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."
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…
6 Incredible Superfoods for Balanced Hormones
At Winnipeg Nutrition, we firmly believe that food is medicine. Nature provides the most amazing tools to help us heal and stay balanced - that includes our hormones too! Here are some superfoods to add to your healthy diet for more balanced hormones…
Best (And Worst) Foods for Candida
So you think you have candida, now what? A great place to start is with a diet that’s going to help bring your gut microbiome back into balance. Candida usually isn’t eradicated by diet alone, so in addition to diet changes, we recommend working with someone who can help you clear the infection with natural anti-fungals…
6 Reasons to Do A Liver Cleanse This Spring
It’s almost spring, which means it’s the perfect time for a liver cleanse! The liver is our most metabolically active and hardest-working organ in our bodies, responsible for carrying out over 500 functions. Some roles include filtering toxins and bacteria…
5 Ways to Lower Insulin & Improve Insulin Resistance Naturally
Insulin resistance has become an epidemic and chances are, unless you have diabetes, you've likely never heard of it. It's estimated that upwards of 50% of all US adults are insulin-resistant and that number is even higher in other countries. I talked about what it is in this article and today I'll unpack tools that you can use to lower insulin and begin to heal insulin-resistance naturally…
Fix PMS With These 6 Tips
Think you're destined to suffer when that time of the month comes around? Think again! PMS is not something we need to be taken out by every time our cycle starts. Here's how you can use functional nutrition to balance your hormones naturally and stop those dreaded PMS symptoms…