Skin Care from the Inside Out | Acne, Wrinkles, Spots & Bumps
Noticing changes in how your skin looks can be a big motivator for adopting a healthier lifestyle. You’ve learned through experience that too much alcohol will give you bags under your eyes the next day, or overindulging in sweets will cause puffiness. But when it comes to wrinkles, redness, spots or acne the triggers may…
Kale and Dark Leafy Greens Your Family Will Love
We’ve all heard we should add more dark leafy greens to our diets. But the word that is often left out of that sentence is “dark”. The leafy greens that are most consumed – lettuce – unfortunately, are the lowest in nutrients. But greens like kale, collards, mustard greens and swiss chard are packed full…
Is Your Make-up Contributing to Your Perimenopause Symptoms?
As awareness about perimenopause symptoms grow, more women are becoming aware of the symptoms of estrogen dominance. However you might be wondering, is where all of this estrogen is coming from? Common household products, especially cosmetics and personal care products created for women, contain chemicals that mimic the body’s natural estrogens known as environmental…
Dairy Intolerance | Is It Behind Your Acid Reflux Symptoms?
Have you ever noticed your acid reflux flares up after a big helping of rich, delicious, creamy comfort food? It may be a hard reality to face, but your favorite cheesy, milky, or creamy indulgence may be behind your digestion problems. You might be asking how can acid reflux be caused by eating dairy? …
What’s Missing in Your Diet Could Be Costing You Sleep
Are You Eating Enough Potassium? You may already know that incorporating more potassium into your diet can help regulate your blood pressure.But, did you know that potassium also works with magnesium to improve your sleep! If you ever wake in the middle of the night with muscle cramps this power combo can be super beneficial…
Eating Well to Manage Perimenopause Symptoms
When you hear the word menopause, how many of you automatically think, “hot flash”? Can you even imagine going through menopause without them? Well, you can. You’re probably wondering, how can this be? What can you do to make yourself more likely to be one of those women? Like many health concerns, perimenopause…
Stress Management for Acid Reflux Symptoms
Of all the things that you think cause acid refluxI bet stress isn’t at the top of your list. Well it should be. Learning to manage your stress level is an important step in correcting the underlying causes of acid reflux, as well as promoting overall well-being. Many people suspect that too much…
Sleep Your Way to Better Health
Sleep your way to a healthier you Your sleep needs can change depending on factors such as: infection stress strenuous physical activity sleep debt Make Time for Sleep Sometimes we tend to focus on everybody else in our families but ourselves. Take time for you, and this includes your sleep. For the next week try to…
Too Much Stomach Acid | Myth or Fact of Acid Reflux Symptoms?
If you’ve ever felt that familiar fiery feeling brought on by acid reflux, it would be very easy to believe that having to much stomach acid is to blame. But, the truth of the matter isn’t so black and white. While most assume that acid reflux is caused by too much stomach acid, acid…
4 Indulgences that may be Causing Acid Reflux Symptoms
There’s nothing like a little indulgence when you’ve made it through another stressful day. There is nothing wrong with breaking the rules of good health a little here and there, if your body has a good reserve of resources from to buffer the effects. But if you’ve been burning the candle at both ends your…
3 Weeks to Change Your Sleep
Finding it hard to get a couple hours of quality shuteye, let alone a full 8 hours? Well lucky for you there was a study conducted to determine ideal sleep durations for YOU and how to achieve it. Determining YOUR ideal sleep duration Ok so basically a th study conducted takes regular people and puts them in…
Your Sleep & Wake Drive and Why They Are Important to Your Sleep
This blog post is based on the article published in Human Neurobiology by Dr. Alexander Borbely, describing a concept of how our sleep and wake our controlled by 2 processes. Process 1 Sleep pressure is the first process and is defined by the pressure for sleep that mounts from the minute you wake in the morning until your head hits…
Are Some People Just Born Night Owls? The Truth About Insomnia
Some patients tell me they’re “naturally” night owls, and they just prefer to stay up late and sleep in. But the truth is that optimal sleep patterns don’t fall into the category of preference. We are hard-wired to sleep when it’s dark. And specifically, before 11pm. Over millions of years of human evolution sleep patterns…
Adrenal Fatigue | The Truth Behind Feeling “Wired and Tired”
Do you find yourself waking up exhausted yet when it’s time to go to bed you can’t seem to unwind? Let me tell you about a woman who recently came to see me. She was cranky, wanted to take a nap every afternoon and could not lose the weight she gained during her pregnancy 3…
The Surprising Cost of Being a Night Owl
Most of what we hear about getting enough sleep relates to how LONG you sleep, but a significant factor in getting the rest you need is WHEN you sleep. The first time I heard the saying “an hour before midnight is worth two hours after” I didn’t know what to make of it. But it turns…