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Quick version for anyone who just got a prescription. The researchers' own suggestion was a modest one: cutting back on ...
10/13/2026

Quick version for anyone who just got a prescription. The researchers' own suggestion was a modest one: cutting back on sweets during and after antibiotics might help. Nothing scarier than that, just a reasonable thing to do. And if your gut feels off after a course of antibiotics, you're not imagining it, and you're far from the only one.

How your gut looks a few weeks out has a lot to do with what you eat after the course ends. Everyday food choices are most of the answer, and the rest is a conversation with whoever prescribed it.

Dr. Katie and I see this all the time. Questions about your own situation? Comment SUPPORT to receive our online booking link for a discovery call!

Not medical advice. This is educational content based on our clinical experience at Snow Holistic Health.

Real question. You're on the road, trying to eat clean, and the only thing between you and home is a gas station. What a...
10/12/2026

Real question. You're on the road, trying to eat clean, and the only thing between you and home is a gas station. What are you grabbing? No wrong answers, we're nosy.

There are many versions of this story, and every one was missing the same thing: the people in that study already had mi...
10/09/2026

There are many versions of this story, and every one was missing the same thing: the people in that study already had mild cognitive impairment when it started. That is a completely different population than the hundreds of thousands of cognitively healthy adults in the UK Biobank studies, where glucosamine was associated with lower dementia risk. Same supplement, different context, opposite finding.

The researchers are not hiding that -- they actually explain it themselves. The mechanism the study points to involves disrupted sugar metabolism, and honestly, that part of the conversation is more useful than the glucosamine debate on its own. Blood sugar dysregulation showing up in the brain is not a new idea, and it is something we can actually look at through lab work before it becomes a problem worth worrying about.

If you are taking glucosamine and your joints feel better, do not make a unilateral decision based on one headline. Talk to whoever manages your care, and if metabolic health has never been part of that conversation, now is a reasonable time to bring it up. Drop any questions below!

Not medical advice. This is educational content based on our clinical experience at Snow Holistic Health.

10/08/2026

Rice comes up a lot in the clinic, so here's how Dr. Snow actually thinks about it. The general concern is that starchy carbs convert quickly to sugar, which matters if you're working on weight or blood sugar. His rule of thumb: if you're going to eat a starchy carb, make it occasional, maybe once a week, and pair it with something that slows things down. Fiber is doing real work here. A good veggie-loaded salad with a clean dressing, celery, things with actual fiber content, helps keep the overall calorie load in a more reasonable range as long as the dressing isn't carrying a ton of added fat. It's a practical framework, not perfection. Small choices at the grocery store add up over time, and knowing why you're making them is half the battle.

Not medical advice. This is educational content based on our clinical experience at Snow Holistic Health.

Most people hear 'fruit sugar' and figure it gets a pass because it came from something that grew in the ground. But you...
10/08/2026

Most people hear 'fruit sugar' and figure it gets a pass because it came from something that grew in the ground. But your body doesn't sort sugar by origin. It processes fructose the same way it processes the sugar in a candy bar, and when your blood sugar spikes, your body's response is to store what it can't immediately use as fat, and then send hunger signals asking for more. So you eat the fruit, you store some of it, and then you want more food shortly after. That cycle isn't a willpower problem, it's just physiology.

The juice version is worse because you've removed the fiber that at least slows absorption down. A glass of orange juice can carry the sugar of four or five oranges with nothing left to slow it down on the way in.

And here's something most people don't realize: the fruit you buy at the grocery store today isn't what fruit looked like a few hundred years ago. Growers have hybridized fruit trees over generations to produce larger, sweeter fruit that can survive shipping and weather. The goal was yield and shelf life, not your blood sugar. So 'natural' doesn't mean the same thing it once did when it's applied to a piece of fruit that was bred to be as sweet as possible.

None of this means fruit is off the table forever. It means context matters, portion matters, and 'natural' on a label or in a food's origin story isn't the same as a green light to eat as much as you want.

Drs. Eric and Katie Snow, Eat & Be Well, Chapter 5, The Role of Fruits and Veggies.

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Not medical advice. This is educational content based on our clinical experience at Snow Holistic Health.

Ghee gets a bad reputation because people hear "butter" and stop listening. But ghee is clarified butter, which means mo...
10/01/2026

Ghee gets a bad reputation because people hear "butter" and stop listening. But ghee is clarified butter, which means most of the dairy proteins have been removed in the process. That makes it easier on your digestive system and a reasonable option for people who react to regular dairy but still want a stable, whole-food cooking fat.

