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03/16/2026

💚 THE FOLLOWING LIST is ordered roughly from highest to lowest Chlorophyll content, based on studies of green pigments (chlorophyll a+b). Grouped by 3 leaves, 2 leaves & 1 leaf

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Top Chlorophyll-Rich Edible Greens Highest Concentration (mg / 100g)
• Matcha Green Tea ~565
• Spinach ~515
• Parsley ~300
• Arugula/Rocket ~259
• Garden Cress ~220
• Kale ~150
• Beet Greens
• Swiss Chard
• Collard Greens - Chlorophyll + K
• Mustard Greens - C + phytochemicals
• Watercress
• Radish Greens
• Carrot Greens
• Sprouts

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Other Notable Domesticated Edible Greens
• Bok Choy / Pak Choi (especially the dark leaves)
• Turnip Greens
• Romaine Lettuce (darker leaves = higher chlorophyll)
• Broccoli Rabe / Rapini
• Endive/Escarole
• Cabbage (Green)
• Moringa Leaves
• Amaranth Leaves
• Sissoo Spinach (Alternanthera sissoo)
• Katuk (Sauropus androgynus)
• Grasses - barley, wheat, oat, rye, alfalfa
• Algae - spirulina, chlorella, blue-green

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Wild Edible Green Leafy Plants
• Dandelion Greens - Best picked young and tender
• Nettle (Urtica dioica) - Very high in chlorophyll, especially before flowering. More than Matcha & Spinach
• Lamb’s Quarters - Similar to spinach
• Purslane - Rich in omega-3s and chlorophyll
• Chickweed - High in nutrients, often raw in salads
• Plantain (Plantago major/lanceolata)
• Wild Sorrel
• Fat Hen (related to Lamb’s Quarters)
• Magenta Spreen
• Purple Dead Nettle

Which one would you like to try?

Since it's best to rotate a wide variety of greens, why not pick one from each group?

What other edible greens can you think of?

Selection & prep tips to maximize Chlorophyll content in comments

Yesterday's green post ALL THINGS CHLOROPHYLL explains how
🩸 It is plant blood nearly identical to human hemoglobin
🤢 It uniquely nourishes AND detoxifies simultaneously
🌞 It is photoenergetically, biochemically & nutritionally connected to sunlight.
Read all about it on my Profile page
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03/15/2026

🍃 Did you know that CHLOROPHYLL IS PLANT BLOOD which oxygenates tissues identical to human hemoglobin?
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The BLOOD CONNECTION

Chlorophyll is used not only as a blood purifier, but also a blood extender in bloodless medicine

BY DESIGN

Chlorophyll is molecularly identical to hemoglobin, a beautiful hexagonal diamond shaped molecule with only one central element/mineral difference? instead of iron in hemoglobin it contains ________
GUESS WHICH ONE or see the super greens posts on my veggie loaded functional nutrition page in all their green glory 💚

CAN YOU DETOXIFY AND NOURISH AT THE SAME TIME?

When we eat to nourish, the body inevitably produces some metabolic waste byproducts. Similarly, when we detoxify, we inevitably strip away some nutrients along with the toxins

Chlorophyll is one of the few substances that can simultaneously nourish AND detoxify. Yes, it has the unique ability to both nourish & detoxify in unison

Can YOU detox and nourish at the same time? Not without greenery

🌞 🍃 The SUNLIGHT CONNECTION

Chlorophyll is the green pigment in plants that acts as a photoreceptor, absorbing sunligt to power photosynthesis

It converts this light energy into chemical energy (ATP/NADPH) by energizing electrons, initiating the synthesis of carbohydrates from water and carbon dioxide, which fuels plant growth.
Isn't that far out!?

Would you say that green is good?

Do you think that green is God's favorite color?
(Hint: Before answering, see the scripture in comments)

Is it yours?

03/13/2026

🛌 How much sleep do you REALLY need for OPTIMAL health?

