Naturopath News and Updates
Why Smoothies Are Great for Kids: 5 Benefits and Healthy Recipes
From picky eaters to nutrient boosts, here are 5 reasons to feed your kids smoothies—plus quick and tasty recipes!
Treating Perioral Dermatitis Naturally
The vast majority of cases of facial dermatitis are linked to external environmental exposures or topical irritants that trigger an inflammatory response around hair follicles in the perioral, nasal, or periocular areas. Learn about environmental triggers and internal imbalances that can trigger facial dermatitis in adults and children.
Swollen Tonsils and Adenoids in Kids
Learn about the natural causes of swollen adenoids and tonsils including blocked sinuses, blocked ears, allergies, tongue tie, high fat and high acid foods.
Do I have high stomach acid or GERD?
Both high stomach acid and GERD may present in a similar way, it makes sense to be aware of the factors that cause both conditions and make dietary and lifestyle changes that heal both conditions
Where is Cholesterol Found in My Diet?
If you have high cholesterol and are not seeing a reduction in cholesterol through the Mediterranean Diet, it may be time to focus on reducing high cholesterol foods by using a macronutrient tracking app and keeping cholesterol below 200-300mg per day.
What does ‘low AMH’ mean for my fertility?
What does AMH mean for my fertility? AMH or ‘Anti-Müllerian Hormone’ is tested clinically as part of a fertility work-up. Levels below normal ‘may’ reflect low ovarian reserve and levels above normal reflect polycystic ovaries. AMH levels peak at age 25 and then slowly decline until menopause.
Building Blood in Women and Children
‘Blood Deficiency’, involves so much more than iron deficiency. There is a team of blood building micro and macro nutrients that includes iron, folic acid, vitamin B12, copper, manganese, vitamin D, vitamin A and protein. Common symptoms can be fatigue, poor memory, difficulty falling sleeping, vivid or disruptive dreams, headache, palpitations, blurred vision, dry eyes, dry skin, paleness, depression, anxiety, dizziness, numbness/tingling of limbs, scanty periods, amenorrhea and infertility. This particularly affects women and children.
The Milk Controversy
Learn about the long term impact of cow dairy consumption.
Calcium: To Supplement, Or Not To Supplement
This article will help you understand why calcium is important, where to find calcium in food, and how to supplement calcium if needed.
Why Your Fertility App is Likely Wrong
Hundreds of thousands of women world-wide use menstrual tracking apps to predict fertile days and to prevent pregnancy. These apps are great for tracking the monthly cycle and have provided valuable data for understanding menstrual cycles in real-world women. But they are not great at predicting fertile days.
Lifestyle Factors in Male Infertility
If you are like many couples, looking for ways to optimize fertility by increasing sperm count, motility and shape - there is a lot you can do naturally!
Fertility Prep: When to Begin?
A little preparation can go a long way! But the actual length of preparation depends on each individual’s health. The question of when to begin is best answered in a naturopathic visit but here is a general guideline I use when making recommendations.
Libido & Fertility
If low–to-no sex drive is an issue for you, natural therapies can be a great place to start bringing your sex drive back on-line. Naturopathic treatment of low libido for women focuses on 4 main areas: lifestyle, nutrition, hormonal balance & emotional balance.
How Long Does It Take To Heal?
In most cases of ‘dis-ease’ the body spiralled into an unhealthy balance. Just as surely, the body needs time to spiral back into a health balance. So the answer to this question is that natural healing takes time and it depends on what needs mending.
Thyroid Health After Birth
You are a new mom, a few months past birth, and things don’t feel quite right. Sure, you are tired from sleepless nights, breastfeeding and balancing responsibilities of being a mom and a person BUT something still doesn’t feel right! You are experiencing anxiety, insomnia, fast heart rate, fatigue, weight loss, and irritability. Or you are experiencing absolute exhaustion, weight gain (not the loss expected after a few months), constipation, dry skin, and depression. You might have wondered if you suffer from postpartum depression or if this is just life as a mom.
Natural Causes of Night Sweats
If you are waking up soaked at night, you are not alone. For women, a night sweat triggers thoughts of menopause but hold up! There is more to night sweats than dropping hormones and this affects people of all ages and genders.
The Acne Sugar Detox Diet
Thinking about a detox to clear up acne? Learn about how a sugar detox can clear up troubled skin.
Ravings About Cravings
Your food cravings are screaming at you to listen. What are they saying?
Food for Thought: How to combat emotional eating WITH food
Learn to control cravings by HOW you eat instead of restricting food.
Food For Focus & Concentration
How can parents help their children to balance excitement with focus as the school year approaches?
Transition Your Nutrition with the September Equinox
‘The earth element regulates our ‘centre’…. That which is constant from where it harmonizes the effects of the four seasons’ (Inner Classic)