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Apr 29, 2022

What is Precision Nutrition?

You are what you eat, but who you are can also affect how your body uses what you eat. General recommendations, as we’ve been accustomed to, are made for populations of people, but the future of nutrition in medicine may look more like putting a puzzle together. Research is showing that there can be significant… 

Apr 29, 2022

Have you heard of Med Instead of Meds?

It’s easy for patients to get overwhelmed as they make grocery selections, but it’s just as easy to commit to a few specific areas of evidence-based dietary change that have demonstrated improvements in chronic disease.  The Mediterranean Diet is one of the best studied nutritional approaches and easiest for lifestyle adaptation.1 A few tenets of the… 

Jul 28, 2020

PhytoRx Launches

On July 14, the first patient at HealthReach Community Clinic in Mooresville, NC was handed a PhytoRx, a prescription for fruits and vegetables that contain specific health-promoting compounds. The prescription lasts for 3 months and will be filled at Feed NC, a food distribution center in Mooresville. In addition, the patient will receive coaching on… 

Sep 10, 2019

Carotenoid Screenings

“Would you like to scan your hand?” It’s an engaging question. Within a few seconds, a small lab instrument uses Raman spectroscopy to scan the palm of the hand, measuring the skin carotenoid score. The skin carotenoid score is a non-invasive biomarker that can indicate the amount of fruits and vegetables consumed. (If you’d like… 

Jun 15, 2019

Festival Fun for Phytomedicine

We took the Phytomedicine message on the road to the NC Blueberry Festival in Burgaw, NC. Folks who visited our tent were happy to receive a paper fan to cool off on a typically warm Eastern NC Saturday in June. The fan, shaped and printed to look like a giant blueberry, included phyto-facts about blueberries…