MINIMUM
7 is the new 8
8 is still common for some

MAXIMUM
No more than 9
For most people, sleeping more than 9 hours nightly is an indication that something is off metabolically, especially with the body's drainage & detoxification pathways

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CONSEQUENCES of LESS THAN 7
Sleeping less than 7 hours nightly leads to serious, long-term health consequences, including increased risks for obesity, diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, stroke, depression, lowered immune function and compromised detoxification, especiallyof the brains glymphatic system. Short-term effects include impaired memory, reduced cognitive performance, severe mood swings, and accidents due to microsleep

How is your sleep quantity and quality
(both before & after Daylight Savings)?
Let's hear It in a comment...

STILL STRUGGLING with the TIME CHANGE?
Consider this safe, gentle & effective homeopathic pineal remedy to reset your circadian rhythm...
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If you have difficulty getting to sleep or waking in the middle of the night.l, see below

For my patients who have difficulty getting to sleep due to worry or mental activity, the best advice I can give them is...in comments

If you wake up 3~ 5 hours into your sleep cycle it usually indicates an imbalance of the pineal gland, which at this time should be...
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03/12/2026

👗 💊 Quality is only one of the two most important factors for SENSIBLE SUPPLEMENTATION. Proper fit, or matching nutrients to individual need, is equally important if not more important

If you wouldn't add oil to your car's engine, even the best high-grade motor oil, why take the best supplement without knowing your Baseline level?

🙈 Blind supplementation can do more harm than good.

Ultimately, testing PEOPLE is more important than testing PODUCTS. If you are not testing, you are guessing

A mismatched supplement, even of the best quality, can do more far more harm than good. Excess iron is a prime example of this

As a functional medicine naturopathic nutritionist who specializes in nutrition assessment testing, If you'd like to better & safer tailored nutrition from less pills & cost, link in Profile to the CONTACT page on my website to request brochure

03/11/2026

🎶 BEANS BEANS The Longevity Fruit, the more you eat... the longer you live.

Be a good, long-lived human BEAN

🫘 BEANS can add MANY YEARS to your life

Researchers have found an 8% reduction of premature death for every 2 tablespoons of legume intake!

Do the math!

Beans are the number 2 underutilized SuperFood and a common denominator in all blue zones around the world

🍲 See my recent post about Minestrone soup in Sardinia, including recipes

In fact the intake of legumes may be the single most important dietary predictor of a long life span. Everything you've always wanted to know about beans but have been too gassy to ask, including enhancing digestibility and debunking the lectin myth... on my bean-rich, veggie-loaded, fruit-filled functional nutrition page

Please feel comfortable to ask questions in comments

Eat more beans, live long & prosper! 🖖

03/10/2026

🎵 YOU GOTTA GO -- every single day -- if you wanna know better health

Poor & infrequent elimination ➡ chronic inflammation. Do you really want the toxic waste in your p**p hanging around in your bowel for more than 24 hours? inflammation

Whatever doesn't get eliminated in a timely manner is toxic waste that that does not just remain in the bowel. It's reabsorbed from the intestinal wall into the bloodstream, wreaking inflammatory havoc along the way - from brain to toe joint

P**p. Every. Single. Day.❗

No matter what my patients see me for, If they aren't having at least one easy, complete every day BM, this gets moved to the top of our goals list. Every other health concern then falls into place. Hippocrates was right, ALL disease begins in the gut

See the ESSENTIAL GUT HEALTH series on my functional medicine nutrition page for more about optimal stool transit time & gut health

Need personalized gut care? Link in Profile to the CONTACT page on my website to request brochure & session schedule for functional naturopathic nutrition telehealth. If you don't see it in a day or two and be sure to check your spam folder

03/10/2026

📊 When it comes to assessing your nutritional status & determining your dietary & specific supplemement needs I strongly encourage having more than one indicator or test method pointing at the same nutrient & in the same dietary direction

Even a blood or genetic test doesn't tell the whole story; these alone are not sufficient for a comprehensive, well-rounded nutrition assessment work-up

THE BODY KNOWS -- AND TELLS
Along with individually appropriate labs, physical body clues provide an invaluable complement. In some cases these are even more meaningful & accurate than blood & other pricey lab testing!

