Genetics

By melanieavalon / July 8, 2016

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Hi! My name is Melanie, and I’m MTHFR homogeneous A1298C! How about you? A large percentage of us harbor variants of a genetic mutation which cause things in our body to go awry. Unfortunately, this isn’t some cool glitch which grants you superpowers, X-Men style. Rather, it’s a not-so-fun snag in your genetic coding, technically called a […]

Studies

By melanieavalon / June 25, 2016

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Look at the color wheel below. Can you quickly identify the blue square? Before you pat yourself on the back with glorious ideas of keen color perception… it’s pretty likely that you can. (Unless you’re color blind and didn’t realize it, in which case… #moment?) But here’s the thing: in scientific studies, cultures which don’t […]

Alcohol

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By melanieavalon / June 8, 2016

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What if I told you there was an alcoholic drink which could reduce liver damage by 93%? What if I told you it’s already in stores? What if I told you the reason you don’t know about it, is because legally they can’t tell you ANY of this? True Story. On the one hand, alcoholic […]

Fruit

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Reviews

Sugar

By melanieavalon / June 8, 2016

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Many of us struggle with #sweetproblems. While lifestyle changes like a Paleo diet or a bit of intermittent fasting are great for killing sugar cravings, sometimes you just need a sneaky little sugar hack. Enter two different superstar fruits, both with the savvy nicknames of “Miracle Fruit.” Though these two miracle fruits do completely opposite things, they’re pretty nifty tools […]

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By melanieavalon / May 30, 2016

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Imagine wearing your own personal medieval torture device on your wrist, perhaps in glistening neon pink, if such fits your fancy! While it invokes the spirit of the fitness-minded Fitbit , or the life-organizing Apple watch, this one is slightly more sinister… and potentially more life changing. It has the power, through the implementation of a precisely […]

Guest Posts

Intermittent Fasting

By melanieavalon / May 19, 2016

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I’m incredibly honored to bring you today’s post – courtesy of Vit Kashchuk, editor of www.eatstopeat.org! Brad Pilon’s Eat Stop Eat is one of the foundational intermittent fasting protocols in existence, and a major inspiration for my book The What When Wine Diet. When they contacted me about writing this guest post, I just about died. Plus, I get asked this question about maintaining […]

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By melanieavalon / April 22, 2016

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I did it. It’s one of those things I want to PROCLAIM TO THE WORLD, except I cannot do so without appearing like an utter freak. (Which perhaps I am, but one must keep up appearances.) So I shall now silently proclaim it to the virtual world: The switch to natural deodorant has been accomplished! It […]

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By melanieavalon / April 4, 2016

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Whatever you put in your mouth gets instant access to your body. I don’t know about you, but I’d personally rather not be swallowing soap, fluoride, dyes, and other chemicals every day. Also consider that your teeth only receive nutrients and minerals from direct contact, so what you put in your mouth is key! Of course, a […]

Female Issues

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By melanieavalon / April 2, 2016

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It’s funny how we turn to cleansers, lotions, and cosmetics to boost our radiance, yet simultaneously welcome substances which create aging and degeneration. It’s kinda like wanting to be friends with the token Mean Girl in high school. We also readily freak out about the toxic load of an alcoholic drink or secondhand smoke (and rightly so), […]

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By melanieavalon / March 22, 2016

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When you adopt a whole foods, natural, AVOID THE TOXINS, live as nature intended, can-I- just-be-a-cavegirl?-(not) lifestyle, you begin acquiring a lot of weird gadget/life hack objects. Unlike most weird gadget/life hack objects which end up forgotten relics of a technological age long past (here’s looking at you iCybie, AKA: my surrogate AIBO), these newfound tidbits surpass mere […]