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Best Immune Support Tips
While I would argue that optimizing health and supporting your immune system should be a regular goal, this year in particular it’s front and centre for obvious reasons. I wanted to give you some obvious, but clear reminders on how you can positively impact your body and immune system throughout a regular cold a flu... [Read More]
Could Food Sensitivities Be The Root Cause Of Your Symptoms?
Food Sensitivities are something that I see all the time in my practice. They’re different from allergies in that they can’t kill you, but they can sure make you feel terrible. Do you have any of these? Weight Gain Migraine headaches (even Chinook migraines can be caused by them!) Stomach cramping Bloating (ever feel like... [Read More]
Four Kitchen Gadgets To Save Up For
Over the years of adding more skills, recipes, preservation methods, etc to my arsenal, I’ve begun to accumulate some incredibly helpful tools to make things so much easier and faster. Today, I wanted to share some of my favorites with you and give you an idea of what I use them for! Dehydrator If you... [Read More]
Benefits of Buying in Bulk
Buying in bulk is such a great way to extend your money and right now is the perfect time of the year to do so! So far this year, we’ve bought the following in bulk:· Apricots· Beets· Potatoes· Onions· Carrots· Peaches· Nectarines· Apples Seasonality, Local Food and Nutrients Sure you can technically get strawberries in January, but they tend to be flavorless and sort of awful.... [Read More]
Three Things To Get Rid of In Your Home
Environmental Medicine is such an important topic for me, and should be for you too! Super basically, it’s all about how your exposure to certain chemicals can affect or change things in your body. Unfortunately, there are a LOT of chemicals out there that can be troublemakers. People will often say, “oh but it’s the dose... [Read More]
Why I’m SUPER Picky about Blood Work
So often I hear from patients that they had some blood work done and they either didn’t hear back about it at all, or they were told “everything is fine.” The frustrating part though, is that so commonly patients aren’t FEELING fine, and they don’t understand how blood work could come back as “normal”. The... [Read More]
Are You Listening To Your Body?
Obviously this is normally an important topic, but I’ve found that it’s been particularly key lately to ensure your body has the support it needs when it may not be feeling its best. Your current stressors of late may be more than you’re used to dealing with. You may not even be conscious of it... [Read More]
Why You MUST Take a Lunch BREAK
I literally have this discussion multiple times per week with patients. I’d love to say that it got better with covid and more people working from home, but I actually think it got worse! It’s so easy to let boundaries slip at home with work time taking over more of what should be your “away from... [Read More]
An Important Reminder About Pushing
My Concerns I can’t even count the number of times I’ve had conversations the last few weeks around how hard patients are pushing themselves. While it’s true that many are enjoying the “work from home” aspect, I’ve noticed a few common trends that I DO NOT WANT TO CONTINUE. Lack of Breaks Whether you’re working from home,... [Read More]
If Healthy Food Tastes Bad, You’re Doing It Wrong
We’ve been sold a lie by corporations trying to sell us garbage and junk, that healthy food isn’t worth eating because it tastes bad. I know this, because as a millennial growing up, our generation ate a lot of crap…there were the dunkeroos, the pizza pops, the lunchables and the gushers. Our parents gave in... [Read More]