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…
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.
7 Reasons For Stubborn Weight That Just Won’t Budge
Weight loss is about SO much more than calories and exercise. There are likely missing factors you haven’t been aware of or are just not able to fully address without the help of an expert. Here are a few reasons…
How to Create Sustainable Healthy Habits in 2023
Today I’m sharing how you can create an environment and set up habits to see sustainable change in your health using a few tools based off the book Atomic Habits…
5 Steps to Make Clean Eating Sustainable in 2023
What do you think about yourself? Do you think of yourself as a person who eats unhealthy, who hates healthy foods or who can’t lose weight? Whatever story you have repeated to yourself or others for years needs to be replaced with who you are becoming…
6 Hormone-Friendly Christmas Alternatives & Tips
Christmas is always an exciting time! It’s the time of year we can slow down, make memories with our loved ones and enjoy all the things that come with this season. Here are some ways to enjoy the season without sabotaging your hormones!
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…
Our Top 9 Herbs & Foods for Parasites
Intestinal parasites are very real and surprisingly quite common. In previous blogs, we discussed some of the symptoms of parasites, including nagging gut issues that won’t seem to go away.
So how do we get rid of them?
Gut Issues, Insomnia & Skin Rashes? Test for Parasites
Have you had long-standing digestive issues like bloating, loose stools or abdominal pain? Have you been struggling with strange rashes, itchy skin or cystic acne? Do you have anemia or chronic fatigue? What about reactions to foods, mysterious joint pain, anxiety or trouble sleeping?
Parasites: How We Get Them & How To Prevent Them
There’s a saying in natural medicine that goes “if you’re breathing, you have parasites”. Now I get that might seem gross, but the fact is that we encounter different bugs, including parasites…
Are We Looking At Hypothyroidism Wrong?
With thyroid conditions on the rise, it’s important that we address the root cause of these conditions, not simply the symptoms. Why are millions of women (and men) dealing with hidden thyroid conditions and what can we do to heal…
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.