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Exploring the Impact of Micronutrients on Well-Being

Micronutrients, or the vitamins and minerals your body needs, typically work like a team. To illustrate this point, let’s look at some collaborative examples you…

Can Probiotics Help to Improve Gut Health?

If you want to improve gut health, or even optimize your overall health, you’ve probably seen a thing or two about probiotics. An estimated 25%…

Guide to understanding small intestinal bacterial overgrowth

What is SIBO? Your Simple Guide to Understanding and Treating Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO)

Have you ever found yourself grappling with the discomfort of abdominal distension, bloating, or cramping, seemingly unaffected by the type of food you consume? If…

Can Functional Lab Testing Discover Your Root Cause?

Functional lab testing helps us find the ROOT cause of your health concerns. You may have heard our team use the phrase, “test, don’t guess!”…

Back to School with RSN!

It’s that time of year again: back to school! The grocery stores are full of single serving snack bags with bright and fluorescent colors abound…

A Glance at Micronutrients

Micronutrients include the multitude of vitamins and minerals that make up a minuscule part of our diets. Small, but mighty, we need micronutrients for a…

What are Macronutrients?

Protein, fat, and carbohydrates are the three building blocks of our diet. Together, they form the major macronutrients. But what exactly are they? Macronutrients are…

RSN Approved Mocktails

Mocktails are a fun way to spice up your daily water intake. But what exactly are they? At Rachel Scheer Nutrition, we like to believe…

Questions on Nutrition? Read this!

Our team at Rachel Scheer Nutrition includes Registered Dietitian Nutritionists who are experts in the field of functional medicine. Being experts, we receive questions about…

Dive into Detoxification

What comes to mind when you hear the word “detox”? Juice cleanses, calorie restrictive diets, detoxification teas? The truth is detoxification is one of our…

What Does “Leaky Gut” Really Mean?

What does “leaky gut” mean? First, let’s take a look at what a healthy gut lining is supposed to look like. The intestinal lining of…

What’s the Gut Have to Do With It?

Your gut microbiome may have more to do with your hormones, muscles, skin, and even mental health than you realize. This small, but mighty, system…

How to Optimize Sleep

A good night’s sleep means everything! It means starting your day feeling focused, energized, and fresh. But how you can you bio-hack your way to…

Common Misconceptions of Functional Medicine

Functional medicine may sound trendy, but despite many misconceptions, it is a holistic and integrative way to analyze and help heal the body. So, how…