Dr. Shawn's Blog

A new paper published in NPJ Science of Food examined how kimchi consumption affects the immune system.   What the researchers did What they found Kimchi consumption: That last point is huge. This was not an “immune stimulant” effect. The study suggests a more sophisticated “immune training” or “immune calibration” effect – what I typically

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and there has never been a more important time to rethink how we approach mental wellness. For decades, we’ve been taught to think about mental health as something that happens only in the brain. But emerging science around the microbiome-gut-brain-axis is changing everything we thought we knew about mood,

April is Stress Awareness Month, and there’s no better time to take control of your mental fitness, build resilience, and elevate how you feel, from the inside out. Remember: stress isn’t just a mindset issue – it’s a whole-body issue, driven by your Gut-Heart-Brain Axis and how well those systems are communicating.  To support you this month, we’ve

This article was just published in Vitality Digest Magazine (Feb 2026 edition). They asked me to write an article about the link between gut health and mental well-being, and you can see the full issue at the links below (but you need to pay for those – so I am also pasting the text of

For years, gut health marketing focused on who lives in your microbiome (which specific bacteria where there). Today, the more interesting question is what they’re doing. And few microbes work harder – or smarter – than Akkermansia muciniphila. At 3 Waves Wellness, we included a specific strain* of Akkermansia (AKK001) in our award-winning Zenith for

Had a nice 15-min discussion about natural ways to improve “Mental Fitness” on the Digital Trailblazers Health & Wellness Podcast: Apple  = https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/health-and-wellness-trailblazers/id1734826884?i=1000745306048 Spotify  = https://open.spotify.com/episode/2pd1AStupLYi05H5EwzihW?si=lMRtJr4zSPGp_MplFrz_uQ