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Common Sleep Issues: Sleep Apnea
Sleep is a critical component of our overall health, yet many individuals struggle with common sleep disorders that can significantly impact their quality of life. Among these, sleep apnea stands out as a particularly disruptive condition.
Navigating Natural Sleep Aids & Sleep Medications
To counter sleep disturbances, a variety of remedies ranging from natural sleep aids to prescription sleep medications have become available. Understanding the nuances of these options can empower individuals to make informed choices that enhance their nightly rest without compromising their health.
Essential Day & Night Routines for Optimal Rest
Creating habits that promote better sleep is essential for maintaining our physical and mental well-being. A consistent routine, both during the day and in the evening, can significantly improve the quality of sleep we get each night.
The Science of Sleep: Why Your Body & Mind Need It
Sleep is an essential component of a healthy lifestyle, often undervalued in our busy, modern lives. While many focus on diet and exercise as pillars of well-being, sleep is equally critical but frequently overlooked.
Spring Cleaning: Cleanse Your Gut
Your gut health is a cornerstone to your overall well-being and plays a pivotal role in your body's natural detoxification process. But did you know that a successful detox is about more than just sipping on green juices and indulging in salads?
Spring Cleaning: Cleanse Your Diet
Investing in your health doesn't necessarily mean spending hours at the gym or buying expensive supplements, sometimes it's as simple as rethinking your eating habits.
Spring Cleaning: Cleanse Your Routine
Have you looked at your mission statement recently? You know, that personal declaration that defines your purpose, your goals, and who you want to become.
Spring Cleaning: Cleanse Your Relationships
The people we surround ourselves with significantly influence not just our moods, but our perspectives and overall well-being. Thus, it becomes crucial to take an inventory of our relationships.
Spring Cleaning: Cleanse Your Mind
It's time to cleanse your mind, clear your thoughts, and rejuvenate your mental wellbeing. We often talk about detoxifying our bodies, but what about our minds?
Spring Cleaning: Cleanse Your Spirit
In today's fast-paced, technology-driven world, it's all too easy to lose sight of our core, our spirit, that inner essence that defines who we are. One way to regain that connection, to refresh our spirits and realign with our true selves, is through a spiritual detox.
Spring Cleaning: Cleanse Your Environment
Detoxing your body is a familiar concept, but have you ever considered detoxing your environment? It involves a deep cleaning of your space, taking into consideration not just the visible dirt, but also the invisible pollutants that can negatively affect your health.
Thyroid Dysfunction – Pervasive or Rare?
Thyroid disorders are prevalent, especially in women, affecting roughly 10 million individuals who have been diagnosed with low thyroid functionality. Countless others likely suffer from undiagnosed issues or sub-optimal thyroid operation. However, detecting low thyroid function is not sufficient. We must ask, "Why is this happening, and why now?"
Marvelous Magnesium
Among the many essential uses of magnesium are: normal muscle function, normal nerve function, regulation of heart rhythm, regulation of blood sugar, maintain bone health, maintain a healthy immune system, detoxify the internal and external world, and generate energy.
Get a Grip on Lyme Disease
Lyme disease is a challenging infectious disease that, if not treated completely, could lead to a chronic condition.
The Truth About Sunscreens
The sun can energize us. Its daily and seasonal cycles are the foundations of our circadian rhythms. Sunlight absorbed through our skin drives our production of the master hormone Vitamin D. And sunlight creates oxidative stress and increases DNA damage in the skin (squamous cell cancer and melanoma).
Save Your Brain
Sometimes we don’t recognize how valuable a skill is until we're losing it. Rather than delaying interventions to strengthen brain health, maybe we can begin much earlier.
It’s Getting Buggy Out
The summer season has finally arrived. With all the spring rain come lots of lush summer greenery and colorful flowers… and insects. Fortunately, there are many non-toxic options available to protect ourselves from these organisms.
Bone Broth Benefits
Bone broth has been used throughout human history. Remember chicken help heals the cold (and the soul).
Essential Amino Acids
Amino acids are broken down from proteins in our diet by a properly functioning digestive system. Foods high in proteins are usually sufficient to give us our necessary amount of amino acids.
Compounding – What Is It & How Can It Help My Family?
In Functional Medicine, we combine a functional approach to health using lifestyle and diet combined with appropriate herbal, vitamin, and mineral support. Compounding of medications goes back to the very beginnings of medicine. Advanced technology makes it possible for a qualified pharmaceutical laboratory to achieve the accuracy of pharmaceutical companies while treating each case individually for optimum results.