Stress-Reducing Lifestyle

A Healthy Lifestyle – be active, laugh, live with purpose, pursue your goals and dreams, spend time outside in nature and with family & friends, sleep well, get sunshine, exercise, avoid & reduce toxic substances, understand stress.

Is Exercise Before Breakfast Best?

What a great question! Growing up we were always told the best way to start a day is with a good breakfast. But when it comes to your morning exercise, is it the first important element of your morning routine?  Jeffrey N. Berube, DC of North Reading Chiropractic, shares some insight with us on this … Read more

Lifestyle is the most important means of maintaining health!

          Healthy Lifestyle Checklist Sunshine and time outdoors in nature (the Japanese call it “forest bathing” for health and balance) Sleep, especially maintaining your Circadian rhythm by sleeping in the dark and waking in the natural light Clean, whole foods unadulterated with chemicals Clean water and adequate hydration, using both water … Read more

Dangers Lurking in Your Medicine Cabinet

How many people do you know complain of back pain, knee pain, aches from old sports injuries or just overdoing it on occasion? It’s common practice for most people to reach for an over-the-counter-pain reliever. It’s equally common for health care providers to prescribe Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs, or NSAIDs for short, to be used long-term … Read more

Find Your Purpose…

The two most important days in your life are the day you where born and the day you find out why. Mark Twain

Transcription: The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. ~ Mark Twain

Inspiration to start your work week…

"The miracle isn't that I finished. the miracle is that I had the courage to start." John Bingham

Our staff who work here can attest to this. We believe in miracles! “This week my grandmother celebrated her 93rd birthday! After 5 weeks in a neck brace from cracking a bone in a fall, she is still feisty and independent, and still takes no drugs of any kind. She kept hoping for the best, … Read more

Inspiration – Natural Forces Heal

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease. Hippocrates

Natural Forces Heal. You do have this on your side. Remember, it is a resource when you seem to have nowhere else to turn – or want an easier place to turn.

Can Chewing Help Your Endocrine System?

In our fast paced society there is no time for chewing, we devour our food without giving it a second thought. What if chewing is needed by the body for more than just breaking down food? This is an excerpt from Lino Stanchich’s Power Eating Program book where he explains how chewing saved his dad’s life under … Read more

How can you recognize Adrenal Fatigue?

Adrenal Fatigue is stress-related and can cause different symptoms like a weakened immune system, exhaustion, tiredness, difficulty getting up in the morning and cravings for salty food. These are just a few symptoms. Adrenal Fatigue can be caused by chronic stress, the theory behind is that your adrenal glands are unable to keep pace with … Read more

Circulation and Lymph System Stimulation

Natural healing involves a number of techniques to get good results.  Proper nutrition and detoxification are important parts, but they can’t bring results without moving the body. Today let’s talk about the importance of moving. Why is it so important to move?  Why does it help our lymph system to exercise and with that our health?

  • The lymphatic system helps the immune system in removing and destroying waste, dead blood cells, toxins.
  • The lymphatic system absorbs fats and fat-soluble vitamins from the digestive system and delivers these nutrients to the cells of the body where they are used by the cells.
  • It also removes excess fluid, and waste products from the interstitial spaces between the cells.

But unlike blood which gets help from the heart to move around, the Lymphatic system doesn’t get any help and needs us to move so it can help our immune system and get rid of toxins.

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How to Eliminate Stress and Lose Weight

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stressed faceHave you ever wondered why so many people have trouble losing weight despite dieting, weight loss programs, prescription or over the counter drugs, exercise and supplements designed to help you lose weight? It’s amazing how this problem somehow evades solution. And there can be many reasons for weight gain but they usually have certain things in common.

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How to Recover From a Sugar Hangover

I’ve loved sugar my whole life and thought it was normal to constantly eat sugar even though it threw my body off balance. A normal day for me growing up involved eating chocolate-covered croissants for breakfast, a soda and cookies for lunch and sugar-covered cereal for a snack before a dinner of frozen chicken nuggets and crinkle-cut french fries. Notice a trend? Every few hours, when I would feel weak, shaky, fuzzy headed and irritable, I thought I was hungry and needed to eat something. I was right, I did need to eat something that nourished my body, but that’s not what I ate or thought of as normal food.

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