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Teager Nutrition, La Vista, NE (2025)

11/09/2025

Whole Food Dinner

Simple - 100% homemade - Easy to Prepare

- Pumpkin Soup - from our garden Bryce Teager gets all the credit for this beauty

- Organic Baked Sweet Potato

- Chuck Steak with sautéed rosemary (from garden) and tallow

- Organic Green Apple Slices

- Organic Buckwheat Sourdough Flatbread (only two ingredients buckwheat and sea salt)

- Sautéed Organic Arugula (from garden)

Kudos to Bryce for his magnificent cooking and gardening skills. But, really, we all can cook like this. It is so much easier than I once thought! You just need to start!

10/23/2025

Is high LDL cholesterol the cause of heart disease?

If you talk to a conventional allopathic doc, the answer would likely be yes. If it’s high we better get you on statins yesterday.

We believe that LDL is there to mitigate damage to the endothelial lining of your arteries. It’s like patching up beat-up drywall in your hallway with spackle.

Insulin resistance is more likely the CAUSE, not the high cholesterol.

Cholesterol is the firefighters, high blood sugar is the fire. Why blame the firefighters for the fire? They are there to mitigate the problem!

When you are insulin resistant, your blood sugar stays elevated longer. Glucose in your vessels are like shards of glass floating through your blood. Glucose that was supposed to be quickly transported into your cells, is doing the damage because it can’t get into the cell.

High blood sugar makes your blood more viscous and thick like molasses in January.

Thick blood is harder to pump throughout your body so that increases blood pressure.

High blood pressure plus high blood sugar (glass shards) creates the damage that the LDL needs to “patch up”.

Therefore, if you have high LDL AND you are insulin sensitive it is likely that the high LDL won’t be a driver of future heart disease.

We also will look at a clients hemoglobin A1c, HDL, Apo b, LPa, visceral fat, waist circumference, thyroid hormones, fasting insulin, C reactive protein, homocysteine, cortisol…ect.

If you have good levels of all of those markers, but have high LDL, it is our opinion that you likely don’t have to be on statins in order to protect yourself from atherosclerosis.

It is well known that saturated fat from a juicy steak with butter on it will increase LDL. But as long as you aren’t washing it down with a 36 oz soda and capping it off with cake and cookies, you will be just fine. Your HDL (“good cholesterol “) will take the excess LDL cholesterol back to the liver to be recycled since it wasn’t needed to patch up any damage in your arteries.

Hope this helps! Let us know if you have any questions.

10/10/2025

Another side effect of statins?!!

The side effect in question may cause an increase in blood sugar and increase weight gain. Two effects that will increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and all cause mortality. Interesting huh?

Research out of Cell Metabolism Journal done in 2024 found that statins significantly decrease GLP-1. The same peptide that people take Ozempic and Wegovy.

This was a 50% decrease in just 16 weeks and the trend line was continuing to go down!

How was this not headline news? This study was done a year ago.

So not only do statins decrease your COQ10 levels and increase insulin resistance, but they also decrease the peptide that regulates blood sugar and decreases appetite.

I am not telling you to get off your statin, but I hope that with this information you will do a little more research on your own if you are thinking about or currently taking statins.

If you need help with your cardiovascular and metabolic health without taking statins (or a lower dose), then shoot us a message and consider booking an appointment with us to see if we can help.

Let me know us you have any questions.

In health,

Teager Nutrition

09/22/2025

Healing, weightloss, muscle building, hormone balance; whatever your goal is, will take time.

It is a process, often times more in depth healing needs to be done in stages and will be done over the course of 12-18 months.

When expectations are realistic, progress will flourish because you have given your body time to heal.

We are here to help, but understand, we don’t have magic pills. If you are trying to use a magic pill, without addressing root cause issues, you are only putting a Bandaid on and will likely continue to have issues later on down the road. We give clients actionable tasks, aligned with what they need based on their bio-individuality.

Ideally we would see clients consistently every 1-2 months to help clients build on their previous consult and go over what has been working and what has been difficult for them.

Healing isn’t linear, but if you have someone to guide you through this journey, you are more likely to accomplish your goals and feel much better.

If you are experiencing negative symptoms or have some health goals, we would love to work with you!

With education in Functional Diagnostic Nutrition, Dietetics, Exercise Science, and Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis, we bring it all together to create custom protocols for each of our clients.

09/18/2025

Do you have an auto-immune issues and need help?

There are many things that have potential to make your auto-immune symptoms worse even when you think you are eating clean. Even if you don't have a diagnosed auto-immune disease, you still may benefit from restricting certain foods for a period of time to allow your gut health and immune system to restore and repair.

People that are serious about their auto-immune disease will typically implement an AIP diet (Autoimmune Protocol).

Many times it will help, but in some difficult cases we must dive deeper. Many foods can trigger an autoimmune flair.

Most people have heard to avoid gluten, dairy, eggs, peanuts and nightshades....but if that still isn't working, we may have to look at other culprits. This is what we attempt to do at Teager Nutrition with our clients.....find the hidden food and lifestyle triggers by investigating and doing a little diet detective work.

Here is a list of other chemicals found in foods that may also be causing your issues. It can be tricky because these are normally found in what most people consider healthy foods. What is healthy for one person, may not be healthy for another person at that point and time in their lives.

