The first week of May is Naturopathic Awareness Week. It’s also the National Allergy Awareness Week and a perfect occasion to talk about natural ways you can reduce your seasonal allergy symptoms and eventually eliminate them altogether. Yes, it IS possible! Many of you noticed the return of your allergy symptoms (argh!) with the first [...]
One of the most common complaints that I hear from patients is being too busy to take care of their health. Busy has become one of the major obstacles to taking responsibility for our health. We even wear our busy like a badge of honor: “I am so busy I don’t even have time to [...]
Many years ago during our hunting and gathering stage of civilization, we spent our days walking across the land foraging for vegetable matter and hunting animals. Most of our days would have been spent at some level of activity. No one was lifting weights or running laps in fact I doubt the word exercise was [...]
Introducing solids is a very important step in the health of a child. Usually, this is done at a certain time recommended by your health care practitioner and usually includes rice cereals. There is a better way to start your child on solids. I will go through a very common sense approach to optimize your [...]
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver is a beautiful and heart warming true story about a family who decides to move from dry Arizona to the fertile lands of Appalachia. Over the course of the book, we follow the family’s eating habits as they commit to growing all the food they eat. As each season [...]
First of all, if you have decided your beverage of choice is water over juice, pop, and coffee then congratulations. You have made a major step up river in your health. The first goal is to drink water. The second goal is to drink enough water. Focus on this first. Once you are comfortable drinking the amount of water [...]
