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What Is Sound Healing?

While we’re often inundated by noise, we might overlook the fact that sound can be therapeutic for the body and mind.

9 Ways to Develop an Attitude of Gratitude

Particularly these days, life is not without its challenges. We live in a time of global upheaval and chronic anxiety, and the prospect of navigating through it can seem daunting.

A Beginner’s Guide to Meditation

You may want to sit down while reading this.

10 Tips to Banish Blood Pressure Problems Naturally

So, you go for an annual check-up and your primary care doc slaps on the blood pressure cuff and then delivers the bad news. Your blood pressure, which has been steadily ticking up for years, has now crossed the threshold, into either borderline or bona fide hypertension.

The Skinny on Visceral Fat: It’s Health Implications & How to Get Rid of It

When we want to improve our health, be it for a new year’s resolution or enhanced longevity, many of us focus on weight loss.

Health Coach Tip – All About Zinc

Did you know that zinc’s benefits are wide-ranging and essential for the proper functioning of our bodies? Zinc plays a role in maintaining optimal health and wellness, from immune support to wound healing.

7 Signs That Your Mental Health Needs Attention

You know when a cold is coming on thanks to telltale symptoms like a sore throat, cough, or a stuffy nose. But you may not be quite so attuned to the signs of oncoming mental unwellness.

How Collagen Supports Healthy Skin

The most abundant protein in the body, collagen is a key component of skin, tendons, and ligaments. As the body ages, it makes less (and lower quality) collagen. This contributes to reduced elasticity and less fresh-looking skin.

Health Coach Tip – Oils For Hair Growth

Inspiring Words of Wisdom to Guide Your New Year

Welcome to 2024!

18 Ways to Find Hygge

Many of us crave sanctuary from our hectic lives, but we’re not sure how to find it — or whether it’s even possible. Enter hygge (pronounced “hoo-gah”), the Danish art of creating an atmosphere of coziness, warmth, and refuge. It’s the feeling “that we are safe, that we are shielded from the world and [can] allow ourselves to let our guard down,” notes Meik Wiking in The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living.

TOP 10 MOST POPULAR BLOGS OF 2023

Now’s a great time to look back at 2023 and think about what you want for the New Year.

How Vitamin C Supports Healthy Skin

Rediscovering Tea Tree Oil – and 8 Reasons to Stock Up

The deeper you go exploring the ins and outs of your own health, making health-enhancing tweaks becomes second nature.

Apolipoprotein B: The Crucial Cardiovascular Biomarker Everyone Should Be Measuring

If you are concerned about heart health, you’ve probably heard a lot of buzz about an important marker that is recently getting press from the functional medicine and biohacker community – ApoB – and it’s for a very good reason. Understanding ApoB is key for promoting optimal heart health and is a pivotal step in enhancing longevity.

How Can I Improve My Balance?

Try simple activities — like standing on one foot while brushing your teeth — to incorporate balance into your daily routine.

Health Coach Tip – Curb Your Cravings

Sometimes it feels like your cravings are driving your decisions. Clearly you didn’t mean to eat all the candy at work, or that whole dessert, or finish that bag of chips. When your food choices feel out of control, it’s time to set yourself up for success with these simple tips to curb cravings (aka the monster inside).

5 Ways Prebiotics Help Supercharge Your Health From Head to Toe

Regular readers of this blog are likely familiar with the idea of eating ‘probiotic’ foods and, when needed, also adding a probiotic supplement to the mix to support the health of your microbiome, aka, the community of billions of friendly bacteria that live in your gut.

9 Ways to Grow Your Friend Group at Any Age

There’s another key element that often gets overlooked in the anti-aging game – and that’s emotional well-being. Numerous studies have shown that neglecting emotional health, particularly when it comes to social connection, can speed up aging. Here’s some background on why you need to connect with others and how to grow your tribe no matter what your age –and a few pointers on how to go about it.

What Is Vitamin P?

Picture yourself sitting down to a beautiful table full of the foods you love most. Take your time (close your eyes if you’d like) and imagine:

Health Coach Tip – Post-Holiday Detox

Need a DIY detox after the holidays? Make an infusion or bitter herbal blend to cleanse your body.

Clean and Green Tips for Taming Household Toxins

Back in the day, many of us had concerns about office air quality – breathing in toxins eight hours a day in our hermetically-sealed downtown office cubes.

7 Ways to Put Vitamin D to Work for Your Winter Wellness

Ah, winter. Like it or loathe it, there’s no denying, it’s heading our way. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, sunlight will soon be in short supply. Not great news for our bodies which need sunlight to help us produce our own vitamin D supplies, but an...

Mastering Your Mood: The Transformative Power of Lifestyle Choices

We’ve all experienced those moments when life seems to be stuck in a never-ending loop, leaving us feeling unmotivated, uninspired, and in a perpetual rut. The sensation of being trapped in a monotonous cycle can weigh heavily on our emotional well-being....