THE MOUTH is an especially rich, functional indicator of your B vitamin status. It is most accurate for Folate B-9. In fact, cracks on the surface of the tongue reveal a folate deficiency well before the blood level drops below so-called "normal." In other words it's a FUNCTIONAL indicator -- The body lacks sufficient folate to maintain tissue integrity

Folate helps to maintain the integrity of ALL body tissues, from brain, bone & gut to skin, liver & heart. Cracks on the tongue reflect compromised tissue elsewhere, including the intestinal lining, AKA leaky gut

Swipe for more revealing pics on evaluating your personal nutrition status

😛The tongue also provides
✔ 3 distinct hints of Vitamin B12 status
✔ Cracks in the corners of the mouth indicate low Riboflavin B-2
✔ Pitting edema in the ankles reveal Pyrodoxine B-6 deficiency

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Have you ever had a NUTRITIONAL PHYSICAL EXAM? Your doc doesn't do this one!

📅 BOOK YOUR LOW COST VIRTUAL NUTRITION PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
or the complete NUTRITION TUNE-UP a battery of all 8 quick tests that provide instant feedback about your nutritional status

👉 Link in profile to CONTACT page on my website to request prep packet

What more can you learn from your so called "normal" blood test?
See comments
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03/08/2026

For each one of our bodies 100 trillion cells, the basic equation for whole body health is nutrients in🔄waste products out

Be it a brain cell, bone cell, skin cell, heart cell, placenta cell, eye cell, liver cell or a gut cell, it all comes down to the cell membrane wall

4 key nutrients help to maintain cell membrane integrity and to repair damaged tissue:
• Folate
• Zinc
• Vitamin A
• Essential fatty acids (esp Omega-3)

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Here's a simple self test method to evaluate your folate status, which is more accurate and functionally meaningful than blood serum folate levels.

If you have cracks or fissures on the surface of the tongue, known as geographic tongue, this is a clear indication of a functional folate deficiency.

Since the mouth is the beginning of the gut, what we see on the tongue is also going on throughout the lining of the entire intestinal tract. In other words cracks on the tongue = leaky gut.

Folate also maintains the Integrity of ALL other body tissues, including liver, brain, bone, skin, etc.

This simple self-assessment method is one of many I teach my patients to use at home to monitor their nutritional status. If you'd like personalized functional medicine naturopathic nutrition care, link in Profile to the CONTACT page on my website to request brochure & session schedule. If you don't see it in a day or 2, be sure to check your spam folder.

03/07/2026

🌿 Each of the herbs pictured have strong brain health properties ~ and beyond

🌟 Rosemary, however, is the star of the show and one of my personal favorites

The great thing is, even if you don't like eating it, many of the same benefits can be achieved by smelling the aroma

There are however, multiple and compounded benefits by ingesting the entire herb. I've had several patients tell me they love the flavor and smell but not the twiggy needle texture. If this is you, ask in comments how to make it more palatable and I'll provide some tips to get it down painlessly

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Rosemary enhances brain health primarily by boosting memory, alertness, and cognitive speed, often attributed to its compound 1,8-cineole, which increases the neurotransmitter acetylcholine

It acts as a powerful neuroprotective agent, with carnosic acid fighting oxidative stress, reducing neuroinflammation, and potentially mitigating Alzheimer's and Parkinson's

🗝 Key Bennies

• Memory and Cognition Enhancement: Inhaling rosemary aroma can improve memory performance up to 15%. It increases alertness, attention, and processing speed

• Neuroprotection and Alzheimer's Prevention: Rosemary's carnosic acid content fights free radicals and reduces brain cell damage. A stable derivative of this compound can reduce Alzheimer’s-linked toxic proteins (amyloid-beta and tau) and increase neuron synapses

