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Tender wild salmon and sweet potato come together with fresh herbs, lime, and simple seasonings in these easy-to-make salmon cakes. A cool, creamy lime sauce adds a bright finish, while roasted asparagus rounds out the meal. Servings: 4 (2 salmon cakes per serving) Ingredients (organic/biodynamic) Salmon Cakes 1 lb. wild salmon, cooked and flaked 1 medium sweet potato, baked and …

The school-year routine touches more than one generation. A grandparent picking up carpool duty a few mornings a week, a parent packing lunches and managing homework schedules, and a child adjusting to a new classroom are all navigating the same season, each with a different body doing different work. Nutrient needs shift across a lifetime, and while back-to-school planning tends …

Somewhere between the school supply list and the first day of class, most parents make a handful of decisions about their child’s nutrition based on things they’ve simply always believed to be true. Some of these ideas came from a pediatrician years ago. Some came from a well-meaning relative. Some just seem like common sense, repeated so often that no …

Somewhere around the second week of school, the first cough moves down the hallway. Classroom settings bring exposure to a greater number of people in confined spaces, and germs try to find new hosts. Children’s immune systems go on high alert and begin responding to these new threats. Vitamin D3 is a fat-soluble nutrient best known for supporting bone health, …

Summer changes the rhythm of daily life, and digestion often changes right along with it. Meals are often eaten later, schedules become less predictable, and familiar routines give way to vacations, barbecues, picnics, and long evenings outdoors. These seasonal shifts can influence digestive comfort from day to day. Many people notice their appetite changes during hot weather and naturally adjust …

Cool, tart, and naturally sweet, this Pear, Lime & Mint Granita is a refreshing way to enjoy a lighter summer treat. Made with ripe pears, fresh lime, mint, and a few drops of PERQUE DigestivAide™ Herbal Bitters, it puts a flavorful seasonal spin on the centuries-old tradition of bitters before meals. Serve it as a light starter before a summer …

Every system in the body has a preferred fuel. The brain runs on glucose. The heart favors fatty acids. The gut, one of the body’s most metabolically active tissues relative to its size, relies on amino acids, particularly glutamine, as its primary fuel source. The cells lining the small intestine, known as enterocytes, replace themselves every three to five days, …

There are five fundamental taste categories the human palate is designed to recognize: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and the more recently added “umami,” the savory, deeply satisfying quality found in aged cheeses, fermented foods, and slow-cooked broths. Of these five, bitter is the only one that has been systematically and almost entirely removed from the modern Western diet. Food manufacturers …

For millions of people, a proton pump inhibitor (PPI; a common class of medication used to treat heartburn and acid reflux) has quietly become part of the daily routine. It sits right alongside the morning vitamins and coffee, taken without much thought, often for years on end. What started as a short-term fix at some point became permanent. The prescription …

Summer has a reputation for ease. Longer days, warmer air, the pull to be outside more. But underneath that easy feeling, the body is quietly managing more than it does the rest of the year. Sun, heat, activity, travel, all of it adds up. And vitamin C is one of the nutrients working hardest to keep pace, season after season, …