Mona Sharma is a dynamic leader and entrepreneur in the health and wellness industry who works with high profile clients around the world. As Will Smith, Julianne Hough, Hrithik Roshan’s nutritionist, she has a reoccurring role on the Facebook series Red Table Talk where they profile her work with Will, and the entire Smith family’s healing journey. Having grown up living on an Ashram, Mona has seen first-hand the healing power of food and mindfulness. Her approach is rooted in this philosophy - food as medicine, movement as therapy and mindfulness as the journey to optimize health. This was the foundation that led to her recovery from two heart surgeries, debilitating anxiety and ultimately changed her career path from a high-profile corporate job. Mona is also the founder of Xicama an innovative line of functional beverage products that deliver gut health and immune boosting benefits of the superfood jicama, and broke sales records as an official beverage of Coachella 2019.
Just as we were getting used to adding probiotics to our health regime, in comes another way to let our gut bacteria flourish. Prebiotics are rapidly gaining attention for their role in gut health. But before you buy another supplement, here are all the details about prebiotics vs. probiotics and how to add them to [...]
Feeding intestinal bacteria might not sound like a good thing, but it’s incredibly beneficial. “Gut health is the root of all health. With the science emerging today, we’re realizing that the gut may be the epicenter for disease. Probiotics are essentially microbes or good bacteria that populate our lower GI tract. For years I’ve used jicama on my clients’ meal plans because it’s loaded with prebiotic fiber.