I’m a wife, mother, grandmother, retired lifestyle nurse by day, aspiring nutritionist, hydroponic grower by night, and this is my website. I live in Washington State, have a great husband named Bill, and I like greens. (And gettin’ caught in the snow.)
I really did not know what healthy felt like until I lifted my own brain fog, fatigue and weight gain that had come on gradually…
As a western, US trained RN, I was taught that genes dictated our health destiny, and there is a pill for every ill. I practiced this way as an RN until my own health and my family’s health started to deteriorate.
Post children, I had fatigue, labile mood, anxiety, brain fog and most mornings I just did not even want to get out of bed. I would just want to crawl into bed and have a nap. I had a comprehensive battery of tests and had referrals to specialists but was told that everything was ‘normal’ and that my symptoms were to be expected for a busy, mom. I was finally diagnosed with genetic hyperlipidemia, high cholesterol.
But I just could not accept that this was ‘normal’. I started doing my own reading, research and discovered the power of foods as medicine and spend the next few years beginning to peel back the layers of my symptoms to get to the root cause.
I am absolutely passionate about lifestyle medicine. I believe that ‘food IS medicine’. Food can turn on and off genes (epigenetics) and that yes, although there is a pill for every ill, we should address the underlying issues rather than band-aiding over problems. I still believe that western medicine is fantastic and is life-saving, but an integrative approach is needed, especially when we are treating chronic diseases.
My husband was diagnosed with hypertension. With my help, he managed to obtain a normal blood pressure and greatly reduce his psoriasis at this writing.
I also have 4 sons. All were brought up on a whole food plant based diet with very little oil.
We are in charge of our own health destiny. Even if you are dealt a bad deck of genetic cards, you can still overcome the odds and live with wellness.
I chose not to continue my career as an allopathic RN when I moved to California, but instead to focus on something which I believe to be equally, if not more powerful – lifestyle changes to heal the body. The content of this page provides lectures that cemented the only way I have found to minimize or hopefully reverse the early heart disease I was headed for. Yes, I have delayed the onset of my disease by strictly following what Chef AJ has distilled from the great doctors of the new specialty Life Style Medicine.
Dr Kim Williams: “I don’t mind dying a premature death, I just don’t want it to be my fault.” Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and served as its president from 2015 to 2016. He is currently a trustee of the organization.
WELCOME and please browse.
My favorite other websites include:
https://nutritionfacts.org/ and http://www.chefajwebsite.com/index.html