Category Archives: Superfoods

7 Reasons Why You Should Eat Schizandra Berries

“What the heck is a schizandra berry?”

Great question. Besides being one of my favorite words of all time, schizandra is is also an incredibly powerful tonic, or daily maintenance herb. I’ve personally been using it more regularly as of late and I’m pretty darn excited about the gentle cleansing and beautifying effects I’ve been noticing.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with this magical ancient fruit, this post will give you a quick rundown of why it’s such an important superfood/superherb to incorporate into your diet and will also give you two very easy and fun ways to painlessly incorporate it into your daily routine if you choose to do so. Continue reading

3 Incredible Skin Clearing Herbs

The reason I originally became interested in natural foods and holistic nutrition was to clear up my skin. I used to have terrible skin and for the longest time I had no clue that it was directly related to what I was eating. After I changed my diet and saw the dramatic improvement in my skin, I was curious what other things my diet was affecting. (The answer, it turns out, was everything).

I’ll get into the nitty gritty of my diet recommendations for clear skin in a future blog post. For right now, here are a few specific foods and herbs you can add into your diet right now that have extraordinary skin clearing properties (big shout out to Mother Nature! Woop woop!). Continue reading