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Non-Dairy Milk Kefir FAQs

By Donna Schwenk / January 11, 2010

Frequently Asked Questions About Non-Dairy Milk Kefir Why is my non-dairy kefir is separating into whey and curds? This is actually normal for non-dairy kefir. Since most nut milks are…

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Starter Cultures ~ The Science Experiment

By Donna Schwenk / August 13, 2016

So, let’s talk about starter cultures! I would like to clear up some confusion involving starter cultures and ratios. In my first book, Cultured Food For Life, the recipe for kefir called for 1 cup of milk to 1 tablespoon of kefir grains. […]

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Asthma and Fermented Foods

By Donna Schwenk / January 27, 2024

One of the first friends I ever told about cultured foods had a little boy with asthma. Making and drinking a kefir smoothie every day allowed him to get off his asthma inhaler and live a normal life. I was quite surprised and thrilled that it worked so rapidly. He had been taking kefir quite regularly and stopped needing his inhaler. […]

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Fermentation Belt

By Donna Schwenk / January 19, 2024

Product Description   Check out my new Dial-Thermometer Kombucha Heating Belt to brew kombucha! It can also work for Kefir if your home is really cold. This kombucha heating mat…

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A Cold You Can Beat After A Holiday Treat

By Donna Schwenk / November 11, 2023

For many years, and way before I found cultured foods, we would travel to my mom’s house in Virginia for Christmas. It was a twenty-hour car ride from my home…

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The Healing Crisis and Cultured Foods

By Donna Schwenk / November 4, 2023

A “healing crisis” is something that happens when the body starts a detoxification process which is really a program of natural healing. This is a common occurrence among some individuals who start consuming cultured foods. When you start consuming cultured foods, your body is flooded with good bacteria. […]

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Autism and Cultured Foods

By Chris Johnston / October 4, 2023
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Episode 253: Tips For Making and Eating Cultured Foods

By Donna Schwenk / August 5, 2023

Listen To My Podcast I’ve been making cultured foods for 22 years and I get lots of questions about different ways to make and consume them. Check out my tips…

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What to Do With Your Cultures While You’re on Vacation

By Donna Schwenk / June 17, 2023

Your cultures (kefir, kombucha, sourdough, and water kefir) are all living organisms and need to be cared for just like a pet. I love them like family, and have found ways to take care of them when I go on vacation. . .

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Episode 244: How I Got Started With Cultured Foods

By Donna Schwenk / May 27, 2023

Listen To My Podcast Twenty-one years ago I was filled with fear and sickness. Much to my surprise cultured foods came to my rescue. I’ve learned so much and continue…

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Probiotic Tomatoes

By Donna Schwenk / May 13, 2023

I have a diverse group of people who subscribe and are members of my site. They have very different diets but all are adding cultured foods to enhance what they’re doing. I’ve discovered that consuming cultured foods is one of the keys to living an incredibly healthy life. Not only have I experienced this, but others are recognizing this as well. […]

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Lauren Walton

By Chris Johnston / March 23, 2023

So I started trying to make cultured foods about a year and a half ago when I started having some troubling symptoms. My dad has Crohn’s disease and I was…

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Gather Your Materials

By Chris Johnston / February 20, 2023
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Decide Which Method

By Chris Johnston / February 20, 2023
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Eczema and Probiotic Foods

By Donna Schwenk / October 15, 2022

Skin Problems What’s Going on Inside Eczema is a skin condition that causes itchy, red patches on different locations of the body and affects over 30 million people, especially children…

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Episode 223: More Help For Eczema and Probiotic Foods

By Donna Schwenk / October 15, 2022

Listen To My Podcast Changing your gut flora can go a long way in helping with any kind of skin condition. I have lots of new information and testimonies of…

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Sleep Problems and Your Gut

By Donna Schwenk / September 24, 2022

Sleeping is fundamental to our wellbeing and health, and I have my own experiences with sleep and health. In 2001 when my daughter Holli was born eight weeks early and weighed in at four pounds, I was a woman on a mission to help her. Babies born this early don’t get the mom’s immunities and Holli was no exception. . .

