Hi, friends! I'm Liz.

I'm here sharing everything I know about real food, safer beauty, and healthy babies & families with you!

I'm a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP), a best-selling author, an award-winning podcaster, and – most importantly – a toddler mom.

(Translation: I write things, I record things, and I'm fully exhausted while doing it.)

At one time, I was confused about food, unhealthy, unhappy with my body, struggling with acne and whacked-out hormones, and wondering why all the diets, low-fat food, soy milk and CARDIO CARDIO CARDIO weren't making me the picture of health, beauty, and fertility.

Welp, turns out – we've been fed a LOT of lies about what it takes to be fundamentally healthy.

Once I uncovered all those lies, my life completely changed. Crazy diets and nonstop cardio? Done. Acne and a bucket of skin meds? Gone. Hormonal imbalance, horrible sleep, napping under my work desk, and hating my body every second of every day? No more.

And from there, I was able to start (and feed!) a healthy family. To me, there's nothing more priceless than that.

If I can do it, you can DEFINITELY do it.

My food philosophy is simple: just eat real freakin' food. No micro-managing, no agonizing. Whether you call the food I eat “clean,” Paleo, Primal, unprocessed, or just the food humans are meant to eat, it's all the same thing: real, healthy, perfect, delicious, WHOLE food.

To keep it simple: just eat all the amazing, unprocessed foods that have always been food. Nothing out of a box, a bag, and nothing synthesized in a lab. (ew.)

Eating real food means ditching nutrition dogma and processed gunk. It's a healthy, delicious, and life-changing shift.

It helped balance my hormones, stabilize my weight, clear my skin and prepare my body for a healthy pregnancy. And that's what I talk about here, in my book, on my podcast, in my skincare guide, and in my online courses (here and here).

I share plenty more fun, personal details from my life here on my website, too.

I'm married to my best friend, and we have an amazing little girl who keeps us bone-tired and blissfully happy. We've also had a rotating cast of dogs, cows, goats, chickens, guinea fowl, ducks, and a whole mess of other living things at our farmstead.

And because you know goat videos are breaking the internet these days, I share videos of my goats dancing on the hood of my car, trying to break in to my house, and practicing dismounts on the deck.

Check out a bit more about my homestead life in the video below!

(Yep, in the video, I said “set a spell.” I'm a regular Jed Clampett these days.)

Pictured below: me with my amazing husband and our original pooch, who was my first (giant) baby.

Bottom line: around here, we cut through the myths and get right to the truth – and we have fun while we do it. This is about getting healthy, happy, balancing hormones, clearing troubled skin, getting WELL, and loving life.

One thing that works against all that? Rigid, uncompromising judgment or pass/fail food ideals. No punishments, no falling off the wagon, no diet dogma bullshit here. Because THAT STUFF NEVER WORKS. I'm done with that, and I hope you are too.

Welcome to my family. I’m so glad you’re here!

If you're ready to jump in, feel free to explore the blog – including my recipes, videos and top posts.

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If you're ready for lots more, check out my Wall Street Journal best-seller Eat the Yolks and the Purely Primal Skincare Guide. You can also sign up for updates on my upcoming Baby Making and Beyond program.

Thanks for reading!

(and the rest of the gang!).

photo credits: Claire Ryser, Visionaire Studios Kansas City

by Puja Shah

Plant intelligence.

It sounds like a far fetched idea, but with the complex life they live (and give) it would be safe to ask, do plants have an intelligence that allows for feelings and senses?

If you have ever lived near crickets, you would know their melody of chirping right before it rains. Some naturalists theorize that this sound is what allows plants to open their breathing pores, (stomatas), on the underside of their leaves so that rain may enter.

But can plants actually hear sound?

Cleve Backster thought so. He’s the former CIA interrogation specialist in the 1960’s that connected polygraph sensors to plants and discovered that they reacted to harm (like cutting their leaves off) and even to harmful thoughts of humans in proximity to them.

Backster decided to attach his polygraph electrodes to the plant in his office, then watered the plant and see if the leaves responded. Finding that the plant had reacted to this, he decided to see what would happen if he threatened it, and formed in his mind the idea of lighting a match to the leaf where the electrodes were attached.

That’s when the unimaginable happened.

The plant didn’t even wait for him to light the match. It reacted to his thoughts and vibration of energy! Through further research, Baxter found that it was his intent, not just the thought, that brought about this reaction.

He also discovered that plants were aware of each other, mourned the death of anything living. Not only did they mourn, they actually had likes and dislikes. He found that they strongly disliked people who killed plants during scientific research, and extended their energy out to the people who had tended to them, even when those people were far way in either time or space.

He noted the beauty of plants being able to react in the present moment to events that took place many miles away.

So he said plants are psychic, but also since they can anticipate negative and positive events, including weather…they can be seen as prophetic.

How do these psychic and prophetic nature beings react?

Backster found that they just become catatonic. He termed the plants’ sensitivity to thoughts “primary perception,” and first published his findings from the experiments in The International Journal of Parapsychology. His work was inspired by the research of famous biologist Dr. Jagadish Chandra Bose, who had discovered that playing certain kinds of music in the area where plants grew caused them to grow faster.

Dr. Bose, invented an instrument named crescograph for his many experiments on plants. Dr. Bose showed that plants can feel in their own way. He wrote: “Suppose there is a lush green plant and its leaves are a sparkling green in the shining sunlight. We feel like pulling out a leaf to feel it. But we do not think of what goes on inside the plant. Maybe, we feel that the plant does not suffer like us. But the plant does suffer. In fact the pulsation of the plant stops where the leaf was plucked. In a short time the pulsation again begins at the spot, but this time very slowly. And then it completely stops. That spot is as good as dead for the plant.”

The plant has a nervous system.

Dr. Bose also discussed the ‘nervous mechanism’ of plants — the ability of plants to recognize and react to the individual who has committed a violent act, (especially towards a plant), in their presence.

Researchers from Michigan State University have also discovered that plants have a rudimentary nerve structure, which allows them to feel pain. According to the journal Plant Physiology, plants are capable of identifying danger, signaling that danger to other plants and marshaling defenses against perceived threats. Botanist Bill Williams of the Helvetica Institute noted, “plants not only seem to be aware and to feel pain, they can even communicate.”

This research had prompted the Swiss government to pass the first-ever Plant Bill of Rights. It concluded that plants have moral and legal protections, and Swiss citizens have to treat them appropriately.

Now with modern day equipment, plant physiologists are beginning to understand much more about plant movement. That there are even molecular and cellular reasons of the ability of plants to respond to touch.

https://projectyourself.com/blogs/news/science-proves-plants-are-psychic-and-prophetic

LAURA'S PERSONAL FOOT NOTE: 

Place a broccoli stalk in the refrigerator and it will 'keep' for days.  Why? Because it is still ALIVE. Awaiting death in the dark.

What if plants are sentient? Do they have less value than animals?  Should the world then, eat nothing?  Only drink water?  

(replace with the concept of only breathing air) 

What if water is sentient and the journey through the human body, or any body, is a toxic experience for the sentient water molecules.  

Is this cruelty?

OR

What if this world, this Earth, is designed to allow all thing that are edible, to be eaten? A Divine Plan too big for us to grasp...so we make it small enough to handle.

What if ALL is in harmony....distorted only by a child-like concept that we are capable of removing suffering.