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  • Feeling Anxious? - The Answer May be Nature
    2020-05-05

    Do you ever question if your health is being helped or hindered by technology? With modern technology advancing, there is a diminished need to leave your home, let alone get off your couch.

  • Climate Change Is Impacting Human Health
    2020-05-05

    Climate change is possibly the most important issue of the twenty-first century. The long-term changes in the temperature of our planet will continue to impact not only our environments, but also our food and our health. These small changes are not noticeable on a daily basis, but as the years go by, the steady change over the years cannot be ignored.

  • Beyond Diabetes - The Role of Toxins in the Development of Type 2 Diabetes
    2020-05-05

    Diabetes is a common condition of the modern world, with rates of prevalence on the rise. The International Diabetes Federation estimates that in 2019, 463 million adults currently had diabetes, with a projection for this to increase to 700 million people in the next 25 years. For Canadian adults, diabetes is the number one cause of blindness, end-stage renal disease, and amputations unrelated to trauma.

  • Antiviral Effects of Quercetin and Related Compounds
    2020-04-13

    The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March 11. As of March 31, 2020, the coronavirus had rapidly spread to more than 850,000 people in 202 countries and caused ca. 42,000 deaths. Coronavirus new cases and death toll are increasing exponentially.

  • Fever and Thermal Therapy Why Heat Is a Good Thing
    2020-04-13

    Have you met the people that tell you, quite proudly, they never, ever, ever get sick? Do you find yourself feeling just a wee bit jealous? Well, feel jealous no more! Exercising our immune system with a good fever may feel yucky, but it is great for all kinds of reasons.

  • Diet and Osteoporosis - Naturopathic Perspectives
    2020-04-13

    Bone is our main structural support system. It allows us to protect our vital organs, facilitates movement, and creates a scaffold for blood vessels and nerves. In additional to the structural functions, bone has important metabolic and endocrine functions as well.

  • Cosmeceuticals for Hyperpigmentation - Naturopathic Perspectives
    2020-04-13

    Although it has been fraught with debate, and even disdain on occasion, the use of airbrushing of photos emanating from the marketing world of skin care and beauty tells us one thing: our society has a desire for evenness in skin appearance.

  • Brain Health and How to Grow Neurons - An Evidence-Based Discussion
    2020-04-13

    How to grow neurons—yes, you read that right!
    There is a protein produced and used in our nervous system that helps the neurons grow in our brain, and which helps our brains work better, faster, stronger. In this article, we talk about things we can do to help increase the levels of this protein, and the research behind it.

  • Adult Eczema - Naturopathic Approaches
    2020-04-13

    Itchy skin, dryness, redness, and cracking—uncomfortable signs of an eczema flare-up that can range from mild to having a significant impact on quality of life. Corticosteroid creams can do a fine job of targeting symptoms and inflammation associated with eczema, although below are some suggestions to get to the root cause and prevent future flare-ups.

  • The Gut Microbiome and Health Naturopathic Perspectives
    2020-03-09

    The human gastrointestinal tract (GIT) alone contains 1014 microorganisms including bacteria, viruses, and fungi. That’s approximately 100 times more microbial cells than human cells, which shows how much of an impact they can have on human health.

  • Seasonal Affective Disorder
    2020-03-09

    Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a type of depression that is only present during the winter months. This differs from clinical depression, which has no seasonal pattern. SAD also tends to improve when the springtime occurs.

  • How to Keep Your Family Healthy During Cold and Flu Season - Naturopathic Perspectives
    2020-03-09

    The viruses that cause colds and the flu can be spread easily by coughing and sneezing. While there is no way to guarantee you won’t get sick this winter, there are things you can do to reduce the severity of your sickness.

  • Five Herbs to Start Your Own Medicinal Garden - Herbal Essentials
    2020-03-09

    Botanical medicine, or the study and use of plants as medicine, is one of my favourite healing modalities as a naturopathic doctor. I especially love using plants that are widely available and that people are familiar with. I find that knowing and feeling connected with and excited about any medicine I am taking seems to make it that much more effective.

  • Anxiety and Depression Due to Sleep Deprivation? Exploring the Links Between Lack of Sleep and Mental Health
    2020-03-09

    The link between sleep and mental health has been seen and studied for decades by doctors and researchers. People who don’t get their regular 7–9 hours of sleep per night are at 10× greater risk of depression and 17× greater risk of anxiety. To go one step further, the more frequently one wakes in the night due to insomnia, the higher the chances of developing depression.[1] Before considering pharmaceutical sleeping aids, it is important that we consider all aspects of health that can be contributing to a sleep disorder.

  • Reversing Metabolic Syndrome Using Natural Medicine
    2020-02-12

    Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of risk factors that increase one’s chances of developing serious illnesses in the future. Metabolic syndrome doubles the chance of developing cardiovascular disease while increasing the risk of diabetes, fatty liver, and several types of cancers.[1][2]