Potential Culprit List:

Salicylates
Oxalates
Histamines
Lactose
Casein
Gluten
Nightshades/Alkaloids
FODMAPS
Purines
Lectins
Phytates
Goitrogens
Phytoestrogens
Ovalbumin
Glyphosate

I know it sounds like a lot and it can be overwhelming, but the symptoms of auto-immune disease can also be overwhelming. You may also be able to reintroduce certain foods once healing begins.

If you want to take charge of your health and learn more about how you can heal yourself and not just mask symptoms with pharmaceuticals, then feel free to reach out to see if we might be able to help.

Teager Nutrition

09/02/2025

Want to improve body composition? The focus should be more than just counting calories.

We ask a lot of questions of our clients when trying to investigate what might be holding them back from their weight loss goals.

We certainly don't limit those questions to "what are your macros"...and "how many calories are you consuming per day"

Those questions can be helpful, however, here is how we rank the importance of the diet in the people we work with.

1) Food quality
2) Food quantity
3) Food timing

Did you notice how we have food quality ahead of quantity?

Here is why.

If you are consuming high quality, nutrient dense foods that are mostly unprocessed and not soaked in pesticides/herbicides/fungicides then number 2 (food quantity) will mostly take care of itself.

Sure you could slash your calories and lose a lot of weight fast, but how long can you sustain that lifestyle? If those calories are empty, with very little nutrients and short on essential amino acids, you will likely also suppress your hormones and lose lean muscle right along with that body fat. This will tank your metabolism and you will need to cut your calories even more to lose any additional body fat. Not sustainable for most people.

On the flip side, if you focus on food QUALITY then your hormones, mitochondria, gut microbiome, neurotransmitters, etc.. will be firing on all cylinders and make process take a lot less willpower and effort. It might take a little longer, but you will be able to sustain this lifestyle indefinitely.

Food timing can also be important. For example, if you are eating and drinking the majority of you calories right before bed this can decrease the quality of your sleep. If you are not sleeping well this will lead to insulin resistance, decreased willpower, suboptimal hormones, sluggish mitochondria...ect.

Another example of how food timing is post workout meals. This is a good time to add in some carbohydrates to your diet. This will help top off your glycogen stores, but not spill over into fat gain or increased triglycerides. If your timing is off and you are eating a ton of carbs on your non-training days, then you will get a massive spike in blood glucose, followed by a big pulse of insulin. Chronic increases in insulin will stop lipolysis and beta-oxidation (fat loss) in its tracks.

If you are somebody that isn't getting good, long term results from counting macros and calories, try to focus on food quality and see if that moves the needle for you.

If you need help determining the food quality piece of the equation, then reach out to us to see if we might be the right fit for you for your health and wellness journey.

Have a glorious day,

Teager Nutrition

08/27/2025

Trying various ways to make beets more appealing to our clients. Beets are a fantastic, nutrient dense food that is great for heart health and blood pressure due to the nitric oxide precursors. Give this recipe a try and tell us what you think.

Roasted beets (roast it whole and the skin comes off easy, then dice them)
Roasted walnuts
Diced apples (sautéed in EVOO)
Fresh mint
Sautéed rosemary

Dressing:

Olive oil
Lemon juice
Dijon mustard
Raw honey
Garlic powder
Dried thyme, oregano and sage
Red pepper flakes

I dont measure, so just add it all to taste if you are trying this

Mix up the dressing with the beets and apples and garnish with the fresh mint and sauteed rosemary.

You could add balsamic vinegar and feta cheese too. Some fresh basil with that would be fire.

You can still make this without all the fancy fresh herbs. I just have those in my garden right now. I bet you could go as simple as: beets, apples, lemon juice and olive oil and it would still be good.

Let us know if you try it and what you think.

08/14/2025

Do you know…..

You can eat the leaves, tendrils and flowers of squash plants.

Yep.

Zucchini
Pumpkin
Butternut
Tromboninci (my favorite squash bc it is pest resistant)
Acorn…ect

Make is just like you would spinach or kale. They make great wraps as well.

High in fiber, minerals and vitamins…low in calories.

Have you tried squash leaves?

07/10/2025

Full Moon tonight!

Time for any potential parasites/eggs to move out.

07/08/2025

Don’t fear the sun…respect it.

Get sun exposure while the sun is high for vitamin D production. You need UVB to produce Vitamin D. Get morning sun (infrared) to help reset your circadian rhythm and to give your skin more protection from the sun later on in the day.

The sun can also increase nitric oxide, so if you have high blood pressure, make sure to get a healthy amount of sun each day.

07/08/2025

Parents are trying to feed their toddler’s a healthy lower sugar snack, however, unbeknownst to them, they are giving them nearly 4 times the “safe” amount of glyphosate!

If you choose to give any oat product to your toddler (or yourself), choose an organic option to limit glyphosate exposure.

Glyphosate disrupts the gut microbiome and is considered a probable cause of cancer.

06/30/2025

Here is a list of the top 12 foods you want to buy organic….or even better, grow them yourself in your garden!

These foods are heavily sprayed with pesticides and herbicides. Coffee is another one that you want to buy organic is possible. Look for an organic, mold free coffee.

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