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How to Extend the Life of Your Milk with Yogurt: Gut-Healthy Fermentation Tips for Nourishing Every Spoonful

Transforming milk into yogurt isn’t just a clever way to reduce waste—it’s a nutrient-smart, digestion-friendly upgrade that extends shelf life while enriching your gut health. Through the natural magic of fermentation, yogurt gains probiotic power, becomes easier to digest, and holds onto essential nutrients like protein, calcium, and B vitamins. For women navigating gut shifts, fatigue, or hormone changes, these small tweaks add up to big support.

In this blog, you’ll learn how homemade can stretch your dairy’s freshness by up to 3–4 weeks, improve nutrient absorption, and even become a star ingredient in savory dressings, dips, and healing meals. We also touch on what happens when you freeze dairy—and how to minimise nutrient loss.

This isn’t just about shelf life. It’s about living a well-fed, well-nourished life—intuitively and intentionally.

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How to Prepare Your Body for Intermittent Fasting: A Nourishing, Gender-Aware, and Holistic Approach

Preparing your body for an intermittent fast can dramatically improve your results—physically, mentally, and emotionally. In this guide, I explore how to make fasting a truly supportive practice rather than an added stressor to your already busy biology. Whether you lean toward a protein-and-fat strategy or a plant-based, cleansing lead-in.

You’ll also discover how gender plays a role in metabolic responses, why hydration and adaptogenic herbs are non-negotiables, and how choosing the right prep method protects your nervous system and enhances detoxification. This is fasting for real women—with real lives, real bodies, and real goals.

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Lacto-Fermenting 🥕

For Lacto-fermentation, firm vegetables, such as beets and turnips, are best. I’ve found the softer vegetables, such as tomatoes and cucumbers, can be more challenging.

Warning ⚠, when fermented, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and other "gassy" foods produce a strong odor, it's best to blend them with other vegetables to avoid this perfuming of your kitchen 😉

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I Can't Stop Raving About Fermented Foods!

Eating probiotic strains that thrive in fermented foods and beverages can boost your overall intestinal and respiratory health and even slash your risk for chronic conditions like type 2 diabetes and heart disease! It’s all connected to taming inflammation

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Have You got the Guts to be Healthy?

There is now no doubt that the number of diseases in the Western world is growing at an ever-increasing rate. It seems as though everyone has something that needs attention or conditions that are not improving. With disease and obesity ever increasing in our world, we have to stop and ask the question, ‘What are we doing that is not working?’

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