Keys To Calm In Your Luteal Phase
Last time, in part 3 of our 4-part series, we discussed how to optimize the Ovulatory Phase of the menstrual cycle. Today we’ll be breaking down how you can encourage a healthy and balanced luteal phase to feel your best in the week or so leading up to your period…
Optimizing Your Ovulatory Phase
In our last blog, we talked all about optimizing the follicular phase, where the ovaries have been preparing an egg for ovulation. Following the follicular phase, we have the ovulatory phase, which typically occurs around days 13-15…
How to Nourish & Move Your Body For Easier Periods
The menstrual cycle is a natural and intricate biological process that occurs in the female body, typically lasting around 28 days. It involves the monthly release of an egg from the ovaries, and if fertilization does not occur, the shedding of the uterine lining, resulting in menstruation. There is much more significance to the menstrual cycle beyond reproduction and it impacts everything from energy levels to creativity, motivation, mental and physical health and overall well-being.
Create Your 2024 Holistic Wellness Plan
Happy New Year!
Going into a new year, it can feel both exciting and overwhelming as you set new goals, create new habits and develop healthy routines. In 2024, prioritizing our well-being has never been more crucial. In this blog post, we'll explore a step-by-step guide to creating your wellness plan for 2024, ensuring not only physical health but also mental and emotional balance…
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!
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.
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…
8 Steps to Start Balancing Your Hormones for Weight Loss
There are many things you can do naturally to support your hormones in order to lose weight. First we want to build a healthy foundation. Building a healthy foundation consists of making certain nutritional and lifestyle changes, then we can build upon it with more targeted, specific nutrients, supplements that are specific to your body and needs.
5 Ways to Avoid Holiday Burnout
Holiday “Burn-Out” can occur for many reasons. The most common ones being stress, whether from doing too much, family situations or physical stress on our bodies from too many Christmas treats or lack of sleep. If you’re someone who’s been working hard at healing…
7 Necessary Nutrients for Thyroid Health
There are a lot of things that can interfere with the function of the thyroid gland, causing it to become over or more commonly, underactive. Some of those include…
Should You Go Plant-Based for Better Thyroid Function?
Before you decide to go plant-based for thyroid health, consider what you’ll be missing out on if you decide to eliminate meat. Additionally, this article will touch on some of the potential issues that can occur with plant-based diets and thyroid health.
3 Essential Tips for Lowering Inflammation
Inflammation is at the root of nearly all chronic disease. From heart disease and diabetes, to anxiety and depression, to hormonal imbalances, digestive issues, fatigue and poor immune function…
Top 10 Foods to Fight Inflammation
Inflammation is often a silent, but extremely important factor in the development of chronic disease. Inflammation promotes dis-ease of all kinds, including weight gain, bloating, pain, fatigue, arthritis, anxiety, depression…
4 Healthy Drinks You’ll Love This Summer!
Summer is here and we’re super excited too! It can be easy to overindulge in sweets and sweet drinks over the summer, including alcohol. While I do think it’s important to enjoy these warmer months, we also don’t want to throw our healthy living completely out the window!
6 Ways to Balance Your Mood With Food
Not enough attention is given to the power that food has to regulate our mood and support mental health. You have so much power over your mind and learning to balance mood by addressing what’s at the end of your fork is a fantastic place to start!
How to Restore Balance with Functional Medicine
Your body is always fighting for you.
I know it often seems like it's fighting against you, but it's really not. It's working hard around the clock to bring you back into balance. It's a term called homeostasis, which is "any self-regulating process by which biological systems tend to maintain stability, while adjusting to conditions that are optimal for survival."
7 Tips For a Gut-Friendly Christmas
It’s tempting to let your nutrition plan become non-existent for a few weeks in December and “start over” in January. But you will feel SO much better if you continue eating well throughout the rest of the month. It also won’t feel as daunting next month when you “re-start” your healthy lifestyle. After all, it’s called a lifestyle for a reason, it’s not something you turn on and off!
Is the Impossible Burger Impossibly Toxic?
Have you ever tried the famous “Impossible Burger”? Touted as a healthy, plant-based alternative with a meaty flavour due to their unique “Heme”, the “Impossible Burger” is just about the farthest thing from a “health food” as you can get…
Are You Eating Harmful Fats?
Fats are needed in our diet for many reasons, including building cell membranes and hormones, supporting brain health, vitamin and mineral absorption and some even help lower cholesterol. There is a massive difference between a healthy, cold-pressed olive oil and the trans-fats found in packaged cookies or fries. Not all fats are created equal and eating the wrong type can be detrimental to our health and promote aging…
Why You Should Practice Seed Cycling for Hormonal Balance + Recipe!
Seed cycling is an effective and relatively inexpensive nutritional therapy that makes a great addition to your hormone-balancing protocol. As women, we experience natural fluctuations in our hormones throughout the month and have different nutritional, physical and psychological requirements and desires depending on the time of the month. Before we dive into how to do seed cycling, let’s talk about the different phases of our cycle…