Practical Habits for a Fulfilling Life
Establishing healthy lifestyle habits is vital to living a fuller, active life. From rest to nutrition and relationships, it’s important to pay attention to all aspects of your health. In this blog post, we’ll provide tips for building healthy habits and the benefits of Functional Medicine Coaching. The Best Therapy is Rest You have a […]
Essential Fatty Acids: The Key to Optimal Health
Fatty acids are essential for the proper functioning of the body. They are the building blocks of our cell membranes, affecting all cellular functions and communications throughout the body. In this article, we will explore the effects of fatty acids, particularly essential fatty acids (EFAs), and their relation to health. Essential Fatty Acids EFAs are […]
Brewing Wellness: The Power of Herbal Infusions
Herbal infusions are a great way to extract the medicinal properties of dried herbs. Unlike tea, they are made using larger amounts of herbs and steeped in an air-tight container for at least several hours, resulting in a more potent water-based preparation. They can be consumed as a drink or used externally for skin washes, […]
Beyond Antioxidants: Exploring New Approaches to Oxidative Stress
Like an apple turns brown when exposed to air, our cells can “rust” when we breathe due to oxidative stress, a process caused by free radicals. Free radicals are unstable molecules that damage or “oxidize” cells throughout the body in a process called oxidative stress. Over time, oxidative stress can leave our cells and tissues […]
Health and Wellness Trends to Shape 2023
During the pandemic, we have all become more careful with our everyday choices and long-term health decisions. Naturally, this tendency and greater awareness have shaped the health and wellness trends to arise over the past several years. Naturally, 2023 will be the culmination of our need to take better care of ourselves, mentally as well […]
Get Started on Your 2023 Resolutions
Bring your body into balance with our proven detox program, GDRx. True health is when your body is in balance, operating at peak performance, and healing naturally as much as possible. Many factors in our modern world can interfere with the body’s innate ability to heal itself, including toxins and waste products that can enter […]
5 Healthy and Sustainable Ways to Build a Positive Body Image
We live in difficult, confusing times. On the one hand, you’re supposed to love yourself no matter what, but the “what” is clearly working against you, embodied by the media and the social media that can oftentimes completely skew our perception of beauty or what it truly means to love the person in the mirror. […]
Creating Flexibility in Times of Change
One of life’s guarantees is that things change. We can’t avoid it. It’s a fact. But how we respond to it can make all the difference in our lives.Do you find yourself these days shaking your head in disbelief at how our daily lives have changed in just a few short months? I do, and […]
Why Take Supplements
Why Take Supplements? It’s a common question that arises from time to time in patient’s minds, primarily if one hasn’t used them before. In the preventative Integrative Medicine model that I follow in this practice, supplements of herbs, vitamins, minerals, and glandulars are commonly used to support the body’s system to help maintain an […]
Boosting Health and Well-Being through the Holidays
Once again, fall has been spectacular in Northern California. I’ve enjoyed the vibrant colors as I have driven thru the picturesque countryside we have all around us. A lot to be grateful for in living here and I hope you have enjoyed it, too. As the calendar is turning towards the holidays, I thought […]
Welcoming the Abundant Harvest
For the past month I have enjoyed the delicious taste of some fantastic locally grown heirloom tomatoes. They are so flavorful, reminding me of the ones my father raised when I was growing up. One slice of his tomato would cover the entire piece of bread! To me, few things beat the taste of a […]
How Do You Embrace Change?
One of life’s guarantees is that things change. We can’t avoid it. It’s a fact. But how we respond to it can make all the difference in our lives. In talking with a friend recently, he was sharing how he had avoided a change in career focus for years because it would take too much time […]
Creating Optimal Health – Body, Mind and Spirit – Case Study
This last week I was speaking with a patient whose tests showed that her adrenal glands are poorly supporting her, leading to fatigue, anxiety, and insomnia among other symptoms. The adrenals are a major foundational hormonal system that is worn down by on-going stress. They then affect all other hormonal systems by dragging them […]
Integrative Medicine
This specialty has been around with many different names for decades but has come into general public awareness only within the past 5 years or so. It reflects a change from “disease care” to “health care” which is a wonderful development with enormous potential for improving our health and well-being on a global scale. As […]
Is What You’re Doing Working For You?
Seems that we all have different ways of approaching a New Year and that is probably good. But I really like Dr. Phil’s typical question, “Is it working for you?” That really gets to the heart of our lives and what we are creating. As you look over the past year and where you are […]
The Journey to Balance
In my early forties, plagued by the stress of being a business woman, raising 2 teens, and facing my own health issues, I came face to face with the reality of being at a serious low point in my life. Nothing was working right. I was in physical pain, emotional trauma, and unrelenting stress with […]