I'm so excited Carrie is sharing her powerful story of healing with my reader's today. After receiving a diagnosis of Hashimoto’s Thyroid Disease, she took matters into her own hands. She used healthy food, natural supplements and essential oils to help her recover. As with any disease, it's important to remember to not simply band-aid the symptoms with medication. Instead, it is critical to address the underlying cause by using ...
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How Eating More Fat Will Reduce Your Stress & Improve Your Libido
It should not come as a surprise that the current environment in which most of us live or work is stressful! Whether it is financial stress, the stress of caring for an ill family member, the demands of parenting, or high expectations placed upon us from our work place, we consistently are in a "fight or flight" mode. Ultimately, this contributes to poor physical and mental health. I have always prided myself on handling stress fairly ...
Healthy Halloween Tips
Is there any possibility that we can skip past October 31st and pretend like Halloween never happened? Call me bahumbug, but it really is my least favorite day of the year! Maybe it's the creepiness, my distaste for dressing up, the extra effort it all requires, or the toxic handfuls of "treats" passed out to small children. Either way, now that I do have young children and they think Halloween is fun, I have no choice. If you know ...
Let’s Starve the Cancer
If I wanted to kill something, I would starve it and stop feeding it. I would figure out the least violent path with a 100% guarantee that it would die. Seriously, it isn't rocket science that a person can only go without food and water so long before they eventually shrivel up and die, right? So, when your baby gets cancer, you begin racking your brain, thumbing through research, sleep less and read more...until all of the sudden ...
The Ketogenic Diet & Where to Begin
The Ketogenic Diet is a high fat, adequate protein and low-carbohydrate diet that forces the body to burn fats rather than carbohydrates. Typically, carbohydrates contained in food are converted into glucose, which is then transported around the body. However, if there is very little carbohydrates in the diet, the liver will convert fat into fatty acids and ketone bodies. Cancer is an obligate glucose metabolizer. A person's normal cells ...