The grass-fed part matters because what the cow eats changes what ends up in the fat. If you want the benefit of a quality saturated fat from an animal source, the sourcing has to hold up, and that starts with how the animal was raised and fed. Look at the label and confirm it actually says grass-fed, not just "natural" or some other word that means nothing specific. And especially now that lab grown meat is available in the U.S., avoid labels with words like: cell-cultivated, cell-based, cultivated meat, or cultured meat.

Ghee is one of those foods that fell out of favor during the low-fat decades and is worth a second look now that we understand more about what fats actually do in the body.

Drs. Eric and Katie Snow, Eat & Be Well, Chapter 8, Good Fat and Bad Fat; The Real Story.

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Not medical advice. This is educational content based on our clinical experience at Snow Holistic Health.

09/30/2026

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Before recommending an SSRI, Dr. Snow looks at whether the body actually has what it needs to make serotonin on its own. 5HTP is the direct building block, the substrate, and when stress is chronically high, you burn through your neurotransmitters faster than you can replace them. A lot of people dealing with anxiety or low mood are sitting on a vitamin deficiency that nobody checked for. Neuro 5HTP+ gives the body those specific raw materials so it can do what it was already designed to do. That is where he starts, before anything else.

Talk to your provider about whether this makes sense for your situation, because that conversation belongs with someone who knows your full picture.

If you need guidance, you can call our office to schedule or you schedule a 15 minute phone conversation today! Comment CALL for the link to schedule!

Not medical advice. This is educational content based on our clinical experience at Snow Holistic Health.

Something I hear from women in their forties all the time: 'I used to have a cast-iron stomach and now everything bother...
09/29/2026

Something I hear from women in their forties all the time: 'I used to have a cast-iron stomach and now everything bothers me. What happened?' What happened is that the gut and the endocrine system are running on the same wiring, and when hormones start fluctuating, the gut gets the message too. A 2026 review out of Frontiers in Endocrinology put it plainly: s*x hormones have receptors throughout the GI tract, the central nervous system, and thyroid tissue. This is not a metaphor. The regulatory network is physical.

The part that gets women stuck is that the standard medical system splits the problem before it even looks at it. Gut symptoms go one direction, hormone symptoms go another, and you end up with two incomplete conversations instead of one complete picture.

Functionally, what I want women to know is that bloating, constipation, and sensitivity that showed up in your mid-forties is information. It is your body flagging a systems-level change, not evidence that your gut is broken beyond repair. Food is still the first place I start, and it still does more work than most people expect. But if you have cleaned up your diet and are still struggling, running gut and hormone labs at the same time, with someone reading them together, is usually the step that actually moves things.

If you have questions about what that kind of workup looks like, drop them below! And you can always call the office to schedule a 15-minute consultation call!

Not medical advice. This is educational content based on our clinical experience at Snow Holistic Health.

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09/24/2026

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Gluten does something in the body that most people don't fully appreciate until they actually remove it. It drives inflammation, and inflammation doesn't stay in one place. It shows up in your joints, your gut, your skin, your sinuses, places that seem completely unrelated to what you ate for breakfast.

The arthritis connection is a good example of this. Different types of arthritis have different triggers, but inflammation in the joints is almost always part of the picture. Gluten is one of the things that keeps that fire going, quietly, in the background, even when you feel like you've adapted to eating it.

Dr. Snow grew up dealing with this firsthand. Taking dairy out as a child made a real difference for him, and the same principle applies here: sometimes the thing causing the problem is so familiar that you stop noticing it. You don't know what it was costing you until it's gone.

That's worth paying attention to. Not as a permanent restriction you mourn, but as information about what your body was carrying.

Drs. Eric and Katie Snow, Eat & Be Well, Chapter 12, Glutens, Lectins & Phytates.

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Not medical advice. This is educational content based on our clinical experience at Snow Holistic Health.

09/23/2026

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Wild yam has been used for centuries, and there's a reason it keeps coming up in conversations about menopause support. It contains compounds that may help your body support its own natural hormone balance, which is worth paying attention to if hot flashes, mood shifts, or restless nights are making life harder right now. This isn't a replacement for working with someone who actually runs your labs and looks at what your hormones are doing, but it's a real food-based option worth knowing about.

Full video on the channel if you want more context on natural hormone support.

Talk to your provider about whether it makes sense for where you are. If you do not have a provider and need guidance on this, you can always call our office to schedule!

Not medical advice. This is educational content based on our clinical experience at Snow Holistic Health.

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