4 Simple Changes to Help With Insomnia
According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine’s ICSD-3 manual, insomnia is defined as “persistent difficulty with sleep initiation, duration, consolidation or quality,” and the CDC stated that 1 in 3 adults don’t get enough sleep. As anyone who’s ever had a sleepless night can tell you, lack of sleep can affect our mood,...
5 Easy Ways to Get Vitamin D Without Going Outside
Most people enjoy the sunlight. They enjoy its warmth, health benefits, and mood-boosting good-ole-attitude. Not me. I prefer to stay indoors. It wasn’t really my fault I have an aversion to sunlight; I work all day from home and with everything being accessible with the push of a button on an app, there was no really good...
Irregular Cycles and What to Do
As women, we are hopeful our body carries out its natural processes at normal rates. For instance, our period, or our menstrual cycle. Undergoing this monthly cycle makes us feel productive, despite symptoms like discomforting cramps or bloating it brings. Our body is discarding the uterine lining it has no use for, and is further keeping...
Caring For Your Thyroid
The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland in the throat that is integral to the hormonal and metabolic regulatory dance that your body orchestrates among its larger system of endocrine glands, brain and gut. It’s responsible for controlling metabolism, menstrual cycles and mood, as well as a myriad of other biological functions. The...
Natural Remedies for Allergies
It’s Allergy Season The sun is shining, flowers are starting to peek out of the soil, and puffy winter coats are being put away. Spring is coming! In Chinese Medicine, spring is the time of Wood energy, when the world starts to emerge from hibernation, days grow longer and warmer and our energy is rejuvenated. For some of us, though,...
The Nutritional Know-How For Endometriosis
Women can face a lot of risks when it comes to reproductive health. A disorder that affects up to 10% of women, known as Endometriosis, occurs when tissue grows outside of your uterine activity, also referred to as endometrial tissue. What hindrances can this cause for your body? Complications include irritation, pain during your...
Acupuncture for Treating Chronic Illnesses & Pain
Some say nature’s best medicine is yourself. Your body wants to protect itself; heal itself; and touch the edges of its true potential. But that is not always the case for those with a chronic illness. Whether you were diagnosed early in life or later on, it can be very hard to trust your body when you are still learning to understand...
Vitamin D and IBS
We hear a lot about the importance of vitamin D with respect to its links to mood, bone health, immunity and hormonal regulation, but did you know it also plays an important role in gut health? This is not surprising if you consider there are special vitamin D receptors in the gut and most absorption occurs in the intestines. Studies on...
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