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Julia Gillis
Jun 27, 20244 min read
Is Alcohol Poison? How Much is Too Much Alcohol? Can I Drink Alcohol While Trying to Lose Weight?
Ok. Listen. I love drinking; specifically alcohol. I love red wine & fancy cocktails & gin & mescal - I really love mescal. I started...
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Julia Gillis
Jun 5, 20247 min read
Are You "Pear-Shaped"? How Estrogen & Genetics Play a Part & How You Can Make Changes
Forget the hour-glass shape; we've got pears & apples. Maybe you've got it, or maybe you have that friend (or a few) who have the dreaded...
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Julia Gillis
May 15, 20248 min read
The Trauma Diet - How Spiritual Dis-ease Creates Inflammation & Obesity; How Unloading Your Heart Takes off Unwanted Pounds
What if you could lose weight on a diet...for your trauma? What if that constant feeling of heaviness that seems to grip your bones,...
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Julia Gillis
Apr 16, 20248 min read
How to Get Your Supplements; Teas vs. Herbal Extracts vs. Pills for Natural Health Benefits; What Should You Take & How Should You Take Herbal Remedies?
"Nothing is better for you than natural, whole foods." This is actually something I used to say - but I've known better for a few years...
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Julia Gillis
Apr 2, 202410 min read
Is Walking or Running Meditation a Thing? Do You Have to Sit Still to Meditate? Why Sitting Still to Meditate is Useless for Those Who Love to Move.
I have never been good at sitting meditation. I've been asked more times than I can remember, over the course of my life time, if I...
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Julia Gillis
Mar 6, 20244 min read
Vegan Protein Powders Review; Heavy Metals, Optimi Mushrooms, New Favorites & New Lessons
I've been through a TON of different Vegan Protein Powders. First of all, I'm not vegan or vegetarian. But I used to find that whey...
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Julia Gillis
Feb 27, 20245 min read
Chronic Stress & Weight Gain vs Acute Stress & Weight Loss
I recently spent approximately two weeks cycling through massive stress hormone upswings & flat-lining that had me hypervigilant in...
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Julia Gillis
Feb 21, 20244 min read
Caution! Folate VS Folic Acid; Vitamin B9 Pregnancy Awareness
Folic acid is pressed upon pregnant women more than any other supplement. This is the synthetic form of B9. That's right - made in a...
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Julia Gillis
Feb 15, 20243 min read
Choosing the Parent You Want to Be
How do we learn all the dynamic roles we are to fill in this life? Where does our personal education for life skills happen? From our...
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Julia Gillis
Feb 15, 20245 min read
Type 3 Diabetes & Alzheimer's Disease
Have you heard of this!? Type 3 Diabetes. Type 1 (you're born with it) & Type 2 (you develop this) are already a massive problem in North...
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Julia Gillis
Feb 10, 20245 min read
Benefits of L. Reuteri - Make Your Own Yogurt
I NEVER thought I would be making my own yogurt. I honestly don't like cooking or baking anything complex that takes more than a few...
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Julia Gillis
Jan 22, 20245 min read
Top 2 Protein Bars for Training & Travel
All protein bars are not created equal. Not even close. My personal goal for when I eat protein bars is to put the least amount of trash...
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Julia Gillis
Jan 22, 20248 min read
Keto while Pregnant, Keto while not Pregnant, Inflammation & Antioxidants
If you're on Keto - which you might, probably hate or find horribly difficult - do you still struggle with feelings of inflammation or...
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Julia Gillis
Jan 17, 20246 min read
Book Review: This is Your Brain on Food by Uma Naidoo, MD
The most recent book I have devoured (almost.) I'm currently part way done this book, but not sure if I will finish it through in-depth...
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Julia Gillis
Jan 17, 20245 min read
How to Find Your Purpose In Life After Trauma
Being raised in a dysfunctional environment means your tool bag of life skills falls massively short of what is necessary to have a good...
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Julia Gillis
Jan 9, 20245 min read
Quitting Coffee & Caffeine as Addiction & Trauma Recovery Work
As a part of my recovery journey, a few years ago, I chose to cut out coffee & cut out caffeine to work through addictive substance use &...
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Julia Gillis
Jan 4, 20244 min read
You Don't Eat Carbs?!
The amount of times I've heard this exclamation annoys the crap out of me; due to the nutritional ignorance of the phrasing. I'm celiac....
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Julia Gillis
Jan 3, 20246 min read
The WORST Symptom of Postpartum
I walked into my favorite pedicure place in my small town, on Vancouver Island, 8 days after giving birth for the 3rd time. The 20 year...
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Julia Gillis
Dec 27, 20235 min read
Coffee& Kelp Sugar Body Scrub
Why the fudge am I deciding to hand make a beauty product?! Seriously - this was not part of my life plan or business plan. But I'm...
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Julia Gillis
Dec 20, 20234 min read
Suppliments I Will Happily Take for the Rest of My Life
Why we all need Omega 3 & Alpha Lipoic Acid - forever. In my adolescence, my mother had decided to insist that I had bipolar or was manic...
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