by Jonny Bowden | Anti-Aging, Blog, Nutrition, Weight-Loss
The liver is ground zero for detoxification in the body. It’s also the body’s main fat-burning organ. If it’s not working right, you’re in big trouble. What kind of trouble? Well, fatty liver disease for one. Known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), about...
by Jonny Bowden | Anti-Aging, Blog
Our thoughts and feelings have a profound effect on our physiology. You may have heard said, “what you think about expands?” All that really means is that what you pay attention to, what you spend psychic energy on, has resonates deeply in your body and has a...
by Jonny Bowden | Anti-Aging, Blog
Sleep is the ultimate anti-aging strategy. Anyone remember from the old movies how people who were stressed out and experiencing what was then quaintly called a “nervous breakdown” were sent away to a sanitarium for the “rest cure”? Makes sense when you think about...
by Jonny Bowden | Anti-Aging, Blog
Years ago, I participated in a panel at a health and wellness fair sponsored by the Los Angeles Times. On this panel were a number of practitioners, many of them forward-thinking specialists in integrative and functional medicine. I don’t remember who I shared that...
by Jonny Bowden | Anti-Aging, Blog
Most of you probably never heard of Adele Davis, but back in the 60’s and 70’s she was the most recognized nutritionist in the country. And she had one piece of brilliant advice that I still remember to this day. Here’s what she said: “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch...
by Jonny Bowden | Anti-Aging, Blog
Whenever someone tells me how confused they are about diet—which is pretty much every day of my life—this is what I tell them to do. It’s the simplest, easiest “intervention” you can do. It doesn’t require counting grams, calories, ounces. It doesn’t require that you...
by Jonny Bowden | Blog, Everything Else, Recipes
Spoiler alert: I’m going to talk about vaccinations. This subject has become so polarizing that any slight deviation from the establishment line on this—no matter how nuanced or reasonable—gets you lumped in with the antivaxxers, widely derided as crazies,...
by Jonny Bowden | Blog, Nutrition
When I was a kid, my grandmother was always trying to get me to eat a lot of foods you had to chew a lot. “Gives you roughage”, she’d say wisely. “Keeps you regular”. Well, that was then, this is now. Our prune-eating grandmothers were onto something, but they had...
by Jonny Bowden | Blog, Nutrition, Recipes, Weight-Loss
The saddest thing about this week’s “shocking” revelations regarding the sugar industry is not what the sugar industry actually did but; what’s really sad is that this is the first time most people are learning about it. If you happened to miss the headlines of the...
by Jonny Bowden | Blog, Nutrition
Watermelon owes its claim to fame as one of the world’s healthiest foods to three facts: One, its high water content (about which, more in a moment); two, its high content of lycopene; and three, its high levels of vitamin A and carotenoids, including the important...
