Staying Cool With Veggies

Staying Cool With Veggies

If there is a good time to get more vegetables into your diet, the high heat of summer is it! Eating vegetables helps regulate your body temperature. If you eat meat, then you may be familiar with ‘meat sweats.’ Add beer at a BBQ, and that could be an additional...
Is It The Answer To Summer Weight Loss?

Is It The Answer To Summer Weight Loss?

Whenever a fad medicine comes out, my health antennas go up. Why? Because I want to know the efficacy and the potential side effects. More importantly, is there a natural option to the medication that may be overall more beneficial without side effects? When it comes...
Herbs To Detox And Cleanse Your Body

Herbs To Detox And Cleanse Your Body

Springtime – the ultimate time of year to detox – or is it? As a Naturopathic Doctor, nature is the foundation of how I help patients heal. Nature cure is all around us! Nature nourishes us and relaxes our nervous system. We should treasure mother nature...
Ease Your Body Into Spring with Stretching

Ease Your Body Into Spring with Stretching

Stretching has so many health benefits, but it depends on how you stretch and when you stretch that matters.  Think of your muscle fibers like rubber bands.  You don’t want to pull on a rubberband when it’s cold and rigid because they have less elasticity and will...
Love the Skin You’re In

Love the Skin You’re In

It matters what you put on and in your body. That glow and twinkle in your eye comes from deep within yourself at the cellular layer. Our organs radiate the essence of our overall health. Did you know that your skin is your largest organ? Because of this, our skin...
Support System & Your Health

Support System & Your Health

Get the new year started by investing in yourself. Did you know that feeling supported by people you trust and love fosters good health? Some of us are lucky by having genuinely good relationships with family members that live close by that foster growth both...
Is it Possible to Eat Healthy for the Holidays?

Is it Possible to Eat Healthy for the Holidays?

The more you eat with the seasons and focus on nutritious, whole foods, the more your body naturally moves away from “bad” foods. Why do we consume foods filled with chemicals and then try to detox ourselves afterward? If we nourished our organs properly, our bodies...
Supporting Your Lymphatic System

Supporting Your Lymphatic System

One of the most important and underrated systems of our body for immune support, proper circulation of the cardiovascular system, and preventative care is our lymphatic system. I consider it the forgotten system in our medical world—but not here in my practice! I have...
Being Smart About Your Sunscreen

Being Smart About Your Sunscreen

What we put on our skin is just as important as what we put into our bodies. Topical products, including sunscreens, are absorbed systemically–entering the bloodstream and traveling to tissues and organs. Spray sunscreens pose an additional risk of inhalation, making...