Humans are not separate from nature, but part of it. As a society, we urgently need to relearn this concept, for the sake of our health. Our survival depends on the natural environment. By this I mean intact ecosystems......

The Nourish Balance Thrive podcast is designed to help you perform better. Christopher Kelly, your host, is co-founder of Nourish Balance Thrive, an online clinic using advanced biochemical testing to optimize performance in athletes. On the podcast,...

Workouts are work. There’s no way around that. Whenever you move matter through space and time, whether you’re displacing your own body weight or a barbell or a kettle bell, you’re doing work. It’s just physics. But there’s another meaning of “work”:...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affects 1.3 percent of U.S. adults, or more than 3 million people (1). On a basic level, in IBD the immune system targets food, bacteria, or other substances in the GI tract as foreign invaders, resulting in chronic i...

What was the problem? As a result of my career and my love of weight training, I’m usually pretty beat up most of the time. In what way did this impact your life? Although I still managed to keep up with a very intense training schedule, I was always...

We have recently discussed the array of benefits provided by sun exposure.  Today, we speak with researcher Dr. Marianne Berwick who authored one of my favorite papers detailing the health benefits of sun exposure.  She also provides some simple guid...

Trudy knew, deep inside, that medications couldn’t bring her where she needed to go. But what she didn’t know was that she had options. From the age of 19, she was medicated with multiple classes of psychotropics, hospitalized repeatedly, including o...

The world around us today is full of danger… but maybe not in the way you would expect. Unless you’re already paying attention, you might not even realize all the dangers that lurk, even in your own home. If you have been reading the blog, you probab...

To date there are 16 paleo diet studies (with over 20 published papers), 14 on the classic paleo, and 2 using the stricter auto-immune paleo (AIP) diet. Here is a link to blog posts on the AIP for multiple sclerosis and inflammatory bowel disease. Th...

If you’ve ever gotten a sunburn, then you know just how important a good, safe sunscreen can be. The problem is that not all sunscreens are created equal, and the consensus among scientists is that sunscreen alone will not prevent certain skin cancer...