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Oxalates and Why You Need Fermented Foods

By Donna Schwenk / June 18, 2022

 Oxalates and Gut Health Oxalic acid is an organic compound found in many plants. In fact, all plants produce oxalic acid at various levels. It is their natural defense against…

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Are Probiotic Foods Stronger — Than Probiotic Supplements?

By Donna Schwenk / March 26, 2022

Many people wonder if probiotic pills provide the same benefit as probiotic foods since they seem to be marketed in the same way—healthy bacteria for our guts. However, probiotic foods work significantly better because of their construction […]

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Carolyn Sue Barr

By Chris Johnston / January 31, 2022

Hi Donna. I’m so excited I had to share my story. A year ago I found out through a routine blood work that my kidneys were functioning at 43%. It…

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Eating Cultured Foods For 20 Years

By Donna Schwenk / February 13, 2021

Featured Image PositionClick to adjust the image position. Visitors will not see this. The Call  Finding My Way To Cultured Foods  You have to fight through some bad days to…

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Sourdough Cinnamon Swirl Bread

By Donna Schwenk / December 5, 2020

When I was growing up, my mom always made a Christmas braid on Christmas morning that was filled with cinnamon and nuts and covered in frosting. […]

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You Are The One Thing In Life You Can Control

By Donna Schwenk / November 7, 2020

This is the week of the 2020 presidential election. Needless to say, whatever side you’re on, it’s been an intense week and a lot of people are struggling with strong emotions. I’m surprised to say that I’ve lived a long time (60 years) and now have some life experience that really serves me in times of uncertainty and fear. […]

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Prebiotics – As Important as Probiotics

By Donna Schwenk / May 2, 2020

In the last few years, I have been researching and ingesting a lot of prebiotics; and what I have discovered is that prebiotics are just as important as probiotics. What is a prebiotic and why is this so important? Prebiotics are certain indigestible fibers that nourish the good bacteria in the large bowel or colon. […]

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Episode 122: Cultured Foods Are Your Ally Against Toenail Fungus

By Donna Schwenk / April 28, 2020

So, do you want to know why you have certain persistent problems with things like ringworm, toenail fungus, and athlete’s foot? All of these are caused by a fungus that can spread and grow like crazy and last for years and years. […]

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The Most Powerful Cultured Veggies

By Donna Schwenk / March 14, 2020

I had no idea just exactly what I was making when I created this recipe several years ago. I just thought the combination tasted good and seemed to give me spectacular results during cold and flu season, so I kept making them and giving them to my family. […]

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Anti-Viral Cultured Foods

By Donna Schwenk / March 7, 2020

There is a lot of fear flying around about the flu and especially the coronavirus. If I can help you understand what happens in your body and how it works when you get the flu, or what it can do to protect yourself, then perhaps it will […]

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Tips That Nobody Else Talks About

By Donna Schwenk / February 29, 2020

Years ago when I was young and raising my kids, I was often influenced by well-meaning friends and family. They scared me to death with the latest news they had heard and would say, “Don’t eat this and don’t let your kids do this and did you read that story about how bad this is for you?” […]

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Episode 111: Eczema And Probiotic Foods

By Donna Schwenk / February 11, 2020

Eczema is a skin condition that causes itchy, red patches on different locations of the body and affects over 30 million people. Scientists are finding that infants with low intestinal microbial diversity during the first month of life are associated with atopic eczema. Check out how people are finding relief from eczema by fixing their guts first. […]

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Pumpernickel Sourdough Bread

By Donna Schwenk / February 8, 2020

I have always loved dark pumpernickel bread. Its rich, sweet flavors have been one of my favorite breads to eat plain, or with soups, or with sandwiches. […]

