Nutrition Resource

10/15/2026

👨‍🍳 The kitchen is not only the ❤️ of your household, but also of your GOOD HEALTH❗️
Here's some kitchen wisdom, know-how & tips for efficient use of your time & equipment.
Please share yours.

Everyone can be a chef 👩‍🍳 including our children. See below for how to train your kids in the kitchen

FOOD PREP EFFICIENCY
✔ Food prep efficiency & advanced planning are key 🗝 Just a little thought and time investment pay big dividends. I rarely cook just one meal at a time. Prepping a stir-fry means cooking a triple batch of veggies, which is then transformed into not only a stir-fry but also soup, salad and enough leftovers for veggie sides for a number of mini meals/snacks.  Why make a bowl of soup when you can make a 2-gallon pot that lasts all week?  Batch cooking massive veggies is the secret. No matter how much extra I make, they always find a way into another veggie loaded dish

🍲 BATCH COOKING
Heat, light & air are nutrients worst enemies. With storage, there will be some nutrient loss, but it's not all or nothing. Here's how to maximize time efficiency while optimizing nutrient conservation....
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💛 INSPIRATION FROM THE MIGHTY ONION❗ If I don't feel like cooking, I crack an onion, get sauteing and watch the heavens open up...
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🍆🤔 THINK VEGETABLES ~ I tell my patients that eating healthier begins with THINKING healthier. Once you plant the contagious veggie "seed" in your brain, it's amazing how easy & second nature it becomes...
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🥕 HERE'S HOW I SET MYSELF UP FOR VEGGIE SUCCESS ~
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👦 👧 ENDLESS WAYS TO ENGAGE OUR CHILDREN of any age in wholesome food prep...
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🌈 BEYOND THE COMMENTS, there are plenty of ideas at the end of the rainbow, aka my colorful veggie-loaded, bean-rich, fruit-filled functional food page. The further back you scroll, the more you'll find...🌈

10/12/2026

Our nutrient needs are as different as our fingerprint 

No two bodies -- or their requirements for nutritional healing -- are the same

That's why in functional nutrition we ask deeper, more critical questions in order to provide truly personalized care

• What kind of growth?
• How is metabolism functioning right now?
• What does repair actually require for this individual at this time?

Which definition most resonates with you?

BIO INDIVIDUALITY teaches us that two individuals with the very same health condition can have two completely different root causes that require two different treatment approaches

NUTRITION IS NUANCED ~ One size dietary recommendation doesn't fit all.
One person's health food can be another's junk food

We need a new approach, an understanding that nutrition can and MUST be personalized.  Personalization is 🗝  If you'd like more functional personalized care, link in Profile to the Contact page on my website to request brochure & session schedule via email.

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10/09/2026

WEIGHT COFFEE CONNECTION 

 Are you struggling with stubborn weight loss? Have you tried everything?

•  I've seen more than a few patients who have long struggled with stubborn weight loss, Sometimes working with them for 2 years trying one approach after another.. Since I'm not quick to yank my patients completely off of coffee, this is one of the last tricks in my nutritionists toolbox. For many of these, when they let go of the coffee, their body more easily let's go of the weight. The coffee bone is connected to the  Brain bone,appetite/hydration bone, and the adrenal/energy bone, the liver/fat metabolism bone, et cetera. Like chocolate, coffee Is a complex substance,  and even more so the way it's commonly overused.   It's never just one thing.   For many, coffee is often the last straw

10/08/2026

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 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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Dietary diversity is critically important for these 8 reasons...

