Metabolic Minute: 5 Ways to Help Your Body Detox From Environmental Toxins

https://youtu.be/4uypWwVgVlA There are over 850,000 chemicals in the environment that we may come into contact with in our modern lives. From air pollutants, cleaning products, pesticides, plastics, food, personal products, they are in escapable. Our bodies are working 24/7 to help capture and release these toxins before they cause damage cells, tissues, and organs. It […]

Metabolic Minute: Managing Your Allergies

In this week’s Metabolic Minutetm we’re taking a look at seasonal allergies and how you can build up your internal defenses in order to become more resilient against environmental triggers like dust, weed, grass and other allergens. Your gut actually plays a key role in your allergy sensitivity. There is a mucosal barrier in your […]

CBSN Los Angeles: How to Improve Seasonal Allergies

Jim gives us insight on why allergies have gotten more intense over the last ten years for people.  Warmer weather due to climate change plays a role, but so does the fact that many people are under chronic stress and not getting enough sleep. This affects their immune system and makes them more susceptible allergens.  […]

ABC7 News: Eat, Move, Chill for Better Gut Health

Jim joins Melanie Hastings from ABC7 to share some insight on how to keep your immune system strong and the “quarantine 15” away.  Did you know that 70-80% of your immune system is in your gut! That’s why it’s imperative to eat well and keep it healthy with fiber and probiotics.  Tips for a healthy […]

Urban Health Beat 2.0 Podcast

Jim sits down with Urban Health Beat  2.0 to discuss how we can take small steps daily to be more proactive with our health.  Learn more about Jim first discovered his passion for helping people through integrative and lifestyle medicine more than 40 years ago.  In this episode Jim talks about  “meta-flammation” and “infla-aging” and […]

KNLB 91.1: Using Food To Strengthen Your Immune Health

Sometimes it take a crisis for us to take a good hard look at our habits. COVID19 is an opportunity to make a commitment to taking better care of ourselves. In this interview Jim shares why a clean diet is so critical to your immune system and other lifestyle changes you can make at this […]

RadioMD: Keeping Your Gut and Your Immune System Healthy in a Pandemic

James Lavalle sit down to discuss where to put your focus in order to stay healthy during a pandemic. He shares why the gut is so instrumental in the immune system and the best ways to keep it functioning optimally through certain healthy habits. He also shares which habits are critical that we break.  Catch […]