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Aimee Salva

By Chris Johnston / November 13, 2019

At 12 years old I was diagnosed with a goiter. I experienced many issues due to my thyroid. Finally, at 28 I broke out in hives from head to toe…

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Brandi Mayberry

By Chris Johnston / November 11, 2019

In 2012 after a high-stress year, we finally made our dream of moving to Colorado a reality. I could not understand why I couldn’t feel complete joy, why my stomach…

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Enzymes and Your Gut — You Aren’t Just What You Eat, You’re What You Digest and Absorb

By Donna Schwenk / August 17, 2019

Eating cultured foods have not only supplied my body with billions of probiotics but also tons of digestive enzymes. This is one of the many reasons I eat them so often. Having plenty of digestion enzymes is one of the keys to optional health. Digestion when you put something in your mouth. […]

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Thoughts and Habits That Changed Everything

By Donna Schwenk / April 20, 2019

In March 2010 I was turning fifty years old and facing down demons in my life. Our home was going on the auction block on my birthday. I was fighting fear and had two voices in my head. One was filled with hope, the other with panic and fear. Looking back on this time, I remember it so vividly. Months of fear slowly began to turn to hope and for no other reason than I stopped listening to the voice of fear and started to believe that no matter what, I was guided and loved and it would be ok. . .

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Gigi Nelson

By Chris Johnston / April 2, 2019

Hi Donna, This is a story I never really thought I’d share outside of my family and friends. But I’ve decided to change that because it’s something that needs to…

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Sandbox

By Donna Schwenk / March 19, 2019

Hot Pie “You need sour cherries to make it right, and the secret is you dry the stones, and then you break them with a mallet. That’s where the real…

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7 Reasons I Eat Sourdough Bread

By Donna Schwenk / February 23, 2019

So as I write, I’m waiting for my starter to become bubbly. Sourdough bread is only flour, water, and salt. It’s hard to believe it […]

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Irene Bernstein

By Chris Johnston / November 29, 2018

I have been ill for 30 years. Terrible fatigue, brain fog, food allergies, chemical sensitivities. I had been to many, many practitioners, mostly natural. The only thing that helped was…

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Symptoms of an Unbalanced Gut

By Donna Schwenk / November 3, 2018

Sometimes I wonder how I got here. Symptoms of disease struck my life almost two decades ago and it broke me. Those symptoms shook me to my core and I didn’t know that my body was desperately trying to get my attention to help me heal. And heal I did. With a grateful heart, I’m here trying with all I know to help you too. . .

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Jenny Murphy

By Chris Johnston / September 30, 2018

Dear Donna, My story starts about ten years ago while battling Lyme’s Disease. I was in the throes of raising our 7 children and needed to remain active, yet that…

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Barbara Moore

By Chris Johnston / April 17, 2018

Hi Donna, I was reluctant to try cultured food because I have spent more money than I can afford on things that might help me feel better and I really…

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Autism and Cultured Foods

By Donna Schwenk / November 25, 2017

Her name was Mary and she changed my life the day I met her. It was the very beginning of my journey with cultured foods, and I was in hiding with my newfound knowledge. People didn’t understand what I was doing, and the thought of letting food ferment on your counter […]

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Rebecca Willis

By Chris Johnston / July 28, 2017

Hi there, Donna! I bought milk kefir grains from you back in early 2014, after watching your moving testimonial video. My son, Hudson was 4 years old at the time…

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Six Easy Ways To Store Your Cultured Foods

By Donna Schwenk / March 25, 2017

Having lots of fermented foods in your fridge is the same as having a medicine cabinet stocked with natural remedies. We reach for these foods not only to keep us healthy and disease free but also when we find ourselves struggling with a virus, stomach ache, or any other kind of ailment that requires extra body support. […]

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Tammie Kruse

By Chris Johnston / December 28, 2016

Hello to all that are healing: I am 56 years old and have struggled all my life with weight issues, digestive issues, and hypoglycemia. I am a Naturopathic Healer, attended…

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Shipping Policy

By Chris Johnston / August 18, 2016

We offer free shipping to all 50 states for products in this category that total over $99. US territories do not qualify for free shipping. (sorry!) We will determine the…

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Claudia Riemer

By Chris Johnston / June 15, 2016

I started making my own kefir once I learned about your blog and I learned how to make kefir first I started making kombucha and now I’m a keeper and…

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Probiotic Pets!

