Healing Nutrition of Sonoma

12/07/2025

Also make sure your coffee is organic and mold free.

A synthesis of research and a deep dive into potential cellular and molecular mechanisms reveals how coffee can help prevent and mitigate liver diseases.

12/01/2025

Fall bounty! Ready to prep and freeze.
So many cancer-fighting nutrients here.

11/29/2025

CANADIANS CAN NOW USE MY REAL MUSHROOMS CODE AND GET ALL THE DISCOUNTS!

11/26/2025

Real Mushrooms Black Friday-Cyber Monday starts tomorrow!

🗓 Sale Dates:
Thursday, November 27th – Monday, December 1st

🎁 Offer:
25% off sitewide
30% off curated bundles

Fullscript offers some Real Mushrooms Products but their site offers a wider selection and larger containers with better pricing. My usual discount is 20% at the site and 30% at Fullscript so this sale gives you an opportunity to save on larger contaIners and specialty products like Mushroom Hot Chocolate. Please use my link: https://shop.realmushrooms.com/discount/mariab5?redirect=/?ref=208hocolate.

CANADIANS CAN NOW USE MY CODE AND GET ALL THE DISCOUNTS!

11/23/2025

Vibrant Blue Oils 25% for Black Friday has started.

My favorites: Parasympathetic Blend, Calm, Fascia Release

My code: https://vibrantblueoils.idevaffiliate.com/6081.html

11/19/2025

I tell my clients all the time: avoid nuts from California (even organic) unless you have verified that they are not exposed to runoff from farms using pesticides or irrigated with waste water, a common practice.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/18/california-pfas-forever-chemicals?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=fb_us&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwQ0xDSwOKu3VleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEepL6Gyi_HCcVsHYKar7b-mXVnQiCHYBa90JABDfrBgUlzDMfutu2UTw1tfVA_aem_S2jw-KyeR6B986BSwWHVtw =1763511508

‘Forever chemicals’ sprayed on almonds, grapes, tomatoes and other crops as activists warn of ‘obvious problem’

11/18/2025

Early Black Friday discount on Nutrition Genome. Link in comments.

11/12/2025

“Lower bone density factors into lifespan…”

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2270336760139340/?fs=e&mibextid=wwXIfr&fs=e

11/12/2025

Looking to optimize your diet? Gene Food’s personalized approach is more user-friendly than some other Nutrigenomics tests, and they have an emphasis on heart health. Gene Food overlaps some genes on Nutrition Genome — but they add some and some are left off. They also give you a grade for how strong the evidence is for the effects of variants (SNPs) in a particular gene.

One example is the PSK9 gene missing from NG. This one’s important for knowing whether you are a hyper absorber of plant phytosterols, which would mean eating these plants would have a negative effect on your lipid profile. In our world of eating lots of avocados, nuts, and seeds is fat sources this is an important data point to have. 

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Use my code https://mygenefood.app/dnatest?grsf=maria-rzmtha to order a Gene Food test. You’ll also enjoy their insightful emails on various health topics and gene variants.

11/11/2025

My biggest fear about anti-estrogen therapy in breast cancer survivors is bone loss in the long-term consequences of that. A hip fracture has a higher risk than breast cancer for taking you down. Sure they offer drugs to compensate but are those drugs giving you good quality bone?

https://fb.watch/Dj8SXuqQBP/?mibextid=wwXIfr&fs=e

11/11/2025

It’s beyond frustrating to me that in the US we have to pay out-of-pocket for a coronary calcium scan. Maybe this will change with these findings presented at the annual American Heart Association meeting.

Have you checked yours? I paid to have mine checked and it was zero.

Fron Precision Medicine:

A study in more than 40,000 patients has shown that those who had any detectable levels of calcium in the coronary artery were two to three times more likely to die within the next five years, with only about a quarter of those deaths being caused by cardiovascular disease. These findings were presented this weekend at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2025.

“Someone’s coronary artery calcium score could be a more powerful predictor of a person’s overall health than we previously thought,” said Jeffrey L. Anderson, MD, distinguished clinical and research physician at Intermountain Health and principal investigator of the study. “We know that not having any coronary artery calcium is a predictor of being in good coronary health, but we were surprised to find that it may also be a sign you’re in good general health.”

Computed tomography (CT) scans are routinely used to assess the severity of coronary artery disease by measuring the calcium deposits that form in atherosclerotic plaques in coronary arteries. Generally, the higher the coronary artery calcium (CAC) score, the higher the risk of a patient suffering a heart attack in the future.

The retrospective study looked at the medical records of 40,018 patients at Intermountain Health who underwent a CT scan after their doctors determined they were at risk of developing heart disease. Nearly 20% of patients had a CAC score of zero, showing no evidence of coronary artery calcium; researchers found these patients were up to three times less likely to have died in the next five years compared to those who had any levels of coronary artery calcium.

Of all the deaths reported in patients with coronary artery calcium, only about 25% were due to cardiovascular disease, highlighting the CAC score as a strong predictor of all-cause mortality.

“We don’t know the mechanism for this extended benefit, but coronary plaque may be correlated with plaque in blood vessels in other parts of the body, and having atherosclerosis may also negatively impact immune surveillance, an important protective mechanism against cancer,” said Anderson.

Going forward, the research team plans to conduct further studies looking into the non-cardiovascular deaths reported in the study and stratify their causes to find any potential links between coronary artery calcium and all other causes of death.

“This may help uncover the mechanism of why a coronary artery calcium score predicts death due to non-coronary artery problems,” said Anderson. “It’s not clear to us right now, and it requires more study, but it’s a very interesting observation and suggests that coronary artery calcium has prognostic value beyond just heart attacks and other heart-related causes.”

A smaller, independent study from Intermountain Health, also presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2025, found that CAC CT scans can also be useful in a clinical context to identify medical issues unrelated to cardiovascular health. Among 2,284 healthy patients who received a CAC CT scan, 8.5% were found to have potentially significant medical findings in any of the other organs included in the scanned area, such as the esophagus, liver, kidney, breast and other regions of the heart.

Notably, one of the patients enrolled in the study had an emergency surgery for an aneurysm that was detected during his scan. Taken together, these results highlight the potential of CT scans as a minimally invasive method to assess patient health beyond the cardiovascular system.

“We’re confident in saying we’ve saved at least one life through this study and that this tool may be useful in other preventive ways,” said Brent Muhlestein, MD, co-director of research at Intermountain Medical Center. “We’ll continue to explore these findings as a preventive health tool.”

11/07/2025

A little MORE fun.

Good thing I kept that Caboodle for all my supplements. __Thanks for being here! We’re Kim and Penn Holderness of The Holderness Family. We crea...