Cortisol is often the cause of anxiety, restlessness, constant fatigue, and yes unexplained weight gain or difficulty losing weight. If you’re raising your hand right now, like that’s me, then you’re in good company. More than 77% of Americans report experiencing stress and all the drama that occurs alongside it. So what the heck is […]

All I knew about sickle cell disease from my days in clinical practice was that sickle cell was painful and predominantly impacted the Black community.  And based on the demographic of the hospital and clinics I worked in, most providers treated patients as just drug-seeking for pain medications.  Little did I know at the time, […]

Ahh, the world of modern nutrition. It looks like dieting and food restriction. Pictures of people with these amazingly chiseled bodies saying following my method and you’ll look like this too. Literally, everyone is on a diet most of the time. People, and let’s face it, women, focus on calories, high protein, low carbohydrate, low […]

I think at this point most people acknowledge the idea that gut health is important and as a result want to learn how to restore gut health. The problem though is that people aren’t exactly sure what good gut health looks like and how to actually fix it. The other challenge is not just one thing works for all people. Given that we are all bio-individual, meaning personal differences exist throughout each part of the human body, there is no perfect approach to ensuring our diet and lifestyle alone will restore gut health.

When making healthy lifestyle changes, most people only consider what foods they should and shouldn’t be eating…

Does your schedule overwhelm you before the day even starts? Do you feel like you’re not living up to your standards? And instead of feeling in control, you feel busy, anxious, and unproductive?

Maybe you should adjust your standards.

I recently made a big decision in my business. And I have to be honest, it was a hard decision. I knew that making that decision could potentially hurt my credibility. But I made it anyway. You know why? Because if I didn’t, I would be staying where I was out of fear and not aligning with where I knew I was called to be. Let me say that again, where I knew I was called to be.

Community. A feeling of fellowship with others as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals. Now more than ever we need community. We need to surround ourselves with people who want the same things we want and have a desire to take action to get those things. We need to know that people […]

Health disparities in the Black community is not new. Type 2 diabetes in the Black community is not new. Hydroxychloroquine is not new. COVID-19 is new and that has you scared.

COVID-19 is highlighting a problem that has long since existed in the Black Community. So it’s not a new problem, but COVID-19 has you wanting to do something about it.