A Cup of Tea Can Save the World

Not only do you feel better drinking tea, you actually FEEL better! Let’s drink to that!

What Symptoms to Expect When You Begin a Healing Path

All About Food, Editor's Pick, The History of Healing, Dealing With SymptomsKaren ClicknerFebruary 21, 2020

If You Can't Tolerate Gluten, Try Einkorn

My patients are always asking me about gluten-free eating. One of my favorite recommendations are ancient grains which have not been hybridized or altered from their historical varieties. Einkorn is probably my ultimate favorite because of its great taste, fiber content and digestibility! But more than that, I use it as an essential part of some great comfort foods.

All About Food, Living A Balanced LifeKaren ClicknerJanuary 31, 2019

Solving Metabolic Syndrome Naturally

In my last article “Sugar is Killing Us” I discussed the results of the most recent studies into sugar dysregulation which includes Metabolic Syndrome, Type 2 Diabetes, hyper and hypoglycemia along with a host of secondary opportunistic conditions which develop over time when our blood sugar remains unregulated.

Now come the solutions!

All About Food, Dealing With SymptomsKaren ClicknerOctober 4, 2018

Sugar is Killing Us

Sugar dysregulation, known as Metabolic Syndrome or MetS, isn’t just about Metabolic Syndrome X, Type 2 diabetes and hypoglycemia. It actually includes a large group of insidious complications like gout, COPD, glaucoma, Bipolar Disorder, psoriasis, osteoporosis, GERD, PCOS, sleep apnea and erectile dysfunction. All of these things have been clinically shown (in very recent clinical studies) to trace their origins back to years of sugar dysregulation.

So why has this become the epidemic of our time? Basically there are three things that have become more and more of an issue over time and when you put them together you have the development of Metabolic Syndrome (MetS).

All About Food, How the Body Works, Living A Balanced LifeKaren ClicknerOctober 4, 2018

Can Food Treat Your Illness?

Food as therapy is a great thing but it can take weeks and months for the body to assimilate, create essential factors such as enzymes, new cells, hormones, and then initiate a cascade effect that ends in alleviating your symptoms.

All About Food, How the Body Works, Living A Balanced LifeKaren ClicknerFebruary 15, 2018Food As Medicine

Eating the RDA Way

How many people believe that the Recommended Daily Allowance of vitamins and minerals is the best guide to human health? Please raise your hand…

Bircher Muesli to the Rescue

All About Food, Living A Balanced Life, Editor's PickKaren ClicknerApril 25, 2016

Do I Really Have to Take This?

All About Food, How the Body Works, Living A Balanced Life, Natural TherapiesKaren ClicknerJanuary 30, 2014

Make It or Move It

Living A Balanced Life, All About Food, Women's Natural MedicineKaren ClicknerJanuary 30, 2014

Cardboard Nutrition

I'm back in Switzerland visiting my family and one of the very first things I notice is the difference in food. The taste, the quality, the very feeling of fullness that you get when you eat food here. Back home I buy organic for most things, but I have to tell you that I had forgotten what onions REALLY smell like until I was here in Switzerland.

Are You on the Verge of the Insulin Cliff?

The Herb Garden, How the Body Works, Living A Balanced Life, All About Food, Dealing With SymptomsKaren ClicknerJune 6, 2013

Now come the solutions!

The Herbal Advisor Magazine is the research and information by Certified Clinical Herbalist Karen S. Clickner, with 35 years of experience through her clinical history in Massachusetts.