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Holistic Health Blogs
Our holistic health blogs feature tips on how you can use natural medicine, practices, and remedies in your everyday life.
If you’re looking for more information on how to integrate naturopathic medicine, or holistic health practices into your routine, read from one of our many blogs below. If you have specific questions about your health, contact us today.
Why Plant-Based?
A plant-based diet has been shown to reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease. What does plant-based mean? It means 2/3 of your meals are mostly vegetables, whole grains, legumes, and fruits. The remaining 1/3 can be a lean protein like fish or chicken or a plant...
What’s the Difference Between a Dietitian and a Nutritionist?
People ask me all the time to explain the difference between a Dietitian and a Nutritionist: Dietitians, also known as Registered Dietitians (RD) or Registered Dietitian Nutritionists (RDN), are food and nutrition experts qualified to assess, diagnose, and treat...
Foods that Boost the Immune System
Although you can’t immediately boost your immune system with supplements, green juice, and turmeric, there are benefits of vitamins and minerals for immune health that require some time to build up. The variety of fruits and vegetables you eat today are a long-term...
Get Fired Up About Safe & Healthy Summer Grilling
Grilling can be an easy way to entertain with friends and family in the summer months. Being mindful about grilling can ensure a nutritionally balanced meal that will protect your health. Without being careful, grilling creates opportunities for cancer-causing...
Plant-Based Summer Grilling
The beginning of summer brings the unofficial start of grilling season. For some vegetarians and vegans, this can mean the same boring celery and carrot sticks, green salads, or chips and dip; barbecues don't have to be boring for those who don't eat meat. Classic...
The Ugly Truth: Carcinogens In Cosmetics
Cosmetics are defined by their intended use in the United States, via the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act as “articles intended to be rubbed, poured, sprinkled, or sprayed on, introduced into, or otherwise applied to the human body for cleansing, beautifying,...
Changing the Way Patients Think About “Health Care”
While attending medical school in the Wild West it becomes readily apparent that health care in the western part of this country is much more prevention oriented than here on the East Coast. Of the 7 Naturopathic Medical Colleges in the entire United States and...
Integrating All the Alternatives in Medicine
The time for truly integrated medical practices has come. Places where the health care gets back to being about the patient and not about the profits. A medical community that emphasizes prevention, uses many modalities, first using least invasive of medical...
Massage Therapy
Massage Therapy is one of the best things you can do for your total well-being. There are numerous health benefits of getting a massage. Massage Therapy is one of the most effective and natural ways to treat ailments from the physical to the emotional. It can also...