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Hormones: Creating the Balance

When people think of “hormones” they tend to associate them with extreme times of change, like puberty, pregnancy, or menopause. It is true hormones are responsible for those extreme changes, but they also affect us every day. Hormones are chemical messengers that support critical cell functions. Learn simple tips on how to naturally balance your hormones.

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The Benefits of Osteopathy

Osteopathy is a healing art that operates under the philosophy that the body is fundamentally capable of healing itself from illness or injury without medication, surgery or other invasive intervention. While its focus is on a specific region or tissue, usually the source of the pain or ailment, osteopathy manipulates and strengthens the musculoskeletal framework of the whole body to treat a specific discomfort.

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How to Reduce Pain through Myofascial Release

Inflammation is a painful, damaging condition which tells us that the body is in repair mode or deal with an invader. Inflammation often builds up in myofascial tissue, making it difficult to move efficiently. Learn more about how myofascial release therapy can help decrease pain.

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Great Nutrient Collapse: How Climate Change is Affecting Our Food

You are what you eat, ate! — to reflect the world’s population consume more animal products than any other time in history. People have forgotten that in their addiction for more meat, they have forgotten that most animals only eat plants and are sickened by what humans eat. The same is true for the planet and how much it is crying because of man.

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Elimination Diet: What Is It and How to Implement It?

Millions of people struggle with their weight, digestive system, and overall health. It is incredibly frustrating to eat a meal only to suffer discomfort afterward. For many people, the root cause of the problems may be allergies, intolerance, or sensitivity to certain foods. Unfortunately, conventional medicine doctors are not well trained in nutrition and do not always see the direct correlation between food and illness.

People are starting to look to the elimination diet for help. Learn more what this is and how to implement it.

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Respiratory Health: Breathe Easy This Spring

A person's lungs are one of the most critical organs in the human body, but they aren't often cared for the way they should be. Learn about simple tips to keep your lungs healthy so you don’t have to worry about breathing.

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Personalized Lifestyle Medicine for Breast Cancer Risk Reduction

Breast cancer is the #1 cancer in women and 2nd cause of death after cardiovascular disease. Men can also develop breast cancer. Learn how integrative medicine customized to a person can reduce your risk of cancer.

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Suffer from Inflammation? Ayurveda May Be the Answer

Ayurveda is an ancient medicine originally from India which studies life and how to use natural remedies to treat illness. It believes that the body is able to naturally repair itself if given the right support. People all around the world have adopted Ayurveda to relieve the symptoms of various types of medical conditions, and stay healthy and vibrant.

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What is Autoimmune Disease?

Our immune system is made up of trillions of cells, tissues, and organs whose job it is to protect us from foreign invaders. 85 to 90% of the immune system is inside the digestive tract and controlled by the microbiome. When the gut is not working optimally due to factors, such as hidden food allergies and antibodies, toxins and other pathogens start leaking out into the bloodstream and poisoning the body. This is what sets a person up for an autoimmune disease.

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A Well-Organized Kitchen Fuels our Mind and Body

Health begins in home, and more specifically, in the kitchen. From the moment you wake up, the decisions you make set the course of your day.  Your decisions forms your rituals and habits, and define your future. For that reason, it’s important to understand the importance of a well-organized kitchen.

Food fuels everything; food is medicine.

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How to Reduce Toxins After the Holiday Season

As the new year gets under way, many people are trying to make good on resolutions that included "getting healthy," but what does that mean, exactly? Getting healthy means different things for different people. The key is to find creative way to remove or reduce toxins and feel your best.

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Understanding the Difference Between Food Sensitivity and Food Allergy

There’s a very clear difference between food that will kill us and others which will make us feel uncomfortable. Learn the difference between food sensitivity versus an allergy.

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Why Are B vitamins so Important to Pregnant Women?

B vitamins are one of the most important nutrients for everyone, especially in pregnancy. Infancy and pregnancy are the times in a person’s life when cellular metabolism is at its most intensive. Cellular mitosis changes a fertilized egg into a whole cluster of cells growing exponentially.  Eventually, raw stem cells diversify into highly specialized tissues in a developing fetus. B vitamins, in particular, are especially important for this cell diversification in order to develop healthy organs, especially the brain and nervous system.

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Alkaline Diet: Food for the Brain

An alkaline diet helps decrease creating acidic waste products, and has nothing to do with the relative alkalinity of the foods. Dairy products, for example, are alkaline in nature but inside a human create an acidic reaction. When we shift to an more alkaline diet, it is associated with a wide variety of mental and physical benefits.

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