What is an Elimination Diet?

What in the world is an elimination diet? Isn’t every diet an elimination diet? You’d think, right? But no. An elimination diet (or food challenge test) is a specific diet you do for a period of time to help determine any food allergies or sensitivities. In general, they follow a simple pattern: Weeks 1 –…

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Getting the Most from the Show

Ever wondered what all of the different methods of connecting with Joe and his teach are? Well, here we go! RADIO SHOW Monday-Friday from 3-4PM EST: SiriusXM – Family Talk Channel 131 Pittsburgh, PA – WPIT 730 AM or 96.5 FM St. Louis, MO – KXFN AM 1380 (2-3 CST) Saturday – 8-9 AM EST…

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What Your Urine is Trying to Tell You

Our urine color is a a great first-indicator of many things going on within our bodies.  For most of us, it’s an indication of whether or not we’re drinking enough water, but that’s not the only thing it can tell us. If you see something odd or worrying in your urine, don’t ignore it! Check…

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Five Steps to Curbing Holiday Stress

There’s no avoiding it. The holidays are upon us! Excitement and irritation! Joy and stress! Few things in life can create such instant internal contradictions in me as the holidays. Is there anything we can do to help enjoy the holidays with as little stress as possible? Of course! Here are five quick suggestions from Joe!…

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Simple Tips for Healthy Holiday Eating

Simple Tips for Healthy Holiday Eating It’s that time of year again! We all love the homemade food and baked goods during the holiday season, but is there a way to enjoy the holiday without overdoing it? The biggest key to success in the holiday season is trying to stay in your normal routine as…

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Skin Health & Anti-Aging, Part IV

So far in our series, we have discussed three main goals to help reduce the aging of our skin: Increase Cell turnover, Decrease Free Radicals, and Decrease Sun Damage. To wrap our series, we are going to focus on our last goal: Decrease Inflammation Inflammation to our skin can come from harsh skin care, acne,…

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Skin Health & Anti-Aging, Part III

Today, I am going to continue my discussion on skin health and anti-aging. So far, we have covered to goals to help reduce aging skin: Increase Cell turnover & Decrease Free Radical. Goal #3: Decrease Sun Damage & Exposure The sun is actually not only damaging collagen, but it almost digests the collagen. It can…

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Skin Health & Anti-Aging, Part II

Last week we discussed the first goal to prevent aging skin: Boost Cell Turnover. Today, we are going cover Goal #2: Decrease Free Radicals. Decreasing Free Radicals: Free Radicals are factors in our environment that affect our skin. Elements like smoking and sun exposure can increase free radicals, therefore damaging our collagen. We already know…

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Skin Health & Anti-Aging, Part I

Last week, I mentioned the main factors that age our skin. Today I am going to focus on one way to decrease aging skin. Focus: Boost our Cell Turnover & Revewal If we increase cell turnover of our skin, then we are stimulating collagen production. Collagen is what keeps our skin strength, elasticity, and structure.…

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Welcome to our BLOG!

March 31, 2014 I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to my first official blog.  It is our goal for this blog to become a source of information and education to all who visit our site.  We hope to fill it with valuable news, concepts and ideas that will help keep you up to…

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