How to Have Good Days When Things Go Wrong

Reading Time: 3 minutes When I counsel people, I always ask how their day starts. Do you wake up tired? Are you moody in the morning? Are you sensitive or irritable? These questions help me to determine what is going on healthwise. These symptoms are all related to hypoglycemia or low blood sugar. If you are relating to these conditions upon waking, then consider … Read More

Why You Should Take It Slow with Fast Foods

Reading Time: 3 minutes On my iPad, I have an app called News360. This app covers news from multiple sources around the globe. I choose health, science, environment and self improvement as topics that I want to read in the news. I found one article quite interesting because it was a study with children from around the world. It was written up in a health … Read More

What’s Hidden in the Meat We Eat

Reading Time: 3 minutes Physical stress is easy to identify when you look at hard labor or strenuous exercise. However, there is another type of physical stress that compromises nutrients brought upon the body because of diet. Antibiotics, Growth Hormones and Steroids. Oh My! We all know that animals destined for food production are given antibiotics, growth hormones and steroids. These substances end up … Read More

Michael Schwartz with Dr. Koontz on KNFX

Reading Time: < 1 minute “Give the body what it needs and the body will manufacture what it requires,” says Michael Schwartz on Dr. Dan Koontz’ Radio Show, KNFX in Phoenix. Enlightening! About Dr. Dan Koontz Dr. Koontz built one of America’s largest medical practices with the Guaranteed Weight Loss Cure which created the necessity of expanded clinical services for management of obesity complications. He is a consultant to several industries including … Read More

Stressed Out? The 3 Minerals Your Body Needs

Reading Time: 2 minutes Life is a wonderful, scary, inspiring, debilitating, invigorating and sometimes uncertain. Of course there are more adjectives that can be used to describe life. The truth is your life is what you make. It is the result of your belief system in action. That being said, one of the most common things we all deal with that has a profound … Read More

Can You Lick Your Sugar Habit?

Reading Time: 2 minutes We all know that sugar is not a healthy substance. It might taste great and adds a dimension of enjoyment to everything we put it on or in. But it is one of the major ingredients that leads to diseases. \ We know it affects our teeth; can add weight and cause diabetes just to name a few issues. So … Read More

Let’s Get Healthy: Choosing a Diet

Reading Time: 2 minutes On my iPad, I get U.S. and World news. There was an article on diets that I found interesting. A U.S. News panel of diet and nutrition experts examined the top five diet plans for 2013 that offer either weight loss goals or treatment of specific health conditions. They include the Acid Alkaline diet, which promises pH balance control through an alkaline-rich diet. … Read More

Welcome to my blog “Let’s Get Healthy”!

Reading Time: 3 minutes I’m all about being healthy in the “here and now” and laying a foundation for active, healthy aging. For me EVERYTHING begins with finding understandings and then building on them to get the whole picture. Said differently, the whole understanding about what is needed, and why and where to get it. As a mind/body and nutritional consultant, I saw great … Read More

Womens Health

Reading Time: 4 minutes A woman’s work is never done. At no time in history has that expression held more truth than today. Between juggling college and career, child-rearing and homemaking and hobbies, the 21st century female is almost constantly in motion. One result is that women are now experiencing more of the same types of lifestyle or stress-induced women’s health issues that formerly found … Read More

Adrenal Glands & Energy Supplements: 4 Important Nutrients

Reading Time: 2 minutes The adrenal glands are ductless glands of the endocrine system responsible for producing some of the most important hormones in the body. All glands of the body are classified as either endocrine or exocrine. The secretions of endocrine glands are always hormones, which are chemicals that regulate various physiological activities. The adrenal cortex (the outer portion of the adrenal gland) … Read More