By Donna Schwenk / March 20, 2016

This little guy in the picture is my puppy Scoby (pronounced like kombucha SCOBY) enjoying his kefir. Kefir is incredibly good for dogs and we hear many stories of how it helps them in so many ways. Did you know that your pets need probiotics, too? […]

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Jerilee Auclair

By Chris Johnston / February 22, 2016

Donna, I cannot THANK YOU enough! I am so amazed. I ALWAYS knew the answer was in the food but could not figure out which ones. I was on anti-depressants…

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Kombucha Treats For Your Dogs

By Donna Schwenk / August 1, 2015

Scoby treats 2I get an overabundance of kombucha SCOBYs (Symbiotic Colony of Bacteria and Yeast). Every time you make a pot of kombucha you get another SCOBY. So what to do with them? I usually just put them in my garden. The plants love the B vitamins in the kombucha SCOBYs and they seem to nurture the soil and keep the bugs away. […]

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Tom Ribel

By Chris Johnston / May 31, 2015

Dear Donna, Three years ago I was so sick I didn’t think I was going to live much longer. I was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver caused by the…

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Coconut Milk

By Donna Schwenk / March 18, 2015
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Steve Kirkbride

By Chris Johnston / December 14, 2014

Hi Donna, I live in the county of Yorkshire in the UK. l purchased a magazine called, “What Doctors don’t Tell You.,” and your story was in the magazine. What…

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Amanda Zbitniff

By Chris Johnston / December 1, 2014

I wanted to say how grateful I am to you and your quest for the whole world to experience the power of cultured foods! I began reading your blog and…

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Question & Answers

By Donna Schwenk / December 13, 2013

I posted a blog and asked for your questions on cultured foods. I am going to attempt to answer these questions in short videos and blog posts. Helping you have…

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Jody Brantley

By Chris Johnston / November 13, 2013

Hello Donna! I’m so thankful for you! Your positive attitude and love for life are contagious. I’ve been on a healing journey for about 3 years now. Severe Adrenal Fatigue,…

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Carolyn Rice

By Chris Johnston / November 13, 2013

Hi Donna, I just wanted to let you know I had my first batch of Kefir tonight. I second fermented with an orange peel as you showed in the video,…

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Bruce Hood

By Chris Johnston / November 13, 2013

Hi, Donna! I have some exciting news to pass on. I remember reading last summer about how probiotics had helped reduce your allergy symptoms, and thinking how wonderful that would…

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Susan W.

By Chris Johnston / November 13, 2013

My life has indeed been touched by fermented foods. I have my 2 children to thank for moving me to this journey. There’s nothing like becoming a mother and it…

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Should Babies and Children Have Cultured Foods?

By Donna Schwenk / July 6, 2013

Having babies is a big event. For me, it was life-threatening and life-changing. My third pregnancy was actually the catalyst for this blog, my website, and my books. My pregnancy was a scary event – things quickly went from bad to worse and they delivered my baby 7.5 weeks early to save my life and hers. […]

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Fermented Dairy Is Better Than Regular Dairy

By Donna Schwenk / October 14, 2023

History of Milk Many of the foods we eat have been deemed either bad or good. Throughout my life, I have witnessed that many foods once deemed to be super…

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Can Rejuvelac Help with Alcoholism?

By Chris Johnston / October 4, 2023
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Does Your Gut Help Control Food Cravings?

