The Sweet Health Benefits of Honey
Who says living a healthy lifestyle needs to be bitter? If you’re looking to begin your wellness journey but don’t want to sacrifice your sweet tooth, you might find the answer among the bees. Bees make the sticky gold-colored liquid we’ve come to know as honey. You might have seen it used as a topping for toast or as a...
How to Stay Healthy with a Busy Schedule
Start -- Take Care of You! One of the easiest things to do when you have a jam packed schedule is forget to take care of yourself. Especially now with our work from home modality, when there's a busy day at work, sometimes you even forget to eat! Now, I’m not saying this should be normal, because it shouldn’t be. We should be...
Medicinal Properties of Seaweed
Different cultures celebrate their birthdays with various foods and activities. In France, they eat a delicious treat called croquembouche. In Mexico, the children celebrate by breaking the piñatas. In England, they prepare and eat fortune-telling cake. The list goes on and on, but in my hometown, South Korea, we celebrate by eating...
What to Eat (and Avoid) to Promote Thyroid Health
Hypothyroidism is a common condition impacting many women today. When your thyroid gland doesn't produce enough of certain hormones, it can lead to things like slow digestion, fatigue, dry skin, hair loss, infertility, irregular periods and other life-disrupting ailments. Understanding how your thyroid works and being aware of what foods...
Music Therapy and Fertility
Did you know that something as simple as listening to music can help you with your fertility journey? Infertility is an extremely complex issue that has various causes. Oftentimes solutions to these issues can seem very overwhelming and at times quite invasive. However, studies have shown that the basic act of listening to music,...
Nutritional Tips to Conquer PMS
Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is a not-so-fun time that affects millions of women. It’s caused by having an imbalance in hormone levels and can manifest physically as tender breasts, headaches and cramps. It can also even impact the ‘feel-good’ chemicals in your brain (serotonin) trigger stress hormones, increase fluid retention and...
Help for Managing Estrogens
Estrogens are a vital aspect of female (and male) hormonal health. When properly balanced, they play an important role in helping women protect against inflammation, prepare the uterus for pregnancy, boost muscle mass, keep us thinking sharply, make us feel sexy and support the production of serotonin. Pretty crucial...
Acupuncture and Sports Medicine for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS)
Have you ever experienced a sensation of tingling in your hand at night after long hours of typing or using fine motor skills? This condition is known as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS), and it accounts for 90% of all neuropathies, making it the most common nerve entrapment (Sevy, 2022). The entrapment of the nerve causes tingling, pain,...