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10/02/2026

09/29/2026

💃  MINERAL NUTRITION profoundly influences blood sugar balance and insulin responsiveness (sensitivity or resistance).  It's never just one thing -- while magnesium & zinc play supporting roles, it's chromium (Cr) at the top of the trace mineral list, and often is neglected

Cr is required for construction of the Glucose Tolerance Factor (GTF) molecule, without which insulin cannot effectively deliver glucose into the cell.  This then results not only in elevated blood glucose but excess wild insulin, which does the most damage
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HOWEVER, because chromium is a fine line mineral, there being a fine line between essentiality and toxicity, I do not recommend supplementation without knowing your overall mineral balance and tootal health context

Be careful with blind supplementation, especially for more than six months.  Even while it may be doing good on the one hand, it can simultaneously be causing undetected nutrient interference and metabolic imbalance on the other.   It's always best have your nutrition status assessed before taking pills.
See the 3-part purple post NUTRITION TESTING for SENSIBLE SUPPLEMENTATION on my page.💜

One of the best food sources of chromium is nutritional yeast.  In fact, it contains nearly supplemental levels of this mineral, along with all related synergistic trace minerals and B vitamins

Related supportive posts in the MINERAL NUTRITION series on my functional nutrition page.
See the HAIR MINERAL ANALYSIS Summary post currently pinned at the top of my Profile page

💇‍♀️ 🪟 💇‍♂️  HAIR MINERAL ANALYSIS is the MRI of nutrition, a window into our mineral metabolism.  Its one of the most functionally meaningful & economical nutrition tests available

  In addition to testing for 22 nutritional minerals, it also screens for 8 toxic heavy metals.  More importantly, beyond measuring tissue mineral levels, it reveals mineral absorption, distribution and metabolism

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⚠️ BERBERINE CAUTION ~ and the better HERBAL ALTERNATIVE for Blood Sugar Balance...
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09/26/2026

🔹MINERALS ARE NATURES TRANQUILIZER ~ WE, body & mind, are made from the same stuff as these rocks - mineral dust!  Or as some like to call us Stardust -- it's all the same STUFF

MINERAL IMBALANCES contribute to many mental & emotional conditions, often behind the scenes without ever being detected

MINDBODY - THERE IS NO SEPARATION.  We cannot have a single thought or feeling without chemistry behind it. This is actually what neurotransmitters are, the biochemistry of emotion, or Energy in motion. All of this is rooted in our mineral composition

I KNOW OF NO OTHER TOOL THAT COMES CLOSE to hair mineral testing to predict, explain, and suggest nutritional solutions for such common complaints as insomnia sleepdisorders stress dementia chronicfatigue chronicpain etc.

MINERALS ARE NATURES TRANQUILIZER
In proper proportion, and precisely matched to one's unique individual need, targeted minerals have long been known as a natural relaxant

HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR PRECISE INDIVIDUAL NEEDS ARE?
Well, how do you know how much oil to add to your car's engine? If you wouldn't add oil without checking the dipstick, why take supplements or change your diet without testing your existing level and establishing your personal nutrition baseline? If you are not testing -- AND having your test results properly functionally interpreted -- you are guessing

😒 TEST RESULTS DON'T AUTOMATICALLY TRANSLATE TO BETTER HEALTH RESULTS. Have you been thinking about nutrition testing or had a test done elsewhere and not gotten satisfactory improvement from the test results❓ I treat the whole person, not just test result numbers. Proper interpretation within the context of one's total lifestyle is absolutely essential both for successful & sustainable results. In functional naturopathic nutrition, it's experience that counts. Count me in for 38 years of it! Let's talk

💇 ESTABLISH YOUR OWN MINERAL BALANCING ACT by requesting the most comprehensive & economical hair mineral test profile available by text or link in my Profile
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09/13/2026

👅 Nice thing about our taste buds, they are like our mind - they can be reeducated.  Here's the basic method: Go several days at each level using the following gradual dilution schedule.
Days 1~5 dilute regular strength juice 25% with water (¾ juice + ¼ water)
6~10 Dilute 50%
11~15 = 75%
Day 16 on whole fresh fruit or less than 4 oz diluted fresh juice. 

Just for fun, after a month or so when your taste buds have been reeducated, go back and try full strength juice again.  When I did this decades ago it tasted like sickening sweet syrup that I never wanted again, and haven't looked back. 

