"Your brain...weighs three pounds and has one hundred thousand miles of blood vessels, contains more connections than there are stars in the Milky Way, is the fattest organ in your body, could be suffering this very minute without your having a clue." Dr. David Perlmutter, Grain Brain. 

Leaky gut. Have you heard this term before? If you are in the conventional medical world, maybe you have heard the term "intestinal permeability." Leaky gut is a buzz term right now and for good reason! There are also a lot of misconceptions about leaky gut floating around on the internet. Simply put, leaky gut is a condition in which the lining of the gastrointestinal tract, specifically the small intestine, is damaged, or "leaking" substances (some toxic and some nontoxic) into the body. Let me get into the basic science of leaky gut. 

Disclaimer: This is an over simplified explanation of leaky gut. If you are interested in more in depth information, I can provide that for you,

Every one of us is on a journey, but none of us have reached our destination. I have wanted to write a blog for some time now, but I felt like I had to have everything “figured out” before I published the actual site. I thought, “I need to have a portfolio of beautiful food pictures, cooking tutorials, and information about popular nutrition topics. Well, that task seemed a bit daunting, so I continued to put the idea of blogging on the back burner. I realized tonight that I will never have it all figured out, and I would love for each of you reading this blog to be apart of the journey. 

So, let me start off by giving you a background as to why I even wanted to start blogging. I mean, there are a ton of “real food,” “health food,” “paleo,” “fitfood” blogge