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Boost Kids and Family Immune System with Essential Oils

October 19, 2017 in Essential Oils 0

This second half of the series will discuss two essential components to keeping your kids and family healthy all year long – exercise and immune support. Though they might not seem to go together, they are part of the four pillars that will create a solid foundation for your family – sleep, nutrition, exercise, and immune support. Find tips and recipes throughout this blog to support your family throughout the year, through the ups and downs and countless exposure to bugs and yuck that attack at will. Get them moving and keep them supported, mamas!

Healthy All Year Long : Kids & Family Part 1

October 19, 2017 in Essential Oils, Women’s Health 0

Keeping your family healthy all year long is no easy task! Everyone has his or her own quirks and habits, making control an impossible feat. What I CAN promise you, though, is Positive Prevention that will boost the immune system in the process. So, let’s take this first by the forest – tips you can use all year long, and then the trees – specifics under each topic that you can employ immediately for sustained results. In the first half of this series, we will discuss the essentials of proper and restful sleep as well as balanced nutrition for even the pickiest eaters. Keeping those bodies rested and fueled is the best offense against any threats that may come along throughout the year.

5 Benefits of Eating a Gluten Free Diet

October 13, 2017 in Exercise, Nutrition, Women’s Health 0

Every last one of us wants to look and feel our best, and we’ve all likely tried a laundry list of techniques to stay healthy, manage weight and feel great every day. If your metabolism isn’t functioning optimally, you simply won’t have the means to do this. Maybe you’ve tried diets, exercise regimens, or even weight loss pills to no avail. None of these will be of any benefit if the metabolic processes and hormones aren’t functioning as they were meant to. As a functional practitioner, my goal is to address the root cause of issues rather than symptoms. So rather than trying to achieve a goal being focused on the result, let’s focus on the root metabolic issues. I am not going to recommend a particular diet or a single exercise routine. Instead, I want to focus on concepts that you can incorporate into your daily routine, and compliment your other healthy habits, for long-term, sustainable solutions to improve how you look and feel. Let’s take a look at 5 of the best ways we can all master our metabolism, without turning to quick fixes or synthetic solutions.

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Top 3 Ways to Naturally Increase Low Progesterone Levels

September 20, 2017 in Women’s Health, Women’s Hormones 1

When your body is experiencing hormonal imbalance, it can be very easy to feel like your entire life is out of balance. One critical part of feeling (and looking!) your best, is to make sure that your hormone levels are in agreement with one another for the stage of life that you are in.

5 Steps to Breaking Up With Sugar

July 17, 2017 in Nutrition, Women’s Health 0

Did you know that eating sugar causes the brain to release dopamine, the same neurotransmitter that spikes when you are doing cocaine? Yup. Picks you waaaaay up, hangs you momentarily, then sledgehammers you back into a negative reality where you simply crave more sugar. Even though we, as a society, has more of a harmful effect on children, we are naively unaware that the only reason we don’t recognize “sugar comas” or “sugar highs” in ourselves is because our bodies have become so accustomed to the side effects that we don’t acknowledge there to be a problem. All of the consistent sugar usage of our youth have turned us into an adulthood of sugar zombies.

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