👧👦 REEDUCATE THOSE TASTE BUDS❗ if you offer a 6 month old who has exclusively been breastfed, the choice between either a cherry or a piece of cake, my money is on the cherry.
As healthful, unadulterated taste buds mature, we develop a liking for ALL 5 flavors. Sour & bitter should be just as enjoyable as sweet - even to the point of craving them. Most of us have just been flooded with sweet, and not properly developed our taste acuity for the other flavors or have been trained to think that bitter is bad.  In the case of lemon juice & greens such as Arugula, Radicchio and Dandelion, these are some of the healthiest & tastiest bitter food medicine, digestive aids & detox remedies.
We're not babies anymore! It's never too late to retrain your, and your children's, taste buds, and set a good example for the youngins.  Fortunately they are like our mind, re-educable.  We literally LEARN to like what we eat more of.  Related supportive posts on my functional medicine nutrition page. 😋 Learn, or relearn as the case may be, to Crave the good stuff!
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09/12/2026

🌟 KARL'S CLINICAL PEARLS ~ Highlights from my top 20 posts. Which of these would you like to know more about?

° Wholefood carbs are NOT unhealthy, don't make you fat nor whack your blood sugar

° One size diet doesn't fit all - Neither one size vegan, one size carnivore nor one size ______

° Protein powder is highly processed & detrimental. It's nutritional overkill that does more harm than good

° Your diet provides more protein than you realize and adding more is usually toxic - even more so if you have insufficient digestive enzymes & stomach acid

° So-called antinutrients (oxalates, phytates & lectins) are not poison. They have innumerable therapeutic health properties

° Peanuts are the least healthy nut

° Most all chocolate contains toxic heavy metals

° Antibiotics are rarely necessary. For 9 infections out of 10 we have equally effective, safer natural options

° Fever is your immune friend - Promote it, don't suppress it

° Insufficient or poor quality sleep is your immune system's kryptonite

° Organic Oats are NOT unhealthy peasant food

° Fiber is a neglected nutrient

° A supplement that feels good or relieves symptoms on the one hand can simultaneously cause undetected nutrient interference & metabolic imbalance, doing more harm than good

° Magnesium supplements, no matter what form, are foreign to the body and metabolized completely different than food source magnesium

° A mismatched probiotic does more harm than good

° Acid reflux is often due to insufficient stomach acid, NOT an excess

° If you're not testing, you're guessing

° Lab tests don't provide answers, they provide clues. For meaningful results, they MUST be reviewed profesionally within the context of the whole person

° Hair mineral analysis is a more meaningful & economical lab test for evaluating nutritional & metabolic status than any blood test

° 2 individuals with the same disease can have 2 completely different root causes that require 2 different treatment approaches

° Our nutritional needs are as different as our fingerprint. Bioindividuality rules
Personalization is key

● What are your thoughts & which of these would you like to kno

09/08/2026

🌈 There are endless ways to engage our children of any age in food prep & healthier eating. If you give the thought and take the time to do so, the dividends it pays is worth far more than even the best health insurance plan

If we don't spend the time & money on our children's wellness now, we and they will be forced to spend more time & money on their illness later. There are plenty of ideas at the end of the rainbow, aka my veggie loaded, bean rich, fruit filled functional food page

🫄 Our overall success as parents is not defined by what our children eat -- but it sure is nice when they choose on their own to eat the healthy way in which they were raised. All children will go through...
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👪 Is your family on the same health page? More than 1/3 of my functional medicine nutrition practice is with families and their children. Usually there is one family member who is the sickest, needing the most help. Consistently we notice that this person does better when other family members are on the same page. Conversely, when everyone is doing their own thing independently, this person struggles and takes longer to heal.

👦 Here's a recent patient experience of a 12-year-old boy ~ My greatest concern is my 12-year-old son and his well-being. He had several issues like allergic rhinitis, very low energy, eczema flare ups, and he got very nervous without apparent reason. He couldn't do any sports because of the tiredness, dizziness and headaches he felt most of the time. It has been 8 months working together with Karl... Nickolas' experience continues in comments

👦🫐👧 Veggie-loaded kids have better brains ~ Children who eat a better diet, packed with fruit and vegetables, have better mental health — according to new research from...
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A major study found that when processed foods are removed from childrens diets, ADHD symptoms dropped 53%. No meds. No therapy. Just food.
See yesterday's post about ADHA & Diet on my Profile page