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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....

Dr. Frank’s Fall Fortification Plan: 19 Ways to Stop Winter Ills Before they Start

Though we’re still a few weeks away from winter’s official start, seasonal ills are on the march, so the smart money is on prepping your body for the onslaught. The mission? To make yourself an inhospitable location for viral and bacterial opportunists attempting to take up residence – and to strengthen all your defenses so you can repel colds, flu, RSV and whatever Covid-19 variants may pop up over the next few months. How hard seasonal ills will hit this year is anyone’s guess, but now – not November or December – is the best time to focus on building up your resistance. Here’s where to start…

30 Timely Tips to Send Autumnal Allergies Packing

For millions of people, autumn, perhaps the most gorgeous time of the year, can be a season to brace for rather than embrace. Experienced through a pair of itchy, watery eyes and a sneezy nose, the charms of the season’s colors and warm days and cool nights can be elusive. The good news is, you can tamp down much of the allergy-induced misery if you get on the defensive early in the season with a multi-pronged plan of action. So, instead of bombing your system with brain-fogging, sleep-inducing over-the-counter and prescription drugs, I advise my patients to try a more holistic approach so they can autumn with a clearer head and less wheezing and sneezing.

What Is Brain Fog?

Having trouble concentrating? Feeling confused and forgetful? You may be the victim of what’s become known as brain fog.

8 Tips for Planning a Staycation

Given the economic and environmental costs of travel, sometimes the most ethical choice is to stay home. But, that doesn’t mean you can’t expand your horizons.

​​Unveiling the Connection Between Fatigue and Mitochondrial Dysfunction

Fatigue is a word that resonates with millions worldwide, describing a state of constant tiredness that goes beyond the typical weariness we all experience. But what if there's more to this exhaustion than meets the eye?

Health Coach Tip – Healthy Oils For The Skin

Let’s explore the benefits of popular healthy oils for skin, their unique properties, and which skin types they are best suited for.

9 Ways to Tame Anxiety Naturally

To put it mildly, we live in an anxiety-triggering era which can do a number on your mental and physical health. With life in an almost constant state of rapid, and occasionally head-spinning change, it can be a challenge for even the mentally healthiest among us to keep anxiety at bay. Doom and gloom flooding the news, social media and our everyday conversations, saturating our psyches 24/7, small wonder people are on edge these days. The good news is that while anxiety may be almost impossible to completely avoid, there are a number of toxin-and-drug-free non-addictive ways to tame the beast. Here are a few of my favorite healthy approaches to help take it down a few notches.