• Neurotransmitter Regulation: Compounds in rosemary, particularly 1,8-cineole, help prevent the breakdown of acetylcholine, a critical neurotransmitter for learning and memory

• Mood and Stress Reduction: Aromatherapy with rosemary has been shown to reduce cortisol levels in saliva, suggesting a stress-reducing and calming effect on the nervous system

• Neuroprotective Effects: Research indicates that rosemary extract helps reduce neuronal degeneration and neuroinflammation, protecting the brain against injury and decline

HOW TO Utilize Benefits...
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Including fresh to dried conversion quantities
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03/06/2026

🍅 🍇 🍒 DO YOU go out of your way for Tomatoes, Grapes & Cherries in the middle of Winter, even if it means importing them from Mexico and South America? Are you STILL eating Blueberries from the freezer even though they're out of season? 🫐

Why it's so important to eat seasonally

EATING SEASONALLY is one important way to keep your diet fresh, varietal & diversified. We are creatures of habit, and it's easy to fall into a monotonous eating rut. Many people go to great lengths to maintain monotony. They even go out of their way to get their grapes & tomatoes in January!

It takes effort to break out of an eating routine and keep it fresh. Set yourself a goal, keep it in mind and spend some time listing possible swaps for some of your favorites.

Favorite, after all can become a bad, unhealthy word. Nice thing about our taste buds, they are like our mind, re-trainable. The more we eat different foods, the more we literally LEARN to like them. Even if we add only one new vegetable per month, look back over the year and you've got a dozen new goodies.

I'd love to hear your ideas, and you'll find a bunch more on my veggie loaded, fruit filled, bean rich Profile page. Why not get scrolling on the page grid under my Profile and pick out your first newbie for the new month?

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8 critically important reasons why DIETARY DIVERSITY is so important

🌱 The biome of each plant feed different colonies of beneficial gut bacteria. The wider plant variety we eat the greater diversity & health of our gut biome...

7 more reasons in comments 👇

03/05/2026

Compassion & understanding are important wonderful qualities, but most vegans choose their diet based on emotion, rather than what might actually be best for their health.

They tend to put more emphasis on care for animals than they do care for their own health & well being. Noble but not usually wise

What have you noticed about the emotional makeup of the vegans in your life?

Bio-individuality rules!

One size vegan doesn't fit all ~ Neither does one size carnivore. Throughout 40 years in clinical nutrition practice I've had the opportunity to work with many patients who desperately want to be vegan or vegetarian, sometimes for up to two years doing everything possible to support their health efforts and all the while watching them get sicker and sicker. Eventually I break the sad news: you need to eat some meat, and watch their health rapidly turn around.

I'VE ALSO SEEN SOME SICKLY CARNIVORES, and likewise helped them recover their health by easing them back in to the wonderful world of plants. Neither one size vegan, nor 1 size carnivore, fits all.
See also my related comment plants are the center of the food universe....
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We need a new approach, an understanding that nutrition can and must be PERSONALIZED

Please share your thoughts about the vegan diet in comments.

03/04/2026

Perhaps the most meaningful stress coping strategy is how we THINK about stress ~ our stress perception

Stress = change, it is neither bad nor good. For example the birth of a child racks up as many physiologic impact stress points as the death of a loved one. Both divorce and marriage are high stress events

Question is, how gracefully do we adapt to change? This determines the health impact of stress, whether we can go with the flow or fight it. Life is one big transition, sometimes constant or multiple changes simultaneously. We are nothing if we're not adaptable

Re-examine & renew your view of stress to gain a healthier, more functionally adaptive stress response in cimments and even more in the post RE-EXAMINE STRESS On my functional medicine nutrition page

STRESS
REDEFINED
VS DISTRESS
= ADAPTATION TO CHANGE
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CORTISOL• When NOT to test cortisol...
See comments

NUTRITION & ADRENAL STRESS
IN PERSPECTIVE....
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