Diets – Elizma Lambert

Why Do Probiotics Make My Histamine Symptoms Worse?

Histamine intolerance is usually discussed as two things: the histamine in your food, and the histamine your own mast cells release. There is a third source, and it accounts for…

Elizma LambertOctober 30, 2026

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Why Does Iron Make Me Feel Worse, Not Better?

Low ferritin with a normal blood count is one of the most common findings in people with unexplained fatigue, and iron is the obvious answer. When it makes someone feel…

Elizma LambertOctober 27, 2026

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Why Do My Histamine Symptoms Follow My Cycle?

If your headaches, hives, anxiety, bloating or insomnia arrive at the same two points every month, that timing is the most useful diagnostic information you have. It points at histamine,…

Elizma LambertOctober 27, 2026

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Why Strict Anti-Candida Diets Can Backfire

Cutting sugar when you have a yeast overgrowth is reasonable. Cutting almost everything is where it stops working, and the reason sits in the organism's biochemistry. Candida is not dependent on…

Elizma LambertOctober 15, 2026

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Why Polyphenols Work Despite ‘Poor Bioavailability’

Polyphenols — the compounds in colourful plants, tea, coffee, berries, olive oil and cacao — are often dismissed as having "poor bioavailability," meaning very little of them reaches your bloodstream…

Elizma LambertOctober 11, 2026

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Fat Adaptation: Why It Takes Longer Than Two Weeks

Getting into ketosis takes a few days. Becoming genuinely "fat adapted" — where your body efficiently burns fat as its main fuel — takes much longer, usually somewhere between four…

Elizma LambertOctober 9, 2026

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Raw vs Cooked: The Calories You Actually Absorb

The calories you actually absorb from a food can change depending on whether it's raw or cooked — even though the number on a label stays the same. Cooking breaks…

Elizma LambertOctober 3, 2026

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Which Foods Contain Fructans, Gluten, or Both?

Gluten and fructans are different things that live in mostly the same foods. Gluten is a protein. Fructans are a chain of fructose molecules — a carbohydrate — and they…

Elizma LambertAugust 9, 2026

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5 Ways to Change Your Genetic Destiny with Nutrigenomics

An article written by Elizma for Seeking Health... Your genome, which includes all your genetic material or DNA, does play an essential role in who you are. It can…

Elizma LambertApril 27, 2022

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Can Gut Bacteria and Food Preservatives Affect Autism?

Propionic acid is a short-chain fatty acid that comes from two places: it's produced by bacteria fermenting undigested carbohydrate in the gut, and it's added to processed food as a…

Elizma LambertJuly 26, 2021

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Fasting and How it Affects Hormone Levels

Most of the side effects people notice when they start fasting — headaches, cramps, brain fog, low energy, reduced libido — come from two things: the sodium and fluid your…

Elizma LambertJuly 26, 2021

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ATP Project #261 – Macro Talk: Calories In Vs Calories Out

In today’s episode of the ATP Project, Matt, Steve, and Elizma breakdown the energy exchange of food. What goes in vs what comes out, the age-old discussion around calories in…

Elizma LambertMay 19, 2021

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ATP Project #288 – Fundamentals of Fat Loss

In today’s episode of the ATP Project, Matt, Steve, and Elizma re-visit ‘Fat Loss’ and we say that because the very first episode of the ATP project covered the fundamentals…

Elizma LambertMay 17, 2021

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ATP Project #293 – Interview with Marty Kendall

In today’s episode of the ATP Project, Nicole and Elizma interview Marty Kendall – an engineer turned nutrition nerd. Marty, for most, comes from a very perplexing background in that…

Elizma LambertMay 17, 2021

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ATP Project #289 – Mind-Bending Macros

In today’s episode of the ATP Project Matt, Steve and Elizma combine data on the “grey realm” of macronutrient data. The questions around areas such as amino acids and their…

Elizma LambertMay 17, 2021

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Can a DNA Test Tell You Your Biological Age?

Your chronological age is just the candles on the cake. Your biological age — how old your body actually is at the cellular level — can be higher or lower,…

Elizma LambertDecember 5, 2019

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METHYLATION – Food For Genetic Expression

When we address biochemical processes such as methylation we should think more than just supplements. Food after all is our medicine and should be considered just as important, if not…

Elizma LambertJune 27, 2019

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ATP Project Ep 209 – Fasted Cardio with Elizma Lambert

In this episode of the ATP Project, Matt, Steve, and Elizma chat about intermittent fasting for weight loss & fasted cardio. What can offset a fast, what the definition of…

Elizma LambertMay 24, 2019

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Phenol Sensitivity: Symptoms, Foods and What Causes It

If colourful fruit, spices, herbal medicines or brightly coloured drinks reliably make you or your child worse, the problem is usually not the food. It is the pathway that clears…

Elizma LambertMay 21, 2019

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Overall Health Benefits Of The Ketogenic Diet

There is never a one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to diets or weight loss. They all have their pro's and con's which very much depends on the individual person and…

Elizma LambertMay 17, 2019

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Common Pitfalls in Ketogenic Diets

There is nothing more frustrating when you've committed yourself to a better way of eating, set goals, and chart your progress just to find out that you are not making…

Elizma LambertMay 17, 2019

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How You Can Manipulate Peptides For Successful Weight Loss

Weight Loss - AMPK, Insulin and MAPK For a long time the secret to weight loss has been advocated as 'calories in' versus 'calories out'. Well, I'm here to…

Elizma LambertMay 14, 2019

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Peptides and Weight Loss – Focus on Leptin

How Peptide Imbalances Could Be Making You Fat Overweight, Craving carbohydrates, Always feeling hungry and never feeling satisfied after eating, Suffering from immune problems such as asthma, eczema, allergies,…

Elizma LambertMay 14, 2019

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Elizma Lambert – Organic Acid Testing Episode 97

World authority on Organic Acid Testing, Elizma Lambert joins me today and we talk about the value of Organic Acid Testing and what you can learn from having yours done.…

ELApril 29, 2019

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Sulfur Intolerance Symptoms: Three Causes, Not One

If you react to garlic, onions, eggs, cruciferous vegetables or bone broth, the usual conclusion is that you have too much sulfur in your body and should eat less of…

Elizma LambertMarch 6, 2019

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The Anti-Inflammatory Diet

An anti-inflammatory diet needs to form the basis of any treatment plan in chronic disease. All disease is associated with some degree of inflammation. Inflammation occurs when the immune system is…

Elizma LambertSeptember 28, 2017

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Fast your way to Good Health

Research into fasting is getting more attention for a variety of disorder including auto-immune disease, hormone regulation, weight loss, cardiovascular disease and many more. It is important to note that…

Elizma LambertSeptember 28, 2017

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Ketogenic Diet Done Correctly

The Ketogenic or Keto-Adaptive Diet can be useful for many health conditions due its role in reducing inflammatory factors and Advanced Glycation Endproducts or AGEs formation, producing ketones which have…

Elizma LambertSeptember 20, 2017