More Than Just Beauty Sleep Are you proud that you sleep only a few hours each night? Do you think you’re the model of efficiency because you “only need four hours of sleep?” Maybe you know you need more sleep, but don’t make it a priority because you don’t know how critical it is to […]
Food can be the best medicine or the slowest poison. Most of what is in your local supermarket isn’t what I or your great-grandma would call food, and the remainder is full of pesticides, herbicides and other additives that have no place in our bodies. Fortunately, organic foods are showing up on supermarket shelves, but […]
In the last article we learned about leaky gut and its health consequences. But wait, there’s more… Gut/Brain Connection Last week I mentioned how one potential source of gut damage is brain trauma. You may also recall that leaky gut plays a role in brain issues, including depression and brain fog. So how does this […]
Stress and Your Gut (Part 2) Last week we learned how stress can affect your digestion. That’s just the beginning of the story of what stress can do your intestines. Stress can come from within, as a reaction to everyday pressures, which raises our levels of stress hormones. As I mentioned in the first post […]
This is the second article in a series about stress and your health. Catch up with the first article here. Last week we learned about the role of your adrenal glands in keeping up your energy so you can keep up with life. Did you know that these two little glands are important to our […]
Has your tolerance for stress dwindled lately? Are you unable to function without coffee? Do you feel burned out? You bad attitude and lack of energy may not be all your fault — it may be your stress hormones. Your high stress levels are sapping your energy! We have two adrenal glands, which are walnut-sized […]