Let’s face it—with the holidays around the corner, we all worry about excessive eating, drinking, and that overall feeling of overindulgence. I always tell my clients that it’s better to indulge than to stress! It just makes more sense to own up to the fact that there will be this short time when we will
A nourishing diet fosters an optimal environment for beneficial gut bacteria to thrive, concurrently reducing the prevalence of pathogenic bacteria, fungi, and yeast. Distinct bacterial varieties inhabit specific regions within your gastrointestinal tract, and additional bacteria reside in areas like the mouth and skin.
Holidays are a perfect time of year to spoil your friends and family. It’s also a great opportunity to buy them a gift that they would never buy for themselves. One example that quickly comes to mind is training sessions with a personal trainer or a massage. Even though we all love to get a massage, we may not want to splurge on ourselves. We can all use more self-care, but it often gets neglected due to other priorities.
Holidays are a perfect time of year to spoil your friends and family. It’s also a great opportunity to buy them a gift that they would never buy for themselves. One example that quickly comes to mind is training sessions with a personal trainer or a massage. Even though we all love to get a massage, we may not want to splurge on ourselves. We can all use more self-care, but it often gets neglected due to other priorities.
With so many healthy choices out there today, all you have to do is explore new options and not gravitate toward the same old habits and menus year after year.
What is stress? When we think of stress, we immediately associate it with something negative. This is not always true. As humans we have developed a keen sense of survival in our nervous system called the flight or fight response. Back in the day, this was the mechanism that helped us to escape physical threats
WHAT DOES BODILY PH MEAN? We are always hearing about the pH of our blood and the necessity of staying in balance, also referred to as homeostasis. What does that really mean? The potential of hydrogen ( pH ) is a measure of acidity or alkalinity of a solution. The lower the pH, on a
Welcome spring! This is customarily the time of year we clean up our homes, our closets, and our yards. What we don’t realize is, as important as it is to clean up our external environment, it’s even more important to clean up our internal environment. As the seasons change, so do our bodies. When our
I get asked so frequently for a good bone broth recipe that I decided there is no better time than the start of a New Year to share how I prepare mine and why! Bone broth is typically made with bones but can also contain a small amount of meat still on the bones.
Instead of focusing on the impending “flu season”, we should all be thinking about prevention, keeping our immune system strong and healthy. Most flu like symptoms, like coughing, sneezing, and aches, are not bacterial but viral. These symptoms are the body’s way of expressing discomfort when trying to eliminate toxins. Stifling these symptoms with pharmaceutical
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