7 Holistic Tips for Stress & Hormone Balance For The Festive Season
Christmas festivities are in full swing and the last thing that’s likely on your mind is eating mindfully and healthfully right now. Don’t worry, we’ve got some ideas to help bring some balance this season, specifically when it comes to food and your hormones…
Symptoms of Gluten Sensitivity + Tips for Going Gluten-Free
Following a gluten-free diet is extremely popular as more and more people discover they feel significantly better avoiding gluten. Gluten can cause a variety of digestive-related symptoms, as well as systemic symptoms. In this article, we’ll discuss why you may want to consider going gluten-free and how to best go about…
Could Going Gluten-Free Help Your Thyroid?
If you suspect that you may be dealing with a thyroid issue, whether it's hypothyroidism (an underactive thyroid) or hyperthyroidism (an overactive thyroid), it is essential to recognize the significant role that diet can play in your recovery…
Why You Need to Fix Your Gut for Optimal Energy
The vast majority of people are turning to substances like caffeine, sugar and energy drinks for an energy boost, but are completely missing the real reason they’re exhausted all the time…
How to Enhance Your Sleep Through Regulating Your Circadian Rhythms
Our bodies run on 24 hour cycles called circadian rhythms. While you may be familiar with how our circadian rhythms affect the sleep-wake cycle, they impact much more than sleep, including mood, energy and hormones, such as melatonin, cortisol, insulin and testosterone. Today we’ll be touching on ways we can begin optimizing sleep through regulating our circadian rhythms with light, nutrition, meal timing, gut health and more!
How Inflammation Fuels Hormonal Imbalances + Our Top 10 Anti-Inflammatory Foods!
Inflammation is at the root of nearly every disease process. It contributes to hormonal imbalances, such as HPA-axis dysfunction, hypothyroidism, infertility, PCOS, irregular periods, as well as PMS and menopausal symptoms. The good news? There’s a lot you can do to bring inflammation down!
9 Ways to Boost Your Little One’s Immune System This Fall
Colds and flus on rotation this month? Optimize your child’s immune system with the right foods and supplements! While it’s no fun getting sick, it’s also important to remember that being exposed to different bugs help to train the immune system to fight back better next time; that’s the adaptive immune system doing its job! That being said, there are ways you can support it so they get back to full health fast
How to Optimize Your Defence Against Colds & Flus This Fall
Fall is such a beautiful time of year! It can also come with some unwelcome colds and flus. Fortunately, nature provides us with an array of natural tools we can use to fortify our immune systems. While creating a healthy, robust immune system is a year-round job, let’s discuss some ways we can support it going into the cooler months.
3 Key Roles of the Liver for Women's Hormonal Health
The human body is a complex and intricate network of systems, each playing a crucial role in maintaining overall health and well-being. Among these, the liver stands out as a powerhouse organ, responsible for a myriad of functions, including metabolism, detoxification, and hormonal balance. In this blog post, we'll delve into the fascinating connection between the liver and women's hormones…
Easy Nutritional Ways to Support Elimination for Healthy Hormones
If you’ve been trying everything to balance your hormones, have more energy, improve your mood and feel balanced, but you haven’t addressed your gut health, you’re missing a huge piece of the puzzle. You can’t have healthy hormones without a healthy microbiome, good nutrition and efficient elimination…
5 Strategies for Effectively Eradicating Candida
Candida albicans, a fungus, is the most common form of candida overgrowth in the gut. It can lead to numerous symptoms within the gut and systemically, such as gas, bloating, constipation, brain fog, skin problems, immune system dysfunction, thyroid issues and more. Today we’re going to cover how you can begin to rebalance your gut and clear candida overgrowth holistically…
Candida: Signs, Symptoms & Surprising Root Causes
Candida overgrowth can occur for many reasons, but ultimately, it happens when the microbes in the gut shift in an unhealthy direction. This is extremely common due to the use of antibiotics, birth control pills, NSAIDs and the Standard American Diet high in sugar, processed foods and even tap water. When the immune system is suppressed for any reason…
You're Not Running the Right Thyroid Tests
Hypothyroidism, which is characterized by an underactive thyroid gland, can have a significant impact on how you feel and function. While hypothyroidism can occur in both men and women, it’s more likely to be present if you’re a women. In this article, we’ll discuss common symptoms of hypothyroidism, why hypothyroidism is frequently missed by conventional tests…
3 Ways Stress Impacts Fertility
Stress is a commonly overlooked area that has a major affect on fertility. If you’ve simply been told to reduce stress, or that your issues are “all in your head”, that’s not what I’m saying here. But how we react and respond to stress does significantly impact our hormones…
Don’t Skip These Key Fertility Foods
Food has the ability to support every function in our bodies at the cellular level, including fertility and reproduction. Certain nutrients are not just important for fertility, but necessary for healthy, thriving hormones. Food has the power to drive the inflammatory process…
Don’t Make These 5 Common Gut-Healing Mistakes
If you’ve been trying to fix your gut issues on your own, without the support of a practitioner, and you’re feeling stuck, you’re likely making some key mistakes. Keep reading to learn about the 5 common mistakes we see our clients make when starting their gut-healing journey…
How Your Gut Influences Stress and Anxiety
Inside our digestive system lives trillions of nerves. This network of nerves is called the “enteric nervous system” and it has a major impact on how your brain functions. However, when the nervous system is always kicked into overdrive from stress, this can be a main contributor to gut issues, and vice versa…
5 Surprising Affects of Constipation
It’s common to think that being constipated only affects your ability to eliminate waste, makes your gut feel unwell or contributes to bloating. In reality, the affects of constipation and not having healthy, regular bowel movements go far beyond…
Is Fibre Really Good For Gut Health?
This topic is continually debated about, so if you’re confused about fibre and whether or not it really is good for your gut, you’re not alone. We know from research that fibre is very important for a healthy microbiome, but “just eat more fibre” is NOT the answer to gut problems like constipation or bloating…
Is Gut Dysbiosis Creating Hormonal Chaos?
If you’ve been dealing with symptoms like painful, heavy or irregular periods, mood swings, hormonal acne, PCOS, endometriosis, bloating and weight gain, there’s a good chance you’re dealing with gut dysbiosis and estrogen dominance…