By Chris Johnston / October 4, 2023
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Help for Food Allergies, Viruses, and Your Immune System

By Chris Johnston / October 4, 2023
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Probiotic Foods and Cancer

By Chris Johnston / October 4, 2023
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Can You Make Happiness in Your Gut?

By Chris Johnston / October 4, 2023
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Gluten Pain: The Best Teacher

By Chris Johnston / October 4, 2023
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Cultured Peach Pico Bean Dip 🎬

By Chris Johnston / July 25, 2023
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Benefits of Each Cultured Food

By Donna Schwenk / June 10, 2023

 The many things cultures Can Do Nothing has influenced and changed my body and life more than cultured foods. I’ve done many studies on myself and my family and, hands…

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How Many Cultured Foods Do I Eat In a Day?

By Donna Schwenk / March 11, 2023

People have the mistaken idea that I only eat cultured foods all day long. Although there are a lot of days that I do eat only cultured foods, this is not the norm. I mostly eat them because they’re easy for me to prepare and are what I call healthy fast food. […]

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10 Ways To Heal Your Gut

By Donna Schwenk / March 4, 2023

Your gut is your largest immune organ The Microbes That Control You Your gut is your largest immune organ, with a surface area of 100-130 square feet! Inside of you…

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The Mineral That Saved My Life

By Donna Schwenk / January 21, 2023

My family has a history of high blood pressure. I struggled with high blood pressure on and off for years and was told to just expect to take medication for it. This made me fighting mad, and I didn’t want to accept it as predetermined destiny that I had no choice over. I wanted to know why I had a tendency for this and what was happening inside of me that was causing all of this. […]

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I Fed My Microbes on Christmas Day

By Donna Schwenk / December 24, 2022

We love traditions in our family. Every Christmas my mom always made a Christmas braid which was a giant concoction of cinnamon, nuts, and bread topped with a creamy frosting. I kind of changed the recipe with my family and made it from sprouted grains, and this year I decided to break with tradition and make something new. […]

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Homemade Cultured Christmas Gifts

By Donna Schwenk / December 3, 2022

It’s the holidays and we’re all needing all the help we can get. One of the wonderful things about cultured probiotic foods is how fun it is to make them a part of your everyday life […]

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Don’t Be Afraid of Your Ferments — They Know How to Do This

By Donna Schwenk / July 23, 2022

Every day I receive many emails from people who are new to fermenting and want to do a good job. They are afraid they are going to do it wrong, mess it up, or make themselves sick. I know from their letters how hard they are trying. […]

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Probiotic Foods and Cancer

By Donna Schwenk / July 9, 2022

In 2010, I had just started my blog and Facebook page, and the second person to post on my page was a man named Chris asking me How to Make Kombucha. He was a friend of my older kids and what I didn’t know at the time was Chris had just been diagnosed with […]

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Feeding Your Microbes — Wellness is Made in the Gut

By Donna Schwenk / June 25, 2022

The microbes that have made your body their home are quite impressive, and most people are unaware of the magnitude of microbes that reside within them. One hundred trillion microbes is a tremendous amount, and let me better explain just how much this is. . .

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Gluten Pain: The Best Teacher

By Donna Schwenk / May 28, 2022

I have met hundreds of people who are now on gluten-free diets. My daughter used to be one of them. Gluten pain can make life difficult and become a heavy load to bear. How can this grain that has been around since time began suddenly wreak such havoc on […]

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Can You Make Happiness in Your Gut?

By Donna Schwenk / April 30, 2022

Emotions are my best friends. They help me not only understand my present state but also how my body is doing. Researchers are discovering that an imbalance in your gut can cause mental symptoms. They call the gut the second brain, and boy are they right. […]

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Fermented Foods vs Fiber — Guess Who Wins?

