Category: Featured
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Herbal Health From the Ground Up
If your mind has been thinking of spring and its promise of growing plants, you aren’t alone. Over half of the average American households do gardening activities while another 20% are planning on doing so soon. It’s also estimated that COVID created 18.3 million more American gardeners. The majority of these gardeners are growing edible…
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Winter Got You Down? What you Need to Know About Seasonal Affective Disorder
Changing seasons are inevitable. For some people, the change in weather can usher in a lower mood, while others ride through the cooler months of the year with mental ease. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is not an uncommon event. It’s estimated that millions of Americans experience SAD every year, though many may not even know…
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Heart Health: Coronary Calcium Score
Heart disease kills an estimated 17.9 million people globally each year, accounting for an estimated 32% of all deaths in 2019. Additionally, 38% of premature deaths, meaning deaths that occur in people under age 70, were due to heart disease in 2019. With this in mind, it’s important to protect your heart by improving your…
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Feng Shui: 6 Ways to Organize in the New Year
Another year has passed, and as usual, New Year’s resolutions are a popular practice. Whether it be eating better, exercising, making more time to take care of one’s health, etc., it’s important to take some time to focus on yourself during these quieter winter months. Part of this focus can be on organizing and optimizing…
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Lyme Disease Recovery: A Holistic Approach
Known as a tick-borne illness, Lyme disease affects 300,000 people in the United States with as many as 30,000 new cases reported annually. The debilitating symptoms of Lyme disease can significantly reduce a person’s capacity to work and care for themselves and loved ones. Lyme disease is considered one of the most complex bacterial infections…
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The Healing Power of Sound: The Solfeggio Frequencies
We’ve all experienced moments with music that has evoked memories, inspired creativity and celebration, shifted mood, and enhanced motivation and focus. Most of us have also been affected by music while watching a movie–our heart beats racing with the action. People have long been fascinated by these effects of music. From ancient times to modern…
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Wilderness Therapy: An Effective Option for Teens and Young Adults in Crisis
With greater attention on mental health and emotional wellbeing in recent years, more people are seeking therapy or counseling to deal with life’s ups and downs. In some situations, traditional approaches may not be enough to help a person find their way out of a dark time. The remarkable effects of wilderness therapy programs have…
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Kids & Their Devices: Healthier Ways to Manage Screen Time
Adults and kids alike are spending as much as 50 percent more time using digital devices than they did two years ago. In our pandemic-altered digital reality, kids and teens have been most affected by the lure of the screen spending several hours a day using devices for school, socializing, and gaming. While it is…
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Cannabinoids: What Inquiring Minds Need to Know
The buzz around cannabinoid (CBD) may have you wondering if a CBD product could be effective for your health concerns. To make sense of the emerging claims around CBD products, it helps to know how these products are sourced, what the active ingredients are, and how they function in the body. The Cannabinoid Alphabet: What’s…
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Understanding Pyrrole Disorder
One of the essential principles of natural medicine is that the symptoms of illness manifest as a result of underlying or “root” causes. By this, we mean that there is an imbalance in the body which consequently produces symptoms. If we only treat symptoms, as does the conventional approach, then we fail to address the…