I am the mother of seven beautiful daughters and the wife of one amazing photographer. I am a painter and a writer, and enjoy spending time out doors with my family. In 2009, after completing the best marathon of my life, I was stricken with an unexplained illness that kept me in the hospital for much of the next year and a half. I was eventually diagnosed with Lupus, Sjogrens Syndrome and...
I live in the Des Moines area. I'm a nutrition communicator, and run a blog called Balanced Immune Health.com. The blog is about new findings on immune health, and how immune balance, rather than "boost" is a key to overall long term health. Immune balance means the human immune system, when properly in sync, does not overreact or underreact to invading pathogens that enter the body. A...