By Donna Schwenk / February 19, 2022

 Fermented Foods Stun Researchers Nothing has changed me more than cultured foods. I’ve consumed them for over twenty years and nothing is more convincing than your own life experience. I’ve…

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Seven Healthy Reasons I Love Dates

By Donna Schwenk / May 8, 2021

It’s Mother’s Day and I’m thinking about my mom who lives 2,637 miles away from me in Leesburg, Virginia. My mom loves, loves dates so this blog is for her. […]

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Ines Prine

By Chris Johnston / April 5, 2021

Hi Donna, I’m so happy I found your site. I’ve been using your recipes for a few years now. I’m lucky that nothing is physically wrong with me. I just…

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Fermented Foods Can Help With Constipation and Diarrhea

By Donna Schwenk / March 20, 2021

Nobody really wants to talk about constipation and diarrhea, but it’s something everybody deals with at some time in their life. I’ve had so many people find help with these…

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Reasons And Recipes To Have More Miso

By Donna Schwenk / January 16, 2021

When people think of miso, they mostly think of miso soup, but it is so much more. It has an incredible microbial makeup and is a nutritional powerhouse and is so simple to make and use in recipes that I’ve found myself making and consuming it almost every day. […]

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Overnight Steel Cut Oat

By Donna Schwenk / November 13, 2020
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Gingerbread Granola

By Donna Schwenk / November 11, 2020
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Episode 138: Why Sprouted Flour is Better Than Regular Flour

By Donna Schwenk / October 20, 2020

I have found that most people’s bodies struggle to digest grains. Yet these same bodies flourish with grains that have been sprouted or are made with a sourdough culture. Check out today’s podcast to learn how to make delicious baked goods with sprouted flour. […]

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Why Sprouted Flour is Better Than Regular Flour

By Donna Schwenk / October 10, 2020

Sprouted flour is made by intentionally soaking and germinating grains and then drying them at specific temperatures and milling them into flour.

While I mostly make bread from my sourdough culture (this also unlocks the nutrients), I make almost all my cookies, muffins, and desserts from sprouted flour. I’ve done this for two decades. […]

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Probiotic Foods for Different Ailments

By Donna Schwenk / September 12, 2020

Probiotics have become an exciting frontier in health and wellness. Most people only think about probiotic supplements in a bottle, but today we’re talking about foods that have probiotics in them. These probiotic foods have billions more probiotics than supplements. . .

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Breakfast Sourdough Bread

By Donna Schwenk / May 23, 2020

This is the bread I make at least two or three times a week. As my business has been growing and I found myself with less time, this bread recipe has become the bread I make most often. It only has four ingredients and takes about 5 minutes to throw together. […]

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Does Your Body Need a Miracle?

By Donna Schwenk / May 9, 2020

Do you believe that healing requires a miracle, or do you believe that our trillions of cells govern themselves and create the bodies that we have? So how does the eye know how to focus or the muscle know how much energy it will need during your walk today? […]

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Fermented Foods and IBS

By Donna Schwenk / February 15, 2020

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is usually identified by a group of symptoms: abdominal pain, bloating, and a change in bowels that can alternate between diarrhea and constipation. […]

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Fibromyalgia and Fermented Foods

By Donna Schwenk / September 14, 2019

Fibromyalgia is one of the fastest-growing disabling conditions. It affects 2-4 percent of the population and has no known cure. It seems to affect mostly women, and I see it cropping up everywhere. […]

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The FODMAP Diet for SIBO, IBS, and Probiotic Foods

By Donna Schwenk / July 27, 2019

We all know that food choices can drastically impact health symptoms. So, it’s no surprise that diets are continuously developed for different health conditions or symptoms. IBS and SIBO sufferers have a difficult time finding things to eat that don’t flare symptoms. […]

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Easy Ways To Heal Your Microbiome

By Donna Schwenk / February 2, 2019

I talk a lot about your body and what your body is made out of. Those 100 trillion microbes (which is more than ten times the cells in the body) that call you home are your constant companions. Most of you don’t even know your microbes because you can’t see them, but they know you and work their darndest to keep you alive each day. . .

