by Julie Matthews, MS | Nov 16, 2022 | All Posts
Genetics can be used to help us personalize diet through the study of nutrigenetics and metabolomics. I found something I wanted to share with you. It is so compelling that I decided to make it a new video as a resource for practitioners. It comes from a study by Jill...
by Julie Matthews, MS | Nov 7, 2022 | All Posts
Personalized Nutrition Choices that Improve Health As with many nutrients, choline intake is bioindividual. Because of the important uses of choline including gene expression, knowing that some clients may need more choline than others (and which clients) is very...
by Julie Matthews, MS | Jun 24, 2022 | All Posts
Diet influences the intestinal tract, gut microbiome, and brain. And personalized nutrition, or BioIndividual Nutrition®, can have a profound impact on the mood, learning, and behavior (i.e. the brain) of our clients and patients. In fact, clinicians in my...
by Julie Matthews, MS | Jun 1, 2022 | All Posts
Sulforaphane, the active compound from broccoli sprouts, has many powerful health benefits. Research shows that it is a potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory substance. It can address neuroinflammation, is neuroprotective, and is even helpful for autism....
by Julie Matthews, MS | Jan 20, 2022 | All Posts
by Julie Matthews, MS | Jan 3, 2022 | All Posts, BioIndividual Nutrition Articles
Gastrointestinal Disorders Prevalence If you’re a nutrition or health practitioner, you’ve certainly had your fair share of clients with a gastrointestinal disorder or symptoms. I’m certain of that. That’s because digestive disorders are incredibly common. They...
by Julie Matthews, MS | Oct 28, 2021 | All Posts, BioIndividual Nutrition Articles
How Our Genes vs. Microbiome Affect Blood Sugar and Foods We Tolerate The primary goal of personalized nutrition is to create a diet that best meets the needs of an individual. Each person has a different response to specific types of food, as a great diet for one...
by Julie Matthews, MS | Oct 18, 2021 | All Posts
When to Add Camel Milk toa Personalized Nutrition Plan Camel milk is a wonderful healing food. As a Certified Nutrition Consultant, I have been recommending it to my clients with autism (and practitioners in my BioIndividual Nutrition Training) for many years. But...
by Julie Matthews, MS | Oct 5, 2021 | All Posts
Starting on a gluten-free and casein-free (GFCF) diet for your clients can result in profound improvements. Many times, that starts with defining for my clients what these things are and in a way that is digestible (see what I did there? ;-)) Gluten refers to the...
by Julie Matthews, MS | Sep 17, 2021 | All Posts, BioIndividual Nutrition Articles
In the past, oxalate research was relegated to kidney-related disorders. Now much more is known. Whether your interest is autism, cancer, chronic pain, autoimmunity, or generalized inflammation, understanding the role dietary oxalates can play is critical for your...
by Julie Matthews, MS | Sep 3, 2021 | All Posts, BioIndividual Nutrition Articles
The right bioindividual nutrition plan for your client can bring about profound improvement and benefit. In this article, I want to focus on some diets that have received a lot of attention in the news and nutrition community: the ketogenic diet and intermittent...
by Julie Matthews, MS | Jul 19, 2021 | All Posts, Autism & Pediatric Articles
In my years of helping children with autism, I have heard many times (erroneously) that there is no science behind diet for autism, or the gluten-free casein-free diet (GFCF diet) for autism. This is simply not true. There is a great deal of research illustrating why...
by Julie Matthews, MS | May 27, 2021 | BioIndividual Nutrition Articles
Nutritional genomics is a vital component of personalized nutrition, and valuable to understand for the greatest success in your nutrition practice. Nutritional genomics is a term that encompasses the interaction of genes and nutrients, and how this...
by Julie Matthews, MS | Feb 1, 2021 | All Posts
Aggression is a difficult and sometimes devastating symptom that occurs in children for varied reasons—some known and some unknown. The correlation between food and behavior intrigued me 20 years ago, and sparked my career as a nutrition researcher and clinician. And...
by Julie Matthews, MS | Dec 16, 2020 | All Posts
Most thriving nutrition practitioners have a few “secret tools” and strategies that get them results, even for some of the most “difficult cases.” Throughout my 18+ years as a nutrition professional working with complex neurological and...
by Julie Matthews, MS | Dec 10, 2020 | All Posts
How would you like it if your clients described you as a “life-changing genius?” I believe that most of us become nutrition professionals to help change lives. So today, I’d like to share how BioIndividual Nutrition is helping practitioners like you do just that. The...
by Julie Matthews, MS | Oct 23, 2020 | All Posts
Ruminating thoughts, worry, fears, OCD or obsessive tendencies or thoughts, PMS, sleep issues, anger, rage… Do you or a loved one experience these symptoms? How about, butterflies in your stomach, physical tension in your muscles, pain… or self-medicating with...
by Julie Matthews, MS | Sep 22, 2020 | All Posts
Do you have clients who are experiencing regressions right now? Inflammatory response going haywire, despite their usual dietary patterns? Maybe you work with autism families and they are reporting that their children seem to be going through a yeast flare despite...
by Julie Matthews, MS | Jul 10, 2020 | All Posts
For our clients and patients, changing diet requires time, energy, and money. When they’re not well, there’s no time to waste on approaches that are not helpful. So if your recommendations are “wrong,” they may lose confidence in you as a professional. I believe that...
by Julie Matthews, MS | Feb 6, 2020 | All Posts
Oxalates are finally getting their due! When I started working with the low oxalate diet 15 years ago, no one was talking about oxalates at all (outside of kidney stones). But I’m noticing a big awareness of oxalate in recent months which I am very excited about. If...
