Brenna’s Blog
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When You’re Too Tired to Keep Deciding What’s for Dinner
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A simpler way to feed people well when your brain is already full. Sometimes I feel that deciding what’s for…
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Borrow My Brain
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Why I started building the tools I wished already existed. A month after I finished my nutrition certification, I attended…
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Proper Malted Breakfast Muffins
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I loved Malt-O-Meal muffins as a kid. Not just eating them but making them. By six years old I could…
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Fall-Apart Beef Shank (Dutch Oven + Instant Pot Option)
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I’ve made this beef shank regularly of late. It’s one of those meals that feels slightly ambitious, yet requires very…
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Why Coffee Works for Some People (and Immune Herbs Don’t)
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There was a season of my life where I was taking a lot of herbs. Not recklessly. Intentionally. Thoughtfully. But…
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Why Your Friend Can Live on Energy Drinks and You Can’t
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On MTHFR, COMT, and Building a Resilient Terrain I have a habit of reading food labels like I’m trying to…
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When Ashwagandha Backfires (And Why That Doesn’t Mean It’s a Bad Herb)
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Last summer we went camping. Four kids. Smoke drifting through the trees. Spotty sleep. Electrolytes in the bag because I…
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Instant Pot Chicken Soup (The Staple I Somehow Never Posted)
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For someone who has run a food blog for the better part of eight years, it’s borderline ridiculous that I’ve…
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Stable Blood Sugar Changes Everything
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Why energy, mood, and hormones depend on it If there’s one foundation that quietly improves almost everything, it’s blood sugar…
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Introducing LabLens™: A Functional + Terrain-Based Way to Read Blood Chemistry
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For years, I sat with clients as a health coach and later as a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner whose lab work…