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Can Your Gut Heal Your Joints?

By Donna Schwenk / January 19, 2019

When I first started with cultured foods almost two decades ago, one of the first things I noticed was the relief of joint pain in my knee. This was in the very beginning of drinking and making kefir every day. If I quit drinking kefir, it only took about three to four days before the pain would return, so I kept drinking my kefir. . .

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Got an Acidic Stomach? The Surprising Remedy

By Donna Schwenk / November 10, 2018

In 2017, we moved across the country from Kansas City to Southern California to be closer to our two older children. Our family – Ron, me and our three kids and our son-in-law – are thick as thieves. I’ve always lived far away from my mom and dad and sisters who mostly reside on the east coast. […]

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The Flu Shot in a Jar

By Donna Schwenk / September 29, 2018

Fall through winter is the time of year they call “flu season.” People are really afraid of it but I have often said, “The flu should be afraid of me!” When you build up the good bacteria in your body, you create an army that goes with you everywhere you go and touches every person you come in contact with. . .

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Cultured Layered Bean Dip

By Maci / August 16, 2018
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Best Black Bean Soup

By Donna Schwenk / April 5, 2018
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Bonkers

By Chris Johnston / February 12, 2018

This is Bonkers, one of our rescue cats. He has the Herpes virus and suffered from terrible mucous and irregular bowels for years. Our veterinarian recommended a Lysine supplement It…

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I Stopped Eating Cultured Foods ~ Here’s What Happened!

By Donna Schwenk / February 10, 2018

I’ve been eating cultured foods for almost sixteen years. I eat them most every day with very few exceptions. When I first started eating cultured foods, I had diabetes, high blood pressure, joint pain, and felt discouraged and depressed […]

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What Are Cultured Foods? Restorative Foods for the Body

By Donna Schwenk / April 8, 2017

Cultured Foods and LACTO-Fermented Foods are the same thing. The “lacto” in “lacto-fermentation” comes from the bacteria “lactobacillus.” Many strains of lacto-bacteria and yeasts are involved in culturing or fermenting foods. […]

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Pamela Fife

By Chris Johnston / November 7, 2016

Not sure how to start one of these, but here goes. Several years ago, about 6 or 7 years, I began to get really sick. Just all of a sudden…

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Quart Jar

By Chris Johnston / October 13, 2016

This wide mouth 32 oz. quart-size jar is perfect for making Milk Kefir and Water Kefir, and also for storing Cultured Vegetables in the refrigerator. Donna makes kefir in this…

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Half-Gallon Jar

By Donna Schwenk / October 7, 2016

Proudly Made in the USA: Our half gallon glass jars are USDA certified food grade. Our glass jars are perfect for displaying food in cafes, bakeries, restaurants, or in your…

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Cindy Lou

By Chris Johnston / September 24, 2015

3 years ago I experienced what is called trigger finger! My fingers were locking up and not bending any longer but locking into a closed position. I had a CK…

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More Than Taco Salad

By Donna Schwenk / September 10, 2014
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Can Rejuvelac Help with Alcoholism?

By Donna Schwenk / November 16, 2013

Have you heard of the fermented probiotic drink called Rejuvelac? The first time I heard of it I was just beginning with all things fermented and this drink intrigued me. […]

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Jeremiah England

By Chris Johnston / November 13, 2013

Donna, I really can’t say thank you enough for introducing me to cultured foods. Nothing is harder for a parent than watching your child be sick. My son, Daniel, was…

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By Donna Schwenk / May 14, 2012

Kefir Kombucha Cultured Vegetables Sprouted & Sourdough Starter Cultures Books & DVDs Membership View All Categories If you like this, then please share! Kefir Kombucha Cultured Vegetables Sprouted and Sourdough…

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