Dr. Jill Cole

11/18/2025

The Dirty Dozen & Clean Fifteen 2025 🍎🥬🍑🍓
**POTATOES* made the Dirty list for the first time this year!!!**

SHOPPERS GUIDE to PESTICIDES in PRODUCE
💚 Every year, the Environmental Working Group releases an updated list to make this information clearly and readily available in one place to help people make the best decisions for their family's health when navigating the produce section.

The Shopper’s Guide is designed to help people who are concerned about their pesticide exposure better understand which non-organic, or conventional, produce is least contaminated.

The Shopper’s Guide includes the Dirty Dozen™ and the Clean Fifteen™ – EWG’s lists of the most and least pesticide-contaminated conventional fresh fruits and vegetables, respectively, based on results from the latest tests by the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration.

Before testing fruits and vegetables, the USDA washes, scrubs and peels them, like consumers would. So it’s not accurate to say, as some do, that those concerned about ingesting pesticides should just wash their produce thoroughly.

When organic fruit and vegetable options are unavailable or unaffordable, EWG advises shoppers to buy produce from its Clean Fifteen list of produce with low or no traces of pesticides. This year, almost 65 percent of Clean Fifteen samples had no detectable pesticide residues.
- EWG

Print your copy, save it on your phone and do your best in the produce section! 🌱

Nearly all potato samples contain pesticide *not approved for use* in the EU.
https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/potatoes.php?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=202511NovNews7&utm_medium=email&utm_content=default&emci=3bb17b74-09c4-f011-8196-6045bdfe8e9c&emdi=42b17b74-09c4-f011-8196-6045bdfe8e9c&ceid=4568027

Details on Why the EWG releases this info every year, where they get their information and more information about the chemicals and lack of oversight/regulations:
https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/2024/03/why-does-ewg-release-its-shoppers-guide-pesticides-producetm-each-year

11/17/2025

My son & my mom. A moment captured yesterday. Always love. Always laughter. Always gratitude.
We cannot yet change the outcome of dementia or Alzheimer's - but we can influence the journey.
We may have predispositions or family histories to contend with - and that makes prevention and doing what we CAN control that much more urgent, and important.
Treat your body like it's someone you love.
Live with love.
~ and laugh - often!!

Hugs to you & your families. 💜

Take care of yourself, your health, and each other.

11/10/2025

FINALLY!! Hormones for women save lives, and improve quality of life for women across the world - and hopefully, finally, here.
I will add - *bioidentical* hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) is the safest, most effective and protective HRT available. Find a great provider you trust, and start feeling better. ❤️

ps - there are other holistic ways to support healthy hormones, without HRT, as well. This is VERY individualized ~ but I'm overjoyed women - and doctors - will start learning the value of this for us.

The Food and Drug Administration will remove the "black box" warning from hormone replacement therapy (HRT) products for menopause.

10/17/2025

Vitamin C IVs are wonderful for illness and viral infections. This was a great article from years ago that I wanted to share. I hope this helps someone, and gives you all a good education on the importance and power of nutrients and the immune system. 🙌
My friend was the provider at this clinic, and it's incredible how your body can heal with the right tools.

Stay healthy ~! 💫 🍊

Do you know that injections of mega doses of vitamin C were successfully used in treating polio, diphtheria, herpes zoster (shingles), herpes simplex, chicken pox, influenza, measles, mumps, and viral pneumonia in the middle of the 20th century? Most of these treatments are described in the book “...

10/17/2025

🕰️ 🌙 America’s Clock Changes Quietly Wrecking Circadian Health & 4 Ways to Recalibrate & Support a Healthy Circadian Rhythm ☀️💛

A recent analysis from Stanford Medicine underscores how biannual clock shifts (daylight saving time changes) actively disrupt our circadian rhythms, especially as seasons change, and that these disruptions are linked with increased risks of chronic disease, metabolic burden, and weakened circadian resilience.

The researchers show that when your body’s internal clock must be forced to shift or “catch up” repeatedly, it creates a circadian burden meaning your system has to work harder just to stay synchronized with the 24-hour day.

Here are actionable strategies to help your internal clock adapt and thrive (especially now, as we transition into fall):

Get bright, natural light in the morning
Aim for at least 10-20 minutes outside (or near a sunlit window) soon after waking. Morning light is one of the strongest cues your body uses to reset the circadian clock.

Limit evening light exposure (especially blue light)
Dim the lights, avoid screens or use a blue-light filter 2-3 hours before bed. This helps your brain produce melatonin at the right time.

Maintain consistent sleep/wake times
Try to go to bed and wake up at roughly the same times every day - even on weekends. Even small variations can degrade circadian stability.

Time your meals and movement intentionally
Avoid eating large meals too close to bedtime. Also, aim for activity earlier in the day rather than late at night.

(Bonus tip: Light exposure, movement, and mealtimes all act as “zeitgebers” - external cues that help entrain your internal clock.)

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09/22/2025

Microplastics & how to take steps to decrease your exposure.

Re: plastic water bottles:
"One study found the simple act of screwing a plastic bottle cap on and off dramatically increased the amount of microplastics found in the water it carried. With each twist on or off, it generated 553 microplastic particles per liter of water."

Microplastics gush out of our taps and flake off cookware. They find their way into the yolks of eggs, and into meat and vegetables. But there are things we can do to eat less of them.

08/28/2025

😳😳 Food safety is no joke - including organic.