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Your Guide to Medical Weight Loss: What You Need to Know
Navigating the journey of weight loss and blood sugar management can feel like an uphill battle for many. If you’ve tried everything from fad diets to intense workout regimens with little success, or if those stubborn post-baby pounds just won’t budge, medications...
Digestion From Top To Bottom
Digestion is an intricate, highly coordinated process that breaks down the food we eat into nutrients, which the body uses for energy, growth, and cell repair. Understanding this journey from ingestion to excretion can provide insights into optimizing digestive...
From Stuck to Smooth: Strategies for Overcoming Constipation
When the going gets hard, we experience constipation. Although it’s not a fun subject, it’s one of the most common gastrointestinal complaints seen in healthcare practices. We may all experience constipation at some point in time, and certain conditions make it more...
Stop Inflamm-Aging In Its Tracks
Aging is an inevitable process that everyone eventually faces. While we cannot halt the progression of time, we can mitigate its effects on our bodies by reducing inflammation. Research suggests that inflammation is a strong contributor to many age-related...
Autoimmune Disease: Genetics vs. Environment
Research shows that autoimmune diseases are on the rise, yet there is still a great deal that we don’t know about their immunological basis. While most scientists point to both genetic and environmental factors as potential causes, much uncertainty remains. Autoimmune...
Eating for Longevity: What You Need To Know
The internet is jam-packed with nutrition information - much of it contradictory, some of it confusing, and a lot of it hard to follow. It can be difficult to know the best approach, but studies show that we may have uncovered a framework for longevity based on...
Balancing Screen Time for Optimal Health
In today’s increasingly online world, electronics play a huge role in our everyday lives. From Zoom meetings to scrolling through news and social media feeds, the average North American spends around 6 hours looking at a screen per day! However, excessive screen time...
Understanding and Addressing Low Estrogen Levels
The hormone estrogen plays an important role in many aspects of your health, from energy levels to cholesterol, mood to bone strength, and much more. Because of its broad range of functions in your body, declining estrogen levels can have a profound impact on your...
Detoxify Your Home: Tips for Natural Spring Cleaning
With spring in the air, now is the perfect time to give your home a refresh. However, the last thing we want to do is to load our homes and bodies with the toxic chemicals found in so many conventional cleaning products!If you are motivated to clean and declutter this...
Don’t Let Age-Related Hormone Changes Slow You Down
At every stage of life, your hormones play an important role in controlling what happens in your body. Hormone levels have a profound impact on your health, and many physiologic functions require a delicate balance when it comes to hormone levels.But, it’s said that...