Newsletter #36: 🧠🌾 Wheat, gluten, and mental health: Exploring the link
Anxiety and depression are rampant in America right now, with around a third of the population reporting an anxiety disorder and over 20% of adults having a major depressive episode in their lifetime. On top of this, chronic fatigue and brain fog are on the rise, and are linked to inflammation in the brain (a process called neuroinflammation). Hoards of scientific studies have suggested that diet and gut health have a profound impact on our mental health outcomes through the “gut-brain axis” as well as by the way in which our gut lining can protect our bodies from system-wide inflammation that can then trigger symptoms in the brain. A healthy gut lining and diverse microbiome serves as a strong barrier that limits the “outside world” from being able to overwhelm our bodies and cause problems (read an excerpt from Good Energy about this, here).
Newsletter #35: 🇺🇸 My health wishlist for the next Administration
More than anything, I would like to see our future White House rally Americans to be healthy and fit. We need inspirational national leaders helping to inspire people to care about their health, the food they eat, and their fitness. We also need leaders who understand the relationship between human health and environmental health, which are inextricably linked. We cannot go on poisoning the earth without destroying our own health; we are one with nature.
Newsletter #34: ⌛️ Reorienting the "longevity" conversation (plus, healthy pumpkin fudge 🎃)
In this newsletter, I’ll be sharing my experience at the HLTH conference in Las Vegas, where I spoke on the main stage alongside prominent figures like Jill Biden, Halle Berry, and John Legend. I will be discussing the importance of metabolic health and the need to focus on the root causes of chronic disease. Plus, a healthy pumpkin fudge recipe! 🎃
Newsletter #33: 🥤 The FDA is not adequately protecting us from toxic food
For this newsletter, I’m sharing a story of how screwed up and tricky our food system is to navigate, and why eating real, unprocessed, organic food that we prepare at home is the way to go for the vast majority of our meals…
Newsletter #32: 💘 9 Steps I took to find love at age 35
In today’s newsletter, I want to discuss this by sharing some of my own personal and mental struggles and responses, which I hope will shed a light on these central aspects of building Good Energy.
Newsletter #31: ☀️15 ideas for a brighter future
In this newsletter, I'm sharing 15 (potentially controversial) ideas that I am thinking hard about as I start another year around the sun at age 37 ☀️ 🎂 . These are my personal opinions, based on my current knowledge and life experiences, on mindset shifts I think could help us more toward a healthier future for people and the planet. They will probably evolve over time, because that’s what should happen to ideas. I hope they support you on your journey of inquiry for a happy, healthy, engaged life.
Newsletter #30: 🇺🇸 Behind the scenes: Yesterday's historic Senate hearing on chronic disease + nutrition
In this newsletter, I’m sharing the full transcript of my Senate testimony from yesterday. I spoke alongside fearless physicians from Harvard and Johns Hopkins, health advocates, fitness experts, and health entrepreneurs.
Newsletter #29: 💊 Supplements 101: Choosing and dosing vitamins + minerals
In this newsletter, I'm sharing my thoughts on my personal supplementation strategy including 3 reasons why I take supplements, how to utilize testing to guide supplementation, and what I look for in supplement brands.
Newsletter #28: 📚 94 health books to CHANGE YOUR LIFE (plus, healthy school lunch resources!)
In this newsletter, I am sharing 94 books that I have personally read and loved on my journey to understanding a root cause approach to different diseases.
Newsletter #27: 📢 United voices change headlines! Plus, 8 strategies for healthy travel food ✈️
In this newsletter, I am sharing how I think about meal planning when logistics are more complicated yet we still want to eat organic, unprocessed, clean food for our cellular health and 8 strategies I use to make sure healthy eating is possible during travel.
Newsletter #26: The movement is BUILDING 🚀 Plus: 111 pieces of marriage advice, & healthy s'mores swap 🏕
In this newsletter, I am sharing the 4 themes I've been hearing from the community plus sharing resources to help answer the many questions I've been receiving, Good Energy s'mores, and 111 pieces of marriage advice I've received from this community.
Newsletter #25: American health is getting destroyed (and it is simple to improve)
In this newsletter, I summarize one of the key moments of the episode which is where I share the “state of health” in the US. American health is getting destroyed. The hopeful news is that this is all fixable, rapidly.
Newsletter #24: THE #1 thing we can do to improve health
In this newsletter, I am sharing the SINGLE most effective strategy that I believe can solve the pressing human health and environmental issues facing our globe. 👩⚕️🌎️
Newsletter #23: 8 ways not drinking alcohol has transformed my life in 2024 and 5 ways it has not!
In this week’s newsletter, I’m sharing a Good Swap 🔄: alcohol for non-alcoholic beverages! Everyone’s relationship with alcohol is very personal, but if you’re thinking about a shift in your alcohol journey, this newsletter describes how my life has changed since I stopped alcohol (and how it hasn’t!).
Newsletter #22: Making meals WAY more fun with colorful veggie purées + 10 ways to create joy in the kitchen 🥦🍓🍆🌶🍠🥕
This week’s issue is a Good Food edition of Good Energy Living! 🥑 I’m sharing my smokey carrot harissa dip (one of my favorite recipes from my book, Good Energy!), how to make meals WAY more fun with colorful veggie purées, and 10 ways to create joy in the kitchen. 🥦🍓🍆🌶🍠🥕
Newsletter #21: The surprising links between plastic and metabolism, and 11 ways to protect yourself (and the planet)! 🌎
In this week’s newsletter, the Good Swap is swapping out PLASTIC ITEMS for healthier alternatives to support metabolic health. I’m sharing how plastic has rapidly become a central player in the chronic disease epidemic, why the healthcare system must rapidly take into account plastic’s impact on biology, and how we can individually decrease our reliance on plastic for our health and the health of the planet.
Newsletter #20: My Oura ring data says I should move to the jungle 😄🌴
In this newsletter, I’m sharing: My Oura ring data from before and during my trip to Costa Rica, what each metric means and how I use these metrics to help guide my health decisions, and insights from this trip about how to tweak lifestyle at home to continue the physiology-boosting benefits of vacation!
Newsletter #19: 10 KEY pieces of Good Energy content, plus a newsletter update!
This week’s newsletter is a little different format than usual! First of all, THANK YOU so much for being a part of the Good Energy Living community - I can’t believe we’re at 40,000 here, and our community is growing every day! Whether you have been a reader since January or since last week: I want to extend my sincerest THANK YOU. 🙏
Newsletter #18: Easy healthy BREAD, the best condiment in the world , and cultivating abundance
This week’s newsletter includes: an EASY healthy, keto flax bread, Homemade Good Energy Chili Oil (aka the best condiment in the world), and cultivating abundance, aka BIG BOWL ENERGY!
Newsletter #17: Finding AWE in food, healthy airplane + travel snacks, and one of my FAVE weeknight dinners
This week’s newsletter includes an unbelievably delicious lower-carb “Shepard’s pie” with whipped cauliflower topping (one of my fave weeknight dinners 🤤 ), healthy travel snacks, and finding AWE in food (An EXCERPT from Good Energy!)