9% of “Vitamin C” you find at the store is actually synthetic ascorbic acid. This is a problem. Why?Vitamins are complex molecules that are made up of...