Posts Tagged ‘brain health’
How To Survive The Holidays Without Sacrificing Your Health
How To Survive The Holidays Without Sacrificing Your Health When are you most likely to gain weight, get bloated, feel completely unproductive, and generally lift all your rules and forget all your good habits? The holidays, of course. No matter where my patients are from, whether I am coaching them locally in Pittsburgh or on…
Read MoreDeclutter Your Life + Inspire Your Overall Wellness With These Self-Care Tips
Declutter Your Life + Inspire Your Overall Wellness With These Self-Care Tips Rituals are a part of human history. Ancient people – even our grandparents – honored the sacred to give our lives more meaning and keep our minds focused on something higher than ourselves, whatever that meant to the individual. Life was slower and…
Read MoreSigns You Need To Detox + How To Live A Toxin-Free Life
Signs You Need To Detox + How To Live A Toxin-Free Life It’s a polluted world, and the dangerous impact has been revealed: Research is starting to show (1) the link between our increased toxin exposure and autoimmune conditions. Normally, the body does an excellent job at eliminating toxins to keep us healthy and thriving—in fact, we…
Read MoreThe Most Effective Ways To Manage & Reduce Stress In Your Life
The Most Effective Ways To Manage & Reduce Stress In Your Life Imagine you were a visitor to our culture from another world. One of the first things you might notice is the ubiquity of chronic stress. You might well believe, from even a cursory observation of our busy, modern lives, that being stressed, anxious,…
Read MoreHow To Cultivate A Bedtime Routine For Restful Sleep Every Night
How To Cultivate A Bedtime Routine For Restful Sleep Every Night Whether you’re a night owl or morning person, we all have different routines that can affect our sleep patterns. With sleep taking up about one third of every day, it’s a pretty important aspect of life and health. One thing I think we can…
Read MoreThe Most Common Wellness Mistakes Even The Healthiest People Make
The Most Common Wellness Mistakes Even The Healthiest People Make A lot of my patients practice good health habits. They don’t eat much junk food, they avoid artificial sweeteners, they exercise….and yet, they still have health issues they can’t seem to get ahead of. They’ve already tried all the obvious moves, but they have underlying…
Read More19 Signs You’re Achieving Optimal Health
19 Milestones To Achieving Optimal Health How would you rate your own health? Most people rate their health as “pretty good” – even the ones coming to see me. And yet, when I dig a little deeper, asking about medications and symptoms, sleep quality and energy level and mood, I find that many of them…
Read MoreIt’s Not Just One Thing Making You Sick: Here’s Why That’s A Good Thing
It’s Not Just One Thing Making You Sick: Here’s Why That’s A Good Thing People don’t come to see me because they are feeling great. They come to see me, in my capacity as a functional medicine practitioner, because something is wrong. They have a particular health issue, or multiple issues, or just a general feeling…
Read MoreYour Definitive Functional Medicine Guide To Intermittent Fasting
Intermittent fasting guides & meal plans, for beginners, intermediates, & advanced. Benefits of intermittent fasting & how it affects your hormones.
Read MoreThe 9 Genes That Can Determine Your Health
The 9 Genes That Can Determine Your Health Your genetics influence almost every aspect of your health. Everything from your weight, mood, hormones, and immune system can be traced back to your DNA. As humans we want to know as much about ourselves as possible and because of this the demand for direct-to-consumer genetic testing…
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