But what is “good food”? Make fruits and vegetables easy to grab for snacks. They can be precut and stored in glass containers. Add some whole milk cottage cheese, hummus, nut butters, or other minimally processed dips to enhance (or cover up 🙂 your veggie flavors).
Health is our natural state. This is often forgotten because we come to accept our aches, pains, and illness as normal. It is not. We accomplish health by living in accordance with the laws of nature.Here is your prescription for just that!
What happens when my husband and I come to the clinic on a Sunday for a sauna and a cold plunge? We usually find some kind of project to work on. This week it was changing the layout of two of the rooms to make them both more comfortable and functional. Win-win!
What is something you have learned this week? A question I had for myself was this: Since Akkermansia muciniphila (which is a probiotic strain) is a mucolytic – meaning that it degrades mucus – and we need a good mucosal lining in the gut to protect it and keep keep things running smoothly, why is…
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(Reposting with permission from AANP and INM) Here’s how licensed naturopathic doctors (NDs) are contributing to the revolution in wellness: Whole Person Health: NDs emphasize a holistic approach to wellness, treating the whole person rather than just the symptoms of a disease. Integrative Approach: NDs skillfully combine natural therapeutic traditions with modern science to restore…
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Evolution of Stress We have built in survival mechanisms that determines how our body reacts to stress. It triggers our sympathetic nervous system which is responsible for the “fight-or-flight” processes that would enable us to react quickly in a life-threating situation. Most of us don’t find ourselves in those near death situations very often, but…
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Please stop in to see our new office!
Here are some photos of the new clinic space. The perfect place to get your wellness on with our new In addition to naturopathy, nutrition, homeopathy, botanicals and Metabolic Balance, we also have Sunlighten far infrared sauna, Plunge tub, and Platinum LED red light therapy.
Reframing stress into something that can be friend instead of foe can make it so. This Ted Talk by Kelly McGonigal is an enlightening way to think about those physical sensations of stress.
