Zoe breakfast muffins and kit, photo by author

Learning Which Foods Are Best For Me

The Zoe Nutrition kit and wellness of the future

Amy Sterling Casil
10 min readFeb 19, 2023

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A few weeks ago, I had heard the term “Type 3 diabetes” for the first time from one of our nature walk partners. This is a term that many have used to describe Alzheimer’s disease, because there is such a close connection between Type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease.

I have not written about what we went through when my grandmother was deteriorating from Alzheimer’s disease, a process that took over 20 years. We were blessed that she was at last able to locate and live in a safe and supportive environment at Camelot Care, which was one of the first Alzheimer’s-specific long term care homes in California. There is quite a story about Camelot Care and how it came to be — but my point here is, I don’t want Alzheimer’s and I don’t want my daughter to have to go through the years of agonizing worry, 24–7 crises, and overwhelming grief that I did with Nana.

Dysbiosis: The Word of The Day

As I’ve written many times before, our Western medicine has been dominated by pharmacology (pills, injections), and most physicians have one hour or less of nutrition education in medical school. The resistance toward acknowledging the massive part that diet plays in health is mind-boggling. 80% of the grocery store and 100%…

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Amy Sterling Casil

Over 500 million views and 5 million published words, top writer in health and social media. Author of 50 books, former exec, Nebula nominee.