You've heard me say it a hundred times: food is medicine. But here's the piece most wellness advice leaves out: it's not just what you eat. It's what your food has been sitting in, wrapped in, and microwaved in before it ever reaches your plate.
New research is confirming something I've watched pl...
A recent headline made a simple point worth paying attention to: if your plastic food containers are cracked, cloudy, or worn out, it may be time to let them go. In functional medicine, we often look at health through the lens of total body burden, which means paying attention not only to what we ea...
How are microplastics sneaking into your healthy foods?
A recent study published in the journal Ecotoxicology and Public Health reveals that cutting boards made of plastic, particularly polypropylene and polyethylene, can contaminate food with microplastics. Researchers found up to 1,114 microplast...
