Category Archives: Environmental Medicine

Not Your Typical Allergy

    What do avocados, bananas, spinach, and some probiotics have in common?  Well, for most you’d think, all healthy foods, rich in essential nutrients and great additions to your diet for living a healthy lifestyle right?  For most, yes, for … Continue reading

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Grow Your Own 🌱

7 Reasons to Grow Your own organic vegetable garden     During the last few decades there has been a change towards mechanization and homogenization of farming.  This type of farming relies heavily on the use of pesticides, additives, herbicides, … Continue reading

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The Big Chill

Cold showers anyone?  I put it out there last month to join me in a challenge to make it 14 days with a cold shower, meditation and breathing exercises… did you do it??  With the exception of this morning which … Continue reading

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Human Test Subjects

Genetically Modified Organism (GMO’s) is a common term we hear these days.  They (and by they I’m mostly talking about Monsanto) are beginning to take over our natural food sources by chemically as well as genetically altering them beyond their … Continue reading

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Treating Eczema

As if people suffering from Eczema really want more to deal with, a study recently published in the British Journal of Dermatology claims that using emollient skin lotions that contain Sodium Laurel Sulfates (SLS) on eczematous skin might exacerbate the … Continue reading

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