Regulating Your Nervous System
Ever noticed that when your gut is off, your mood is off? There is a direct link between your gut health, specifically the microbiome, and your mood. Your nutrition plays an important role in your brain health and mood. We know specific nutrients that can help form neurotransmitters, the brain’s messengers, and how each can impact mood and brain function.
The Stress Response and Burnout
Ever noticed that when your gut is off, your mood is off? There is a direct link between your gut health, specifically the microbiome, and your mood. Your nutrition plays an important role in your brain health and mood. We know specific nutrients that can help form neurotransmitters, the brain’s messengers, and how each can impact mood and brain function.
The Gut-Brain Connection
Ever noticed that when your gut is off, your mood is off? There is a direct link between your gut health, specifically the microbiome, and your mood. Your nutrition plays an important role in your brain health and mood. We know specific nutrients that can help form neurotransmitters, the brain’s messengers, and how each can impact mood and brain function.
Understanding Inflammation
Chronic inflammation can be a major cause of symptoms such as fatigue, brain fog, joint and muscle pain,
Naturopathic Approaches to Optimal Digestive Health
The digestive tract is central to optimal health. The gut is responsible for breaking down and absorbing nutrients, from the nutritious food that we eat. It is also responsible for the removal of wastes from the body. Good digestion means the absence of discomfort, optimal absorption, and motility.
Smoking
Endothelial Damage from Inflammation
Last month, I discussed hypertension as a PHYSICAL IRRITANT on the arteries. Think of smoking as a CHEMICAL IRRITANT.
Metabolic Health
Are you Metabolically Healthy?
Metabolic Dysfunction is an exciting new term that we are using to describe your metabolic health which can be seen through body composition (the ratio of muscle to fat), early blood markers detecting imbalances and waist circumference.
Blood Sugar
What is insulin sensitivity versus insulin resistance?
When we eat carbohydrates, our pancreas secretes insulin.
Insulin tells the cells of our body to uptake glucose or sugar, removing it from our blood stream. When the cells listen to insulin’s message and respond by lowering our blood sugar, they are working well. Sugar moves out of our bloodstream into our cells. This is insulin sensitivity. This is what we want!
Sleep
The Physiology of Sleep
There are two key hormones involved in sleep – CORTISOL and MELATONIN. They govern our sleep-wake cycle, or our CIRCADIAN RHYTHM.
Melatonin
Melatonin is often referred to as the “sleep hormone” because it plays a central role in regulating the sleep-wake cycle. It is produced by the pineal gland in the brain in response to darkness and helps signal to the body that it is time to prepare for sleep.
Hypertension
Facts about Hypertension or High Blood Pressure
Why is High Blood Pressure, also called Hypertension, called “Silent”? To help us get a better understanding, here are some shocking facts about High Blood Pressure, from the World Health Organization.
An estimated 1.28 billion adults aged 30–79 worldwide have hypertension
An estimated 46% of adults with hypertension are UNAWARE they have it
Often, hypertension is silent, meaning there are NO SYMPTOMS