Gut Health
Your gastrointestinal tract plays a critical and quite obvious role in your health – transporting food from the mouth to the stomach, converting it into nutrients and energy, and eliminating waste from the body. However, did you know that your gut has been linked to several other essential functions in your body like immunity, managing chronic inflammation, suppressing cancer formation, and even helping to manage emotional stress? Check out these posts for ways to improve gut health!
The One Thing That Affects Your Whole Body
Your gastrointestinal tract plays a critical and quite obvious role in your health – transporting food from the mouth to the stomach, converting it into…
The Surprising Problem You Might Have If You’re A Runner
We’ve all heard how good running can be for you. Running helps to lose weight, prevent disease, lower stress, strengthen joints, manage blood pressure… the…
Health Effects of Green Tea: From Catechins to EGCG
Here’s something about me: I usually like drinking green tea plain. Sometimes I’ll take it with a squeeze of lemon and a dollop of honey…
How to Naturally Strengthen Your Immune System
With all of the latest news on the Coronavirus, the flu, and other illnesses going around, it’s no surprise that people are seeking natural ways…
The Acne Diet
Hippocrates once said, “Let food be thy medicine.” Simply put, our diet has a profound effect on our health, both in terms of treating and…
Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions
Chronic pain conditions often occur together in the same person, which means that they may have similar underlying causes. Image Reference: Chronic Pain Research Alliance.…
Seasonal Affective Disorder – Natural Suggestions for Managing Those Winter Blues
Have you been noticing that you’ve been feeling the desire to hibernate? Feeling kind of lower in mood? Or irritable, agitated…maybe those closest too you…
The Anxiety and Gut Connection: What You Need to Know
There is a biological reason that people can share in the human experience of: “butterflies in the stomach”, “nervous diarrhea” before a special event, feeling…
5 Anti-Aging Solutions for Your Brain
It’s a cloudy day here and I was thinking about how easy it would be to lay on my sofa with my cavapoo, Sheva, and…
A Functional Wellness Approach to Weight Loss
Are you looking for a long term solution to reach your desired happy weight? Have you tried multiple times to lose weight that just won’t…
Top 4 Supplements for Prenatal Health
Eating a wide-variety of nutrient-dense foods throughout pregnancy is the best way to ensure you’re providing the best for you and your growing baby. However,…
How to Naturally Remineralize Teeth & Prevent Cavities
Before we go into how to remineralize the teeth, let’s answer the question: What is a cavity? A cavity (AKA dental carie) is a hole…
An Integrative Approach To Healing Cancer
Since my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer, I’ve been researching alternative treatments that she can incorporate in conjunction with her conventional treatment. This post…
10 Tips To Combat an Unhealthy Gut
An ‘unhealthy’ gut is all the rage right now. It is what everyone has questions about, what everyone wants to figure out and foods that…
Estrogen Dominance & High Functioning Anxiety
You are busy, but it is okay, because you always have been. In fact, it is what you are known for. Currently you are juggling…
The Glymphatic System & Brain Health
In the year 2015, researchers defined a system in the human body which they called the glymphatic system, a system which removes waste from the…
Control Your Brain. Control Your Health.
If I had to pick a favorite subject, or system when it comes to human health, I’d have to go with neurotransmitters and brain function. …
What We Can Learn From Mouse Models Of Autism
1. Introduction Autism is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder whose incidence has been rising dramatically in the past two decades, in step with the dramatic rise…
The 5 Stages of Digestion
Digestion is undoubtedly one of the most important foundations of health. Every cell of every tissue in your body depends on good digestion to break…
PCOS – What Does It Mean?
Living with PCOS There’s around a 10% chance that you have polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), if you are a woman of